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Quiz: Strengthening (PTA version)

This quiz will assess your knowledge of principles of resistance exercise for strengthening, including muscle fiber types, the overload principle, adaptation, alignment and stabilization.

1.

The physical therapist assistant (PTA) is aware that the patient will likely experience Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), and may not want to continue the prescribed exercises for fear of the pain. In order to increase the chances that the patient will comply with the exercise prescription, the PTA should:

Question 1 of 10

2.

Which of the following scenarios BEST describes a situation in which it is acceptable to continue with resistance exercises?

Question 2 of 10

3.

Which of the following adaptations to resistance exercise BEST describes a change that can be attributed to the neural system?

Question 3 of 10

4.

Which of the following BEST describes the point at which a muscle cannot shorten any further?

Question 4 of 10

5.

All of the following factors will influence the tension created by a skeletal muscle, EXCEPT:

Question 5 of 10

6.

Which of the following definitions is MOST correct when describing muscle power?

Question 6 of 10

7.

Which of the following terms BEST describes the principle that if muscle performance is to improve, a load that exceeds the metabolic capacity of the muscle must be applied?

Question 7 of 10

8.

A patient is attempting to perform a supine, bilateral straight-leg raise to increase muscle performance in her abdominal muscles. However, she is unable to perform the activity without excessive lumbar extension as the legs are raised off of the support surface. Which of the following BEST describes this clinical situation?

Question 8 of 10

9.

The use of a 1-repetition maximum (1-RM) test is inappropriate in some patient populations. Which of the following patient populations represents the MOST appropriate group with which one would use a 1-RM test?

Question 9 of 10

10.

In a patient with poor lower extremity muscular endurance, the physical therapist assistant should focus on interventions designed to increase the percentage of which type of muscle fiber, so that the patient can return to walking several miles a day?

Question 10 of 10

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