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NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Exercise Intensity Measures

NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Kyle Rice

Health & Fitness

4.9631 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Eric recently had a cardiac transplant and has been cleared for exercise by his medical doctor.  

The physical therapist is challenged with determining the most appropriate means of measuring the patient's exercise intensity. 

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0:00.0

You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files to mock MPTE-based questions told and solved

0:07.0

week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT Clinical Files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT

0:12.3

PrEPP Coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching

0:17.3

Program. And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific

0:22.4

question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to

0:27.7

get that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient Eric. And Eric underwent

0:33.6

cardiac transplantation and has been cleared for closely monitored exercise.

0:39.6

The therapist would like to safely monitor the patient's exercise intensity during each session.

0:46.7

The most effective measure for this patient is.

0:53.4

So we have A, rate of perceived exertion rpe b heart rate

0:59.3

c blood pressure and then d metabolic equivalent or metz so let's go ahead and start

1:07.1

taking down this case again we're looking at some exercise intensities so we have

1:11.8

Eric and he underwent cardiac transplantation all right so this is something that you need to be

1:16.0

ready for on the MPTE you need to know what is all involved with this this procedure and the

1:23.2

certain things that happen afterwards to your patient as far as how they respond to exercise

1:29.5

now, how they respond to just general movement, all right, the type of medications that they're

1:35.2

on.

1:35.5

You should be aware of those things.

1:38.0

Now it says Eric underwent a cardiac transportation and has been clear for closely monitored

1:42.3

exercise.

1:42.9

Okay.

1:43.4

We know that this patient's at

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