You are now tuning in to the MPTE clinical files to mock MPTE-based questions told and solved

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

prep coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching Program.

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

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

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

being evaluated in a neurological recovery unit after a sudden onset of gait and limb ataxia.

The patient has impaired pinprick and thermal sensation on the left side of the face, but diminished

pain and thermal sensation over 50% of the body on the contralateral side.

Which of the following conditions is the most likely present?

So we have A, left cerebral infarction, B, acute inflammatory demilinating polyneuropathy, C, left lateral

medullary stroke, and D is hemisection injury of the spinal cord.

All right, y'all.

So let's go ahead up to the top of this puppy.

If you're having trouble with neurological differential, you know, this is the type of question

for you to practice with.

Let's work through it together.

Again, Danny is being evaluated in a neurological recovery unit after a sudden onset of gait and limitaxia.

So at the beginning here, I'm going to go ahead and stop, slow up a little bit.

Neurological recovery unit, that doesn't really help me with this question much,

but where it says after a sudden onset of gait and limitaxia, that's interesting,

because that starts to make me consider some

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