Psychologically-Informed Practice
Having to do with mental, emotional, social, and spiritual effects of a disease.
What is psychosocial health?
Chest pain, pressure or discomfort in the chest, fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness or fainting.
What are heart issue symptoms/possible heart attack?
Disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What are neurological conditions?
A group of disorders leading to imbalances in hormone levels.
What are endocrine disorders?
Three exercises for low back pain.
Dead bug, McGill 3 (curl-up, side plank, bird dog), stir the pot, etc.
This model includes identifying etiology, diagnosis, and intervention of a disease.
What is the biomedical model?
Irregular or abnormal heart rhythms.
What is arrhythmia?
Major reason cited for days missed at work or school, as well as visits to healthcare providers.
What are headaches?
An under active thyroid.
What is hypothyroid (Hashimoto's disease)
Three hamstring exercises.
Hamstring curl, Nordic hamstring curl, glute-hamstring raise, seated leg curl, Romanian deadlift, stability ball hamstring curl, etc.
This model emphasis is on function while considering a holistic approach to disease with emphasis on social, psychological, and biological factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
High blood pressure, smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, high cholesterol, poor nutrition, and stress.
What are modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease?
Severe, one-sided head/eye pain, tend to follow the same pattern of showing up at the same time each day, and multiple times per day.
What are cluster headaches?
A metabolic disorder where the body doesn't produce enough insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it produces.
What is diabetes?
Three quadriceps exercises.
Leg extensions, squats, Bulgarian split squat, lunges, leg press, goblet squat, etc.
A form of psychotherapy that focuses on thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
What is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?
This can cause stenosis (obstruction of forward flow) or regurgitation (inadequate closure) resulting in backward flow of blood in the heart.
What is valvular heart disease?
Rapid eye movement between two fixed points side to side and up and down.
What are horizontal and vertical saccades?
The three stages of adhesive capsulitis.
What is freezing, frozen, and thawing stages?
Four adductor exercises.
Hip adduction, ball squeeze, side-lying leg lifts, Copenhagen adductor exercise, etc.
Unpredictable behaviours, irrational behaviours/statement, extreme anxiety associated with trauma, tend to be long standing psychiatric problems (resistance to change).
What are orange flags?
These are the five main considerations when putting together a cardiac rehabilitation/program.
1. regular exercise
2. heart healthy diet
3. reduce stress
4. stop smoking
5. medical therapy (take doctor prescribed medication)
These four symptoms are scored 0-10 at the beginning and after each of the individual tests of the vestibular-oculomotor screen (VOMS).
What are headaches, dizziness, nausea, and fogginess?
The capsular pattern (order of most ROM loss) for adhesive capsulitis.
What is external rotation, abduction, internal rotation/forward flexion?
Five glute exercises.
Glute bridge, monster walks, side-lying leg lifts (with plank), hip thrust, KB swing, skaters, etc.