An OT Practitioner Is Evaluating a 58-Year-Old Client Who Sustained

question 3

Multiple Choice

An OT practitioner is evaluating a 58-year-old client who sustained a stroke that resulted in hemiplegia of his right arm 3 months ago.While beginning to assess ROM,the therapist observes that the client's right wrist and hand are swollen and tender.The client reports having fallen in his bedroom the previous day.With regard to the wrist and hand,the therapist should do which of the following?

• A) Measure active ROM and passive ROM.
• B) Measure passive ROM only.
• C) Measure active ROM only.
• D) Defer measurements until a later time.

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average of all the observations in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory stating that, given a sufficiently large sample size from a population with a finite level of variance, the mean of all samples will be approximately equal to the mean of the population, with the samples approximating a normal distribution.

Statistical Inference

The process of drawing conclusions about population properties based on a sample taken from the population.

Sample Proportion

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