PEAT Exam 3
PEAT EXAM 3 NEWEST 2025 COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS)|ALREADY GRADED A+
1. To conduct an experimental study on pain in postsurgical orthopedic patients, a physical
therapist randomly assigns patients into 2 groups. One group is treated with transcutaneous
electrical nerve stimulation, heat, and exercise; the second receives heat and exercise only. In
this experimental design, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is the:
A. continuous variable.
B. dependent variable
C. discrete variable
D. independent variable. - ANSWER-D
The independent variable can be thought of as the cause or treatment and the dependent
variable can be thought of as the effect or response. In this case the TENS is the treatment or
independent variable. Continuous and discrete variables are methods of quantifying variables
1. It is important to perform cool-down exercises immediately following a general aerobic
exercise program PRIMARILY in order to prevent:
A. venous pooling.
B. cardiac arrhythmia.
C. decreased body temperature
D. muscle tightening. - ANSWER-A
During aerobic exercise, there is vascular dilation that occurs in order to optimize blood flow
and the venous system relies on muscular pumping in order to return blood back to the heart.
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Without a cool-down period, there would be no muscular pumping and therefore blood would
pool in the venous system. Cardiac arrhythmia may occur as well, but is less likely in someone
without cardiac disease. Cessation of activity by itself would result in a gradual decrease in body
temperature and specific exercises are not necessary. Muscle tightening may occur as a result of
metabolites accumulating in the circulatory system, but this would occur as a result of the
venous pooling
1. The intervention for a patient who has right sciatic pain caused by piriformis compression
should NOT include:
A. instruction in mild self-stretching in sitting with the right hip and knee flexed and pressure
applied in the medial direction to the distal thigh with the left upper extremity.
B. contract-relax exercises to the hip external rotators performed with the patient sidelying on
the left and the right hip and knee positioned in 90° of flexion
C. active resistive strengthening exercises to the piriformis with the patient prone and the knee
flexed.
D. application of cold to the area of sciatic nerve irritability. - ANSWER-C
The piriformis muscle functions as an external rotator of the hip, and it is thought that a tight
piriformis muscle may compress the sciatic nerve causing pain. Passive internal rotation and
resisted external rotation may be painful. Intervention would call for stretching of the piriformis
muscle, not strengthening it. Modalities such as ice may also be helpful to decrease the
inflammation.
1. A physical therapist is assigned the planning and implementation of physical therapy service
for all members of a community. The therapist's FIRST step should be to:
A. develop a brochure for distribution to the community.
B. organize a health fair to provide screening for the community.
C. evaluate existing services and community resources.
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D. initiate contacts in the medical community to establish prescriptive relationships. - ANSWER-
C
The most appropriate first step (pre-planning) would be to evaluate existing services within the
community and work out a budget for the project. Options A and B, although important, are
things that would most likely be done after the practice is up and running. Option D may be
done early on in the planning process, but would follow Option C.
1. A patient is referred to physical therapy reporting severe pain in the right hip and groin area,
which increases during walking. The patient reports tenderness when the therapist palpates the
area over the right greater trochanter. The MOST likely cause of the patient's signs and
symptoms is:
A. sacroiliac joint derangement.
B. a hip fracture.
C. a strain of the adductor longus muscle.
D. hip bursitis - ANSWER-D
Signs and symptoms of hip bursitis include the following: severe pain over the bursa area, with
pain aggravated by active motion including activities such as walking. Signs and symptoms of a
sacroiliac joint derangement include pain directly over the region of the joint and in the low
back, in addition to pain with walking. Signs and symptoms of a hip fracture will include the
following: severe pain in the groin area and tenderness occurs in the area anterior to the
femoral neck. An adductor longus muscle strain would not cause tenderness over the greater
trochanter
1. When working with neurological patients to ensure that physical therapy services are
adequately documented, it is MOST important to record changes in:
A. muscle tone.
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B. functional abilities.
C. cognitive status.
D. quality of movement - ANSWER-B
All documentation about PT services should readily translate the physical findings (impairments)
into functional abilities/limitations.
1. A patient has right hemiparesis resulting from a traumatic brain injury. When assessing motor
control in the right lower extremity with the patient standing, the physical therapist finds that
the patient cannot extend the hip while flexing the knee or flex the hip while extending the
knee. In which of the following functional activities will this problem be MOST apparent?
A. Shifting weight while standing
B. Walking sideways
C. Walking backward
D. Moving from a sitting position to a standing position - ANSWER-C
Of the four options, backward walking is the only one that requires hip extension with
concurrent knee flexion and hip flexion with knee extension
1. A physical therapist examining wrist-joint play finds restriction in the direction indicated by
the arrow. To address the restriction, the therapist should include an intervention to increase
which motion of the index finger (2nd digit)?
