Wheelchairs, Ramps, & ADA Guidelines
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Are you looking for an awesome cheatsheet that reviews the facts to know about wheelchairs and ramps for the NPTE?
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Heather is preparing discharge plans for a patient with a C8 spinal cord injury. Based on the general guidelines for wheelchair accessibility in the home, which of the following is NOT recommended?
- Ramp slope 1:12 ratio
- Ramp width 32 inches
- Door width 34 inches
- Ramp landing platform 5x5ft2
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn. And you'll see the life I |
| 0:22.5 | have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to change |
| 0:28.2 | lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.4 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.4 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. |
| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:57.2 | For this week's clinical file, |
| 1:04.3 | we have Heather, and Heather is preparing discharge plans for a patient with a C-8 spinal cord injury. Based upon the general guidelines for wheelchair accessibility in the home, which of the following is not recommended? |
| 1:13.6 | So we have a ramp slope at 1 to 12 ratio. |
| 1:19.6 | B is ramp width at 32 inches. |
| 1:24.6 | We have C, which is door width at 34 inches. We have D, which is ramp landing platform at 5 by 5 feet squared. |
| 1:35.4 | All right. Y'all heard me kind of stumble with that A. Doesn't mean it's the right answer, the wrong answer. |
| 1:41.3 | I don't know. For some reason, when I was reading it, I was like, ramp slope at one to, am I saying that right? One to 12 ratio? Okay, sounds good. Cool. |
| 1:48.8 | Let's go up to the top of the question. We have Heather is preparing discharge plans for a patient |
| 1:55.0 | with a C8 spinal cord injury. Pretty straightforward, right? Patient is discharging from someplace whether it's |
| 2:02.7 | impatient we don't know it's not important but the patient has c8 spinal cord injury i don't really think |
| 2:09.6 | that this has much to do with the question to be honest with you as far as whether we're going to |
| 2:14.8 | choose one answer over the other so i'm not going to entertain C8 spinal cord |
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