Transtibial Amputation
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Rodney underwent a right transtibial amputation and is being fitted for a patellar-tendon bearing socket.
The physical therapist is challenged with understanding the design of the patellar-tendon bearing socket, pressure-tolerant areas, and pressure-sensitive areas.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the NPTE Clinical Files is brought to you by the NPTE test strategy playbook. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey, PTs, is your repeat score less than 75%? And if it is, when you review your practice exams, |
| 0:12.6 | do you find several questions that you had the knowledge to, but you still got the question wrong? |
| 0:18.2 | Listen, you're not alone and you might have a test taking strategy |
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| 0:29.1 | about the topics that you know. Visit destroy the NPTE.com. You are now tuning in to the MPTE clinical files to mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:41.7 | week by week. |
| 0:43.3 | Thank you for tuning in to the MPT clinical files. |
| 0:46.1 | My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT prep coach, the founder of the PT hustle and the creator |
| 0:50.6 | of the NPT prep success course 2.0. |
| 0:53.5 | And for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient Rodney. |
| 0:57.9 | And Rodney underwent a right transtibial amputation three months ago as a complication |
| 1:04.2 | of his type 2 diabetes. |
| 1:06.0 | The patient was recently fitted for a pateller tendon bearing socket and instructed to observe |
| 1:12.6 | where any signs of redness develop. |
| 1:15.6 | Which of the following areas is the most likely to develop redness in a properly fitted socket? |
| 1:21.6 | So we have A, anterior tibial crest, B, fibular shaft, C, tibial condiles, or D, distal tibia, and fibula. |
| 1:33.6 | All right, so for this case, you see that we have our patient Rodney. He's coming to us with |
| 1:37.9 | this right trans-tibial amputation. He's had this for about three months now, and it's a |
| 1:42.8 | complication of his type 2 diabetes. |
| 1:45.0 | This first sentence is pretty straightforward. |
| 1:47.3 | We know that the right transibial amputation, something we want to be familiar with, we know |
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