Resna ATP 2024/25 Prep Test | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated
2024/2025 Comprehensive Questions A+ Graded Answers | With Expert Solutions
Spinal cord injuries can result from: - Disease, Trauma, Tumors, and congenital or Acquired deformities
Spinal Shock
A: is Always permanent
B: results in increased blood flow to the injury site
C: usually last 3-4 weeks
D: contributes to further damage of spinal cord - Answer: B: Results in increased blood flow to the injury
site and C: Usually last 3-4 weeks
Directly after a spinal cord injury it is imperative that: - the client is provided with a loaner or rental
wheelchair until a consistent functional level is establish, client is evaluated within two weeks to
determine their long term needs for Mobility needs
Hyperreflexia or Autonomic Dysreflexia - Is a life threatening response to noxious stimuli occurring
below the level of injury, Can include symptoms such as severe headache, decreased pulse and
excessive perspiration.
How many cervical vertebrae in spinal cord? - Answer: C7
True or False: A halo vest is a traction device that immobilizes the spine and secured to the skull with
steel. - Answer: True
True or False: Persons with a complete spinal cord injury above C4 level will almost always require some
type of respiratory equipment. - Answer: True
True or False: A person with an incomplete spinal cord injury cannot have any sensation below the level
of their injury. - Answer: True
True or False: A person with a complete spinal cord injury will have no sensation or motor function in
the sacral segments S4-S5. - Answer: False
,True or False: Spasticity is rare in clients with spinal cord injuries. - Answer: False
In Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy weakness first occur in: - Proximal Muscles
A Motor Neuron disease - Attacks the neurons which control voluntary muscles, Attacks the neurons
which control involuntary muscles.
Myotonic muscular dystrophy is unique among muscular dystrophies because: - It can affect voluntary
and involuntary muscles
ALS "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" aka: Lou Gehrig's is usually fatal within: - Answer: 3 to 5 Years
Muscular dystrophies: - Are always Genetic, Always eventually result in the patient being wheelchair
confined.
Children with SMA "Spinal Muscular Atrophy": - usually have average to above average intelligence
How many types of childhood SMA "Spinal Muscular Atrophy" exist? - Answer: 3
SMA Type 1 - "also called Werdnig-Hoffman disease": is a severe form of the disorder that is evident at
birth or within the first few months of life.
SMA Type 2 - is characterized by muscle weakness that develops in children between ages 6 and 12
months.
SMA Type 3 - "also called Kugelberg-Welander disease or juvenile type": has milder features that
typically develop between early childhood and adolescence.
How many thoracic vertebrae are there on spinal column? - Answer: 12
, which of the following diagnoses are most likely to result in a patient moving directly from ambulation
to power wheelchair? - ALS "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" aka: Lou Gehrig's Disease
DMD "Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy" - occurs primarily in boys, It is caused by an alteration "mutation"
in a gene, called the DMD gene that can be inherited in families in an X-linked recessive fashion. have
progressive loss of muscle function and weakness, which begins in the lower limbs.
CMT "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease" - aka: "hereditary sensory and motor neuropathy". This means that
the disease runs in families and causes problems with the sensory and motor nerves, the nerves that run
from the arms and legs to the spinal cord and brain.
A person who has dysarthria: - Will be difficult to understand
A X-linked genetic disease: - Can only be inherited by from the mother
Males with DMD "Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy" normally live: - Until their late teens or early twenties
A Person with FA or FRDA "Friedreich's Ataxia" is most likely to die from: - Heart Failure or Heart Disease
is the most common
True or False: Babies born with MMD "Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy" will not present with Myotonic
when they are infants? - Answer: True
True or False: Intellect is not affected in persons who have ALS "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" aka: Lou
Gehrig's Disease - Answer: True
How many Lumbar vertebrae in spinal cord? - Answer: L5
True or False: this is way more than I ever wanted to know about Neuromuscular Diseases! - Answer:
False
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