What's your position?
Stepping on a gas petal of a car.
What is Plantar flexion?
The ability to be stretched.
What is Extensibility?
Sudden onset condition of the muscles consisting of involuntary movements, often painful twitching. Caused from overextension or dehydration.
What is muscle spasms?
Mass of nerve tissue protected by the skull.
What is the brain?
Before assisting a patient to stand, they first must be wearing this item.
What is non-skid shoes/footwear?
Decreasing the angle between two bones.
What is Flexion?
The ability to respond to stimulus.
What is excitability?
Over stretching causing injury to muscles or tendons, causing pain and swelling.
What is Strain?
This is the section of the Nervous System that includes all of the nerves that branch off the spinal cord and extend to all parts of the body. Does NOT include the brain and spinal cord though.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
Before assisting to stand, client is assisted to sitting on the side on the bed it this important position.
What is positioned with feet flat on the floor?
Straightening the lower arm away from the upper arm.
What is extension?
The ability to become short and thick.
What is contractibility?
Damage to the brain that may cause facial droop, slurred speech, vision changes, arm/leg weakness, etc.
What is CVA (Cerebrovascular accident)?
This is the term for the "tail-like" structure that is attached to the cell body of the neuron.
What is the Axon?
What is twists or wrinkles in the stocking?
Turning head from side to side.
What is rotation?
The ability to return to its original shape.
What is elasticity?
Inflammation to the brain typically due to infection. Symptoms include confusion, hallucinations, fevers, seizures and headache.
What is Encephalitis?
This part of the nervous system helps maintain balance in body’s involuntary functions.
What is the Autonomic nervous system?
This is the correct way to hold a gait belt when walking a patient and the way your body be positioned.
What is the candidate’s hands are in upward position and walks slightly behind and to one side of client?
Moving the arm away from the side of the body.
What is Abduction?
The 3 main types of muscle.
What are skeletal, smooth and cardiac?
A disease that is caused due to the immune system destroying the protective covering of nerves. Symptoms include numbness or weakness in one or more limbs that typically occurs on one side of your body at a time, vision changes and dizziness and fatigue.
What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
Division of autonomic nervous system that acts in times of emergency (fight or flight).
What is the Sympathetic nervous system?
After introductions and explaining to a patient that you are here to help them roll over, these 3 steps must be done first before rolling the patient.
What is .......?
1. Privacy is provided with a curtain, screen, or door
2. Before turning, lowers head of bed.
3. Raise side rail on side to which body will be turned