Explain why a practitioner would take use a client's joints through a passive range of motion

What will be an ideal response?


A practitioner uses passive joint movement with a client to increase range of motion, to stretch soft tissues around a joint, to relieve joint pain by reducing hypersensitivity to motion, to improve the circulation of synovial fluid in the joint, or to help a client develop an awareness of joint motion.

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A) external urban hypothermia caused by a medical complaint. B) generalized hyperthermia caused by convection. C) internal urban hypothermia with heat loss caused by conduction. D) localized external hypothermia caused by immobility.

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If a patient were exhibiting pupillary constriction, hypersalivation, bronchial wheezing, and bradycardia, you should suspect ________ of the ________ nervous system

A) blockade; voluntary B) stimulation; sympathetic C) stimulation; parasympathetic D) blockade; cholinergic

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Which of the following could cause lymphadenopathy?

a. Inflammation b. Infection c. Tumor d. All of the above

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The two sides of the interior nose are separated by the:

A) laryngeal cavity. B) nasal cavity. C) nasal septum. D) oral septum.

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