You Got Some Nerve!
You assess this nerve by asking the client to turn head & shoulders against resistance.
What is Cranial Nerve XI- Spinal Accessory Nerve
This is the minimum number of senses you need to maintain your balance.
What is TWO?
When spasticity is present, tone is dependent on this.
What is velocity?
To assign an MRC motor grade of 3/5, the subject must be able to do this.
What is flex against gravity?
When testing this specific type of attention at the bedside, you ask the patient to recite the months of the year backward or spell the word "WORLD" backward.
What is working memory (or sustained attention)?
When one pupil dilates when the other is being illuminated you have this.
What is an afferent pupillary defect?
This is the slowest sensory modality.
What is the spinothalamic tract?
This pathologic reflex is only normal in infancy and should disappear after age 2.
What is the Babinski Reflex
This sign with a celestial name reveals subtle weakness in the upper extremities.
What is orbiting?
This is the most important assessment parameter in a neuro assessment.
What is level of consciousness?
This nerve is responsible for most of our sense of taste.
What is Cranial Nerve I- Olfactory Nerve
This is tool can assist with evaluation of proprioception.
What is a tuning fork?
What is cerebral / spinal shock?
A tiny lesion here might give you Dysarthria-clumsy hand syndrome.
What is the internal capsule / pons?
To evaluate this specific cognitive property, you ask the patient to explain a common proverb, such as "Don't cry over spilled milk"
What is abstract reasoning?
You do this to test CN IV.
What is ask the patient to follow your finger down and inward toward their nose, which tests the superior oblique muscle?
This tool can assist with the evaluation of hearing.
What is a tuning fork?
This can be elicited and look like a focal motor seizure but is not.
What is clonus?
This happens in the cerebral peduncle after an injury that damages the motor cortex.
What is Atrophy?
This cognitive process is tested by presenting a horizontal line on a page and asking the patient to mark its exact midpoint.
What is visuospatial attention?
When performing a visual fields exam via confrontation, the examiner shoud stand at this distance from the patient.
What is an arm's length?
The same thing happened to the dinosaurs but it wasn't because of neglect.
What is extinction?
Inability to completely extend a joint might suggest the development of this.
What is a contracture?
Sometimes rogue subcutaneous single motor units will reveal this lower motor neuron finding.
What are fasciculations?
This test on the MOCA meaures executive function, cognitive flexibility, and task-switching ability.
What is Trails B?