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| activity limitations (ICF Model) |
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| difficulties an individual may have in executing activities |
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| the reasonable expectation that the human body could behave in the manner predicted |
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| proficiency of clinical skills and abilities, informed by continually expanding knowledge, the individual clinicians develop through experience, learning, and reflection about their practice |
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| a process that integrates and evaluates data obtained during a patient/client examination, often resulting in a classification that guides prognosis, the plan of care, and subsequent interventions |
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| the inability or restricted ability to perform actions, tasks, and activities related to required self-care, home management, work, community, and leisure roles in the individual's sociocultural context and physical environment |
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| a dynamic process in which the physical therapist makes clinical judgments based on gathered during the examination |
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| any empirical observation about the apparent relation between events constitutes potential evidence |
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| a comprehensive screening and specific testing process leading to diagnostic classification, or, as appropriate, referral to another practionioner |
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| functional limitations (Nagi model) |
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| occur when impairments result in a restriction of the ability to perform a physical action, task or activity in an efficient, typically expected, or competent manner |
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| alterations in the anatomical, physiological, or psychological structures or functions that both (1)result from underlying changes in the normal state and (2) contribute to illness |
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| problems in body functions or structure such as a significant deviation or loss |
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| the purposeful use of various physical therapy procedures and techniques, in collaboration with the patient/client and, when appropriate, other care providers, in order to effect a change in the patient/client's condition |
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| the end result of patient/client management, which includes the impact of physical therapy interventions; may be measured by the physical therapist or determined by self-report from the patient/client |
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| participation restrictions (ICF model) |
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| problems an individual may experience in involvement in life situtations |
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| a disease, disorder, or confident that is "primarily identified at the cellular level" and is (1) characterized by a particular cluster of signs and symptoms and (2) recognized by either the patient/client or practitioner as "abnormal" |
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| health care that "customizes treatment recommendations and decision making in response to patients' preferences and beliefs...this partnership also is characterized by informed, shared decision making, development of patient knowledge, skills needed for self-management of illness, and preventive behavior |
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| activities that attempt to (1) prevent a "target condition in susceptible or potentially susceptible populations" (primary prevention); (2) decreased the "duration of illness, severity of disease, and sequelae through early diagnosis and intervention" (secondary prevention); (3) limit "the degree of disability and promote rehabilitation and restoration of function in patients with chronic and irreversible diseases" (tertiary prevention) |
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| prediction of the natural course of a condition or its development based on previously identified risk factors, also, "the predicted optimal level of improvement through intervention and the amount of time required to achieve that level" |
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