I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide.

It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE.

Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn. And you'll see

the life I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that

allows me to change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast

to give you simple, actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions.

All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream.

So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life you love, you're in the right place.

Enjoy the show.

For this week's clinical file, we have Jerry, and Jerry is a patient with type 2 diabetes who has been prescribed

metformin to manage his blood glucose levels. The physical therapist understands that

metformin's primary function is to, A, stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin b decrease the

liver's production of glucose c increase the sensitivity of insulin receptors on cells and d is slow the

absorption of sugar from the intestines all right let's go to the top of this question.

Yeah, you heard it. This is a medication question. I know for a lot of us, we're not pharmacists.

Even when we're in PT school and we're going through pharmacology, we're like, come on. Do we really

got to know all these things? The answer to that is yeah, because there's certain medications that the patient can take that can influence your PT session, and we need to be aware of that.

So let's go into this question today. We're going to absolutely destroy this thing, okay? Destroy it. And then what I'm going to do

is I got a free cheat sheet for you. I'm going to give you my top five. Actually, you know what,

top 10 medications to know for the MPTE in a cheat sheet form. So you got it. Does that sound good?

All right. Let's go into this question. We have Jerry, a patient with type 2 diabetes, has been prescribed metformin to manage his blood glucose levels.

Let's go ahead and stop there for a minute.

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