Assessment Tools
Test used to assess a patient's endurance during walking
What is the 6MWT?
The primary motor cortex is located here
What is the frontal lobe?
Primary muscle required to extend the knee in standing
What is the quadriceps?
A person must lose consciousness for a TBI to occur
What is Myth? (you can have a TBI without loss of consciousness)
Assistive device for standing and ambulation with two front wheels, and 4 points of contact with the ground
What is a rolling walker?
PTs use this assessment to evaluate balance in TBI patients.
What is the Berg Balance Scale?
Loss of motor function on one side of the body
What is hemi-paresis
Intervention to stretch out a joint over time using fiberglass "cast" in order to gradually improve range of motion
What is serial casting?
Recovery after a TBI plateaus completely after 6 months
What is a myth?
Specialty SRALab clinic PT's can refer patients to for order of specialty wheelchairs
What is the Wheelchair Seating and Positioning Clinic?
A measure used to evaluate walking speed in TBI patients.
What is the 10 meter walk test?
Another name for "mild TBI"
What is a concussion?
These are considered the 4 biomechanical subcomponents of gait?
What are stance control, swing limb advancement, forward propulsion and lateral stability
Accurate prognosis in disorders of consciousness patients can be made within the initial 72 hours of injury.
This type of wheelchair is low to the ground, very hard to tip over, frequently used with our restless, behavioral friends
What is a Bentley wheelchair?
This number out of 56 is considered "cut-off score" for fall risk on a commonly used outcome measure to assess balance
What is 45/56?
A muscle's velocity-dependent resistance to passive movement
What is spasticity?
This principle of neuroplasticity refers to the fact that one learned skill can enhance the acquisition of a similar, related skill
What is transference?
60-80% of individuals with moderate-to-severe brain injury will regain ability to walk independently
What is a Fact?
What is a hemi-walker?
1.3m/s
Seen in severe brain injuries, resulting in positioning of the cervical spine into same side lateral flexion and opposite rotation
What is dystonic torticollis?
The target heart rate zone for high-intensity gait training
What is 70-85% HR max?
At discharge from IP rehab, patients with commercial insurance can receive both a wheelchair and an ambulatory assistive device through insurance
What is a Myth?
Ankle brace that completely stabilizes the ankle joint, and assists with knee extension
What is a solid AFO?