Parkinson's Disease Overview
T/F The fatigue impact scale address the clients physical, cognitive and psychosocial aspect of their life
What is true
Assessment that evaluates the client's performance and satisfaction in everyday living, over time
What is Canadian Occupational Performance Measure?
What term describes slow movement and an impaired ability to move the body swiftly on command.
Bradykinesia
An estimated 4 percent of people with Parkinson's Disease are diagnosed before what age
What is age 50?
The functional unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
What location dopaminergic neurons start to die
What is Substantia Nigra?
Assessment used to measure the severity and progression of Parkinson's Disease
What is Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale?
This is a common description of a Parkinson’s patients gait
What is slow, shuffled
What gender is 1.5 times more likely to have Parkinson's Disease
What is a male?
Carries information from the peripheral receptors toward the CNS
What is afferent axons?
In stage 3 how many sides of the body are affected
What is both sides of the body?
Intervention tool used for tremors during feeding
weighted utensils
How many American's are diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease each year
What is 60,000?
Divides a structural into right and left portions
What is Sagittal?
Parkinson Disease is often the lack of this neurotransmitters in the blood system.
What is dopamine?
What assessment involves the therapist pulling the clients shoulders back
Retropulsion
Stiffening of the posture of someone with Parkinson Disease (PD) due to the muscle loss of voluntary movement, is known as this.
What is rigidity?
At least how many people world wide are living with Parkinson's Disease
What is more than 10 million?
The outer layer or cerebral cortex of the brain
At what stage do symptoms become severe
What is stage 4?
T/F The therapist should not warn the client before performing the retropulsion test
What is False?
______ the largest risk factor
What is age?
How many people are currently living with Parkinson's Disease this year
What is 1,000,000?
Is dislodge palates, cholesterol, or other material that travels in the blood stream and blocks a blood vessel
What is Embolism?