Foundations
This term is used to describe the study of the use of medications to prevent, diagnose, and cure disease.
What is Pharmacotherapy?
This condition is brain-based, non-progressive, permanent, and can be acquired or congenital.
What is cerebral palsy?
Children with cerebral palsy often have involuntary and uncontrolled movements. This concept is known as: _____.
What is Dyskinesia?
This oral medication can be used to treat spasticity in children with neurological conditions, like cerebral palsy.
What is baclofen?
This GMFCS describes a child who can walk independently but struggles on uneven surfaces and stairs without a railing.
What is GMFCS level II?
This term references how drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated
What is pharmacokinetics?
This condition is mostly characterized by social communication and repetitive behaviors.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
This muscle condition, often found with children who have cerebral palsy, is characterized by velocity-dependent resistance to movement. Name that condition.
What is spasticity?
What are corticosteroids?
A child with SPD has difficulty distinguishing objects in their pocket by touch alone. This reflects:
sensory discrimination disorder
Which organ is primarily responsible for the metabolism of medication?
The Liver
This condition is defined by adaptive behavior deficits, decreased IQ, and generally diagnosed prior to age 18.
What is intellectual disability?
Carelessness, “wandering mind”, poor organizational skills, looses items, easily sidetracked describes the symptoms of a person with ________.
What is ADHD/predominantly inattentive?
This prescription medication has sedating effects. It can be used for mood disorders and sleep disorders.
What is clonidine?
A child with MD requires intervention for safety with ADL participation, specifically bathing. These items can facilitate ADL participation and safety.
What are shower chairs, grab bars, specialized wheelchairs, lifts?
This term refers to the process by which medications are dispersed throughout various tissues and fluids after absorption has occurred
What is drug distribution?
This condition is a characterized by progressive and degeneration of skeletal muscles.
What is muscular dystrophy?
These signs and symptoms of Poor core strength, Slouching, Fatigue with upright tasks, Difficulty with balance activities may describe an individual with ________.
What is sensory based motor disorder/postural disorder?
This medication for ADHD Blocks reuptake of dopamine & norepinephrine in the synapse and addresses inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity.
What is a Methylphenidate-based stimulant? (specific examples include Ritalin, Concerta, Metadate, Daytrana)
A child with sensory over responsibility Avoids touch, textures, or messy play, Distress with loud noises or bright lights. Name 1 environmental modification you could use in an educational setting.
What is dimming the lights?
[other acceptable answers TBD]
First-pass effect refers to ________.
Liver metabolism before entering the blood stream/systemic circulation.
This condition is best defined as a difficulty detecting, modulating, or interpreting sensory input.
What is sensory processing disorder?
This hallmark feature of SCD red blood cells can lead to vase-occlusion and blocking of blood flow.
What is curved, brittle, and sticky red blood cells?
This medication used to treat sickle cell disease works by increasing fetal hemoglobin levels.
What is hydroxyurea?
A student with ADHD struggles with time management and organization at school. OT intervention should focus on ______.
Executive functioning strategies and routine development