Fatigue and Sleep
A state of weariness related to reduced motivation, prolonged mental activity, or boredom.
What is psychological fatigue?
True or false- In the elderly, severity of injury is a predictor of outcome.
What is false?
What is 60%?
Which cognitive function is often addressed first in rehabilitation and why?
What is attention?
_____ _____ are factors that may exacerbate fatigue, such as pain, sleep disturbances, stress, and anxiety.
What is secondary fatigue?
To receive this diagnosis, the person must experience a functional limitation in everyday life due to cognitive change.
What is dementia?
This motor disorder is characterized by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch.
What is spasticity?
What are categorization skills?
The depletion of energy, hormones, neurotransmitters, or reduced number of neural connections, muscle weakness, or injury.
What is physiological fatigue?
As compared severity of injury, things such as age of injury, pre-existing medical conditions, and medication use are stronger predictors of what in older adults?
What is post-injury outcome?
The incidence for this medical condition is as high as 54%, and may be indicated by redness in extremities, swelling, pain, fever.
What is DVT?
What are hearing, vision, communication abilities, emotional control, medical stability, and comorbid conditions?
The name of the hypothesis that posits that fatigue may result from the compensatory effort needed to meet demands of daily life in presence of cognitive deficits.
What is the coping hypothesis?
What is the association between dementia and TBI risk?
What is... there doesn't seem to be a clear link?
Dysphagia, balance deficits, walking issues, weakness, and coordination disorders are physical impairments that may result from ___ ____ dysfunction.
What is cranial nerve dysfunction?
Impairment in this cognitive process can result in difficulty with abstract thought, self-monitoring, flexible thinking, planning, initiation, etc.
What is executive functions?
Sleep disturbances occur in approx. ____% of the population of people with TBI.
What is 30-80%?
These are ways that individuals can maximize their health and wellness in the aging process.
What is exercise, advocacy, nutrition, mental health, socialization, etc.
Ataxia and tremors are two coordination disorders that may be caused by injury to these areas.
What is the corpus callosum and cerebellum?
How does a compensatory approach to rehab