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 Ken, and Ken is six months status post lumbar fusion and has complaints of

persistent pain and often declines to perform basic core exercises. The therapist would like to

change the patient's perception of pain while

teaching effective coping methods. Which are the following principles would be the most effective?

So we have A, cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT. B is operant conditioning. C is classical conditioning and D is positive reinforcement. So let's

jump up to the top of this question. We want to break this out. It's kind of a lengthy one.

Right. I'm going to break it out. It seems to be a lot about these psych principles. And so you

got to know quite a bit in order to get this

type of question correct with confidence. Let's jump into it. Ken, there's six months status

post, lumbar fusion, pretty straightforward there, and has complaints of persistent pain.

And oftentimes, hold on, let me stop, persistent pain is usually just another

term for chronic pain in a lot of cases. All right. So if they say constant pain, that's not

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