True or False. When using a gait belt to assist a patient to a standing position, you should lift the patient while twisting your body away from the bed.

True or False. A swing-through gait is used with crutches when there is some weight-bearing ability on both legs.

To use a three-point gait when walking with crutches, the patient should start in the tripod position.

True or False. A patient should never try to climb stairs or use an escalator with a walker.

In the supine position, the patient is lying face down, flat on the abdomen.

True or False. You should ask for assistance from others to turn a patient who is frail, overweight, or has equipment or devices attached to his body.

True or False. ROM exercises are standardized, structured movements that help people move each joint through as full a range as possible without causing pain.

Which of the following statements about good posture is true?

Ambulation is essential for performing daily activities and ____.

The second stage of assisting a patient to ambulate is ____.

If the patient you are assisting begins to collapse during ambulation, you should ____.

A(n) _____ is a type of assistive device for ambulation that does not require upper body strength.

Crutches that have a u-shaped underarm support that distributes weight over a larger area of the skin surface are called ____ crutches.

A(n) ____ gait is used when there should be no weight bearing on the affected or injured leg.

If a decubitus ulcer bleeds, and the skin and tissue become necrotic, this is considered a(n) ____ ulcer.

When a patient is lying on his or her side, this is called the ____ position.