FORs & Approaches
This top-down evaluation framework views occupational performance as the dynamic intersection of person, environment, and occupation.
PEO model
This practice condition features rest intervals between trials that are equal to or longer than the trial duration itself.
Distributed practice
This primary organ is responsible for drug metabolism and biotransformation in the body.
Liver
This sensory test uses specialized monofilaments of varying thickness to measure touch thresholds and identify protective sensation loss.
Semmes-Weinstein monofilament test
This prominent brain structure coordinates balance, fine motor control, and compares intended motor plans with sensory feedback.
Cerebellum
This intervention approach is used when fixing underlying impairments is not possible or not immediate, focusing instead on environmental modifications and assistive technology.
Compensatory approach
This type of practice structure involves repeating the same task uninterrupted and is considered best during early skill acquisition.
Blocked practice
This specific laboratory value range represents the safe therapeutic window for mobilizing patients on anticoagulation therapy like warfarin (think INR).
2.0-3.0
This term describes the perception of pain in response to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain, such as air blowing across the skin
Allodynia
This specific cerebellar sign involves an inability to judge distances accurately, leading to overshooting or undershooting targets during movement.
Dysmetria
This traditional sensorimotor approach emphasizes manual contacts, diagonal patterns, and rotational movements crossing the body's midline.
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
Getting dressed is classified as this specific type of task because it consists of a series of linked discrete steps requiring precise ordering.
Serial task
Exercise should be immediately avoided and limited to edge-of-bed activities if a patient's potassium level drops below this specific threshold.
3.2 mEq/L
This treatment intervention uses repeated benign sensory stimulation to decrease nervous system responses and reduce hypersensitivity.
Habituation
(Different from desensitization: habituation reduces normal response to neutral stimulus repeated over time, while desensitization reduces elevated/sensitized response back toward baseline.)
This basal ganglia symptom presents as rhythmic interrupted resistance when a limb is passively stretched, resembling the clicking teeth of a gear.
Cogwheel rigidity
This specific sensorimotor technique involves passively moving a body part in a desired pattern and rotating it in both directions to decrease spasticity.
Rhythmic rotation
When a therapist tells a client post-performance, "Your shirt is on backwards," this represents this specific category of feedback.
Knowledge of results
This specific condition describes abnormally low platelet counts that place a patient at high risk for spontaneous bleeding and bruising.
Thrombocytopenia
When performing sensory testing on a client with a peripheral nerve injury, testing should follow this specific anatomical direction.
Distal to proximal
This clinical scale is used to subjectively grade muscle tone and spasticity from 0 to 4 by passively moving a limb through its range of motion within one second.
Modified Ashworth Spasticity Scale (MASS)
Applying a compensatory approach too early in neurological rehabilitation can lead to this detrimental client phenomenon.
Learned non-use
This contemporary motor learning theory highlights that motivational states, enhanced expectancies, and external attentional focus significantly optimize motor skill learning.
OPTIMAL Theory (optimizing performance through intrinsic motivation and attention for learning)
Therapy is strictly contraindicated and should be held when this specific cardiac marker is acutely elevated or trending upward.
Cardiac troponins
Honorable mention: creatine phosphokinase
This specialized assessment evaluates tactile dexterity and precision grip by having clients identify 12 small standardized metal objects with vision occluded.
Dellon-Modified Moberg Pick-Up Test
This foundational muscle group of the spine, remembered by the mnemonic 'I Love Spaghetti,' acts as primary erector spinae extenders for postural control.
Iliocostalis, longissimus, spinalis