A. Flexion
B. Extension
C. Abduction
D. Rotation - ANSWER-A
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PEAT EXAM 3 NEWEST 2025 COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS)|ALREADY GRADED A+
1. To conduct an experimental study on pain in postsurgical orthopedic patients, a physical
therapist randomly assigns patients into 2 groups. One group is treated with transcutaneous
electrical nerve stimulation, heat, and exercise; the second receives heat and exercise only. In
this experimental design, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is the:
A. continuous variable.
B. dependent variable
C. discrete variable
D. independent variable. - ANSWER-D
The independent variable can be thought of as the cause or treatment and the dependent
variable can be thought of as the effect or response. In this case the TENS is the treatment or
independent variable. Continuous and discrete variables are methods of quantifying variables
1. It is important to perform cool-down exercises immediately following a general aerobic
exercise program PRIMARILY in order to prevent:
A. venous pooling.
B. cardiac arrhythmia.
C. decreased body temperature
D. muscle tightening. - ANSWER-A
During aerobic exercise, there is vascular dilation that occurs in order to optimize blood flow
and the venous system relies on muscular pumping in order to return blood back to the heart.
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Without a cool-down period, there would be no muscular pumping and therefore blood would
pool in the venous system. Cardiac arrhythmia may occur as well, but is less likely in someone
without cardiac disease. Cessation of activity by itself would result in a gradual decrease in body
temperature and specific exercises are not necessary. Muscle tightening may occur as a result of
metabolites accumulating in the circulatory system, but this would occur as a result of the
venous pooling
1. The intervention for a patient who has right sciatic pain caused by piriformis compression
should NOT include:
A. instruction in mild self-stretching in sitting with the right hip and knee flexed and pressure
applied in the medial direction to the distal thigh with the left upper extremity.
B. contract-relax exercises to the hip external rotators performed with the patient sidelying on
the left and the right hip and knee positioned in 90° of flexion
C. active resistive strengthening exercises to the piriformis with the patient prone and the knee
flexed.
D. application of cold to the area of sciatic nerve irritability. - ANSWER-C
The piriformis muscle functions as an external rotator of the hip, and it is thought that a tight
piriformis muscle may compress the sciatic nerve causing pain. Passive internal rotation and
resisted external rotation may be painful. Intervention would call for stretching of the piriformis
muscle, not strengthening it. Modalities such as ice may also be helpful to decrease the
inflammation.
1. A physical therapist is assigned the planning and implementation of physical therapy service
for all members of a community. The therapist's FIRST step should be to:
A. develop a brochure for distribution to the community.
B. organize a health fair to provide screening for the community.
C. evaluate existing services and community resources.
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D. initiate contacts in the medical community to establish prescriptive relationships. - ANSWER-
C
The most appropriate first step (pre-planning) would be to evaluate existing services within the
community and work out a budget for the project. Options A and B, although important, are
things that would most likely be done after the practice is up and running. Option D may be
done early on in the planning process, but would follow Option C.
1. A patient is referred to physical therapy reporting severe pain in the right hip and groin area,
which increases during walking. The patient reports tenderness when the therapist palpates the
area over the right greater trochanter. The MOST likely cause of the patient's signs and
symptoms is:
A. sacroiliac joint derangement.
B. a hip fracture.
C. a strain of the adductor longus muscle.
D. hip bursitis - ANSWER-D
Signs and symptoms of hip bursitis include the following: severe pain over the bursa area, with
pain aggravated by active motion including activities such as walking. Signs and symptoms of a
sacroiliac joint derangement include pain directly over the region of the joint and in the low
back, in addition to pain with walking. Signs and symptoms of a hip fracture will include the
following: severe pain in the groin area and tenderness occurs in the area anterior to the
femoral neck. An adductor longus muscle strain would not cause tenderness over the greater
trochanter
1. When working with neurological patients to ensure that physical therapy services are
adequately documented, it is MOST important to record changes in:
A. muscle tone.
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B. functional abilities.
C. cognitive status.
D. quality of movement - ANSWER-B
All documentation about PT services should readily translate the physical findings (impairments)
into functional abilities/limitations.
1. A patient has right hemiparesis resulting from a traumatic brain injury. When assessing motor
control in the right lower extremity with the patient standing, the physical therapist finds that
the patient cannot extend the hip while flexing the knee or flex the hip while extending the
knee. In which of the following functional activities will this problem be MOST apparent?
A. Shifting weight while standing
B. Walking sideways
C. Walking backward
D. Moving from a sitting position to a standing position - ANSWER-C
Of the four options, backward walking is the only one that requires hip extension with
concurrent knee flexion and hip flexion with knee extension
1. A physical therapist examining wrist-joint play finds restriction in the direction indicated by
the arrow. To address the restriction, the therapist should include an intervention to increase
which motion of the index finger (2nd digit)?
A. Flexion
B. Extension
C. Abduction
D. Rotation - ANSWER-A
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