You Are Educating Your Patient About Returning to Functional Activities

question 15

Multiple Choice

You are educating your patient about returning to functional activities following a radial head resection with an implant.What should you tell her about returning to high-demand,high-impact activities?

• A) Avoid these activities on a permanent basis.
• B) Because she had a radial head implant,she may return to these activities after 6 months.
• C) She may return to heavy lifting after 6 months,but not high-impact (tennis or golf)activities due to the ballistic force these activities create.
• D) She should have had a total elbow arthroplasty if she wanted to return to these activities.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect, intended to be contested by an alternative hypothesis.

Expected Frequency

The predicted number of times an outcome is expected to occur in a statistical experiment, based on theoretical probability distribution.

Significance Level

The threshold used in statistical testing to determine if a result is statistically significant, commonly set at 0.05, indicating a 5% risk of concluding an effect exists when it does not.

Z-Test

A statistical test used to determine whether two population means are different when the variances are known and the sample size is large.