Aging & The Body
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Yien lee is an 85-year-old patient that is being treated for functional decline. Which of the following is a normal physiological response to aging?
A. Decreased skin turgor
B. Epiphyseal plate recalcification
C. Increased FEV1
D. Increased cardiac output
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn, and you'll see the life |
| 0:22.4 | I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to |
| 0:27.8 | change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.3 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. Enjoy the show. For this week's clinical |
| 0:55.9 | file, we have Yen Li, and Yen Li is an 85-year-old patient that is being treated for functional |
| 1:01.7 | decline. Which of the following is a normal physiological response to aging? So we have A, decreased |
| 1:08.8 | skin, Turgar, B, epiphypysiol plate recalcification, C, increased |
| 1:15.7 | FV1, and D is increased cardiac output. All right. Let's go up to the top of this question. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm super excited to knock this one down because there's not a lot of information in here. And you really |
| 1:28.5 | have to have the knowledge to really feel confident getting this one right. Now, here's the thing. |
| 1:34.4 | I do expect questions like this to come up on the NPTE. And so this is the reason why I made |
| 1:39.2 | this type of question. Cool. But don't worry. We're going to go through it. And I'm going to teach you a little bit to hold on to until we get to the NPT. Does that sound good? All right. Let's go ahead and knock this one down. It says Yen Lee is an 85-year-old patient that is being treated for functional decline. Pretty straightforward sentence. We know we got a patient who is in that elderly group and they're being treated for functional decline. Pretty straightforward sentence. We know we got a patient who is in that elderly group, |
| 2:03.3 | and they're being treated for functional decline. Now, functional decline can mean a few different |
| 2:08.2 | things, depending on the patient. It could be problems with their IADLs, instrumental |
| 2:13.5 | activities of daily living, or it could be a problem with just basic ADLs. |
| 2:19.1 | Does that really matter here? |
| 2:20.9 | Not really. |
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