This neurological deficit occurs when a blood vessel in the brain is occluded:
What is ischemic CVA?
This process occurs in the brain following a stroke and is defined by the increased use of alternative neurological pathways:
What is reorganization?
The beginning of a movement pattern:
Name the 4 standard areas to test reflexes:
An atypical pattern of function that an individual develops and uses to complete tasks because they cannot access typical movement patterns on the side of the impairment:
What are undesirable compensatory patterns?
This can be a manifestation of neurovascular disease and symptoms include paralysis on one side of the body:
This process occurs in the brain following a stroke and involves 'collateral sprouting' of neuropathways around the infarct:
What is regeneration?
Evaluating cranial nerve function in CVA is integral for this purpose:
What is: deficits in CN function can determine size and location of the infarct or hemorrhage.
A reaction that helps with balance by keeping center of gravity over base of support:
What are equilibrium reactions?
Name an objective pain measurement scale:
Visual Analog Scale
McGill Pain Questionnaire
This is the name for the type of hypertonia where muscle tone is increased by movement:
What is spasticity?
This type of impairment is a direct result of brain damage and is immediately present:
What is a primary impairment?
This type of secondary impairment occurs in the shoulder and/or had and includes tenderness, swelling, and pain in the extremity, followed by loss of ROM, and joint contracture.
This photo depicts an individual in what stage of CVA recovery?

Name 2 examples of a secondary impairment caused by a CVA:
Changes in muscle and soft tissue length
Pain
Edema
Name 3 potential complications for an individual who has experienced a CVA:
What are:
1. Seizures
2. Spasticity
3. Respiratory Involvement
4. Stroke Fatigue Syndrome
5. Cardiovascular Health
6. Fractures
7.Thrombophlebitis (DVT)
8. CRPS
9. Pain.
This is the most common type of subluxation in CVA recovery:
What is inferior subluxation?
Muscles most likely to experience shortening as a result of CVA:
What are 2-joint muscles?
A individual with a CVA who presents with language deficits is most likely to have the infarct in this hemisphere:
Name 2 examples of a primary impairment caused by CVA:
Neurological weakness
Changes in muscular activation
Changes in sensation
Changes in muscle tone
The majority of functional recovery from a CVA occurs within:
What is 6 months?
A evaluation tool used to determine an individual's level of consciousness is:
Coma Recovery Scale
Name 2 examples of a composite impairment caused by CVA:
Movement deficits
Atypical movement
Undesirable compensations
An individual demonstrates evidence of being awake and responds meaningfully to stimuli. This individual is in the state of:
What is awareness?
Describe the tone continuum:
What is: hypotonia - normal - hypertonia - rigidity?