Therapeutic Ultrasound
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Danica is treating a patient post MVA with lower back pain.
The physical therapist is challenged with determining the treatment area to ensure proper therapeutic dosing.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files, two 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 |
| 0:12.2 | prep coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching Program. |
| 0:18.4 | 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 physical therapist, |
| 0:32.7 | Danica. And Danica is treating a patient with lower back pain after a recent MVA. |
| 0:40.2 | The therapist selects ultrasound to reduce soft tissue inflammation and improve fluid dynamics. |
| 0:47.9 | The therapist would like to ensure the affected area is receiving the proper dosage of ultrasound. |
| 0:55.2 | The treatment area should be no greater than A, two times the size of the ERA, effective radiating area, |
| 1:04.6 | B, equal to the size of the ERA, C, eight times the size of the ERA. |
| 1:13.7 | And D, four times the size of the ERA. |
| 1:19.3 | All right. |
| 1:19.8 | So we got quite a bit of things here, quite a bit of answer choices that are all talking about, |
| 1:25.5 | whether it's a particular size of the effective |
| 1:28.6 | radiating area so you have to know this principle of effective radiating area let's go up to |
| 1:35.8 | the top and let's break this down danica is treating a patient with lower back pain after a recent |
| 1:43.5 | mvA that's pretty straightforward right i'm not gathering a lot of treating a patient with lower back pain after a recent MBA. |
| 1:44.8 | That's pretty straightforward, right? |
| 1:46.6 | I'm not gathering a lot of information from that first sentence. |
| 1:50.2 | I'm not really playing around too much with that. |
| 1:52.6 | Now, I talked to some people this past week about a strategy that I use. |
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