Happy Physical Therapy Month

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Across
  1. 4. How many thousand miles of blood vessels in the human body
  2. 6. Shortening a muscle while holding a weight is what type of strengthening?
  3. 7. Initials for FDR’s leg braces
  4. 10. Famous Hungarian who received PT after her broken hip
  5. 12. Exercise that may include use of the treadmill, elliptical, spin cycle, and nustep for this type of exercise
  6. 13. True or false:Medical diathermy devices were used to cause interference to German radio beams used for targeting nighttime bombing raids in World War II
  7. 14. What percentage of your body’s bones are in the foot
  8. 16. The way you hold yourself
  9. 18. Used to run in one place
  10. 19. The hardest working muscle in the body
  11. 21. Abbreviation for lumbago
  12. 23. The intense fear of having to cook.
  13. 27. True or false:identical twins have identical fingerprints
  14. 28. First physician to practice physical therapy and writer of the oath
  15. 29. FIM score for contact guard stair climbing
  16. 31. PT helped this president recover from Graves disease and back surgery
  17. 34. Your body has enough fat to produce how many bars of soap?
  18. 36. Emile Schlick, who was a French mechanical engineer, invented these walking aids
  19. 37. Husband and wife who developed neurodevelopmental approach to rehab
Down
  1. 1. Ultrasound for example
  2. 2. Location of the first University to offer a PT degree in 1914
  3. 3. The original name for physical therapists
  4. 4. Location of the next World Confederation of Physical Therapy Conference
  5. 5. What uncontrollable physical symptom is exhibited by those who suffer from blepharospasms?
  6. 8. Gluteus for one
  7. 9. Another name for pool therapy
  8. 11. If you tell your PT that an exercise is easy, they will do this.
  9. 15. Initials of the first wheelchair company founders in the US
  10. 17. 70% of the body is made up of what
  11. 19. The leading cause of death in the US
  12. 20. PT equipment to try before a wheelchair
  13. 22. Nickname of PT’s in England and Canada
  14. 24. The Greek word for straight
  15. 25. American skier who went on to win an Olympic gold medals after rehab and PT
  16. 26. In your lifetime, how many pounds of skin will you shed
  17. 30. Which part of the human body cannot repair itself?
  18. 32. Current retirement plan for VA PT’s
  19. 33. The largest nerve in the body
  20. 35. Which country has the earliest known prosthetic leg?