Gaitway
This is the most appropriate intervention to address right knee buckling throughout stance phase in a young adult patient who has incurred a TBI.
What is Squats?
The autonomic nervous system is a part of this larger nervous system
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
The spina bifida that typically results in the most severe impairments.
What is Myelomeningocele?
The type of wound that would occur in a middle aged man with a C7 complete spinal cord injury that has seating and mobility issues and a 4 centimeter wound over his right ischial tuberosity with visible subcutaneous fat.
What is Stage 3?
With a mild range of 1-3, moderate range of 4-6, and a severe range of 7-10, you've probably been asked this in most of your doctor's appointments as part of this assessment.
What is Numeric Pain Rating Scale?
Use of this device is an intervention strategy that would be best for a patient with spinocerebellar ataxia demonstrating variable step length, stance width, and foot placement during gait.
What is a Metronome?
This nerve innervates the tibias posterior, flexor digitorum longs, and flexor hallucinate longus
What is the Tibial Nerve?
Following the loss of spinal and bulbar motor neurons, the remaining neurons may sprout axons to re-innervate muscle fibers in those with this condition.
What is Poliomyelitis?
This nerve root is most likely involved when someone experiences difficulty tightening light bulbs in new lighting fixtures.
What is C5?
The Mini Mental Assessment is used to assess the cognitive impairment of patients suffering from strokes, TBIs, and the elderly. It's below this score that patients are determined to have severe cognitive impairment.
What is 24?
What is Secondary-Progressive?
This is the recommended acute medical intervention for individuals with Guillan-Barre syndrome.
What is Intravenous immunoglobulin?
This type of stroke is least common and has a high mortality rate
What is Hemorrhagic?
When a patient with a T8 complete spinal cord injury presents to PT to increase standing tolerance in standing frame, but upon standing and securing his catheter bag to the side of the frame, the patient experiences nausea and feeling faint. He likely has this.
What is Orthostatic hypotension?
With a mild range of 25-28, moderate range of 19-24, and severe range of less than 19, this. assessment is used for assessing Parkinson's disease, geriatric, and/or stroke patients.
What is Tinetti?
Seeing a patient who has hammertoes and high arches and a stoppage gait pattern and is experiencing weakness his ankle dorsiflexors, leads a good PT to diagnose the patient with this disease.
What is Charcot-Marie-Tooth?
This training for individuals with Guillain-Barre syndrome is used to recruit fast-twitch muscle fibers allowing for improved performance of functional mobility tasks.
What is Interval Training?
This medication has shown to reduce extent of damage following spinal cord injury but must be administered within 8 hours of injury and continued for less than 48 hours.
What is Methylpredinsolone?
This type of wound in a patient with a T8 incomplete injury spinal cord injury is characterized by non-blanchable skin areas.
What are Stage 1 pressure injuries?
Assessing patients with vestibular dysfunction, this test's mild range is 0-10%, moderate range is 10%-30%, and severe range is 30%-100%
What is the Motion Sensitivity Quotient?
For a 24 year old female soccer player who has been diagnosed with vestibular neuritis, this outcome measure would be best to monitor her improvements in her dynamic balance.
What is Functional Gait Assessment?
These persistent muscle twitches are generally not painful but can interfere with sleep. They are the result of the ongoing disruption of signals from the nerves to the muscles that occurs in ALS.
What are fasciculations?
This is a primary central nervous system tumor beginning in the brain or spinal cord.
What is Oligodendroglioma?
After a car crash and experiencing whiplash and severe hyperextension, X-rays revealed compression fractures of the C5 and C6 vertebrae. This would be the best way to assess for damage of the dorsomedial spinal cord.
What is test sensation of upper trunk and upper extremities?
With a severe range of greater than 35, a moderate range of 34 to 29, a mild range of 22 to 28, and normal limit being lower than 22, this assessment is used for patients suffering from traumatic brain injuries.
What is the Agitated Behavior Scale?