Amputee related questions

[Hrant Kuchuryan]

I was just looking around the NCS interviews section, and saw that some of the people that passed the exam, mentioned that there were several amputee-related questions on the exam. Would someone care to explain how ‘amputee-related questions’ could be related to NCS exam, and what material it would be best to know?

[Chrissy Durrough Lugge]

Hi Hrant! Prosthetics and amputation management is fair game. I don’t even broach it in the NCS Advantage because it’s such a huge topic that (1) isn’t purely neuro and (2) will constitute a very small part of the NCS exam. I feel like people are better off focusing their study efforts on the more foundational neuro topics and give their best guess on the prosthetics questions on the exam because they won’t be enough to make or break you.

If I were to guess a few topics to check out if you have extra time to study, I’d be familiar with the most common types of amputations, phantom limb pain and common treatments (like mirror therapy), basics of caring for the residual limb, and some considerations of gait with prosthetics. Again, those are just high level topics and you could go so deep into each of them.

If you think about it, after your exam, let me know if you wished you’d studied more about amputations and prosthetics and, if so, what you would have studied! I’m always happy to develop new content but never want to send anyone down rabbit holes that aren’t necessary!

[Hrant Kuchuryan]

Thank you, I will certainly give you additional feedback once I take the exam.

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