Your Patient Has Rheumatoid Arthritis and Currently Is Exhibiting Acute

question 24

Multiple Choice

Your patient has rheumatoid arthritis and currently is exhibiting acute symptoms in the wrist.This patient will benefit from grade I or II mobilization techniques at this time because these techniques:

• A)Increase the ROM by stretching restrictions.
• B)Temporarily relieve pain, thereby allowing freer motion of the wrist.
• C)Retard synovitis and the progression of the disease process, if only temporarily.
• D)Reduce preexisting deformity.

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Definitions:

Direct Benefits

Advantages that directly affect an individual's survival or reproduction, typically gained through mate choice or specific behaviors.

Indirect Benefit

Advantages gained by an individual from choosing a particular mate that affect the genetic quality of their offspring rather than providing immediate gains.

Sexual Selection

A process of natural selection where traits that increase an individual's chance of mating and reproductive success are favored and become more common in a population.

Males Compete

A behavioral aspect in many species where male individuals vie for access to resources or mates, influencing sexual selection.