Patient Care Skills: Positioning, Range of Motion, Transfers, Wheelchairs, and Ambulation |
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Abduction adjusted allow ambulation armrest ascend stairs assistive device avoid backward balance base of support bearing body cane chair command Completion crutches curb dependent descend elbow extension facing fall feet finger flexed flexion floor foot footrests forearm forward front edge gait belt gait pattern grasps the gait guarding hand grasps Hand Placement head holding Initiating involved leg Joint knee lift locked lower lower extremity maintain maneuver method motion move movement muscles necessary parallel Patient advances patient's feet performed pivot placed plane plinth PNF diagonal Preparing prevent properly pulling pushing quad cane raise range of motion re-positioning reaches release remain removed requires roll rotation seat shoulder side sitting sliding slightly stability stair rail standing Starting position step straight stride stronger leg stronger side supine swing therapist tion transfer turn upper trunk upright walker weight wheel wheelchair wrist