An OT Practitioner Is Working with a 21-Year-Old Client Who

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Multiple Choice

An OT practitioner is working with a 21-year-old client who has suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting from a car accident and is comatose in the intensive care unit.The OT practitioner has been asked to make hand splints in a resting position.To prevent shortening of the metacarpophalangeal (MP) joint collateral ligaments,the splint should place the MP joints in which of the following?

• A) 0 degree of MP extension
• B) 60-70 degrees of MP flexion
• C) 10-35 degrees of MP flexion
• D) 10-35 degrees of MP extension

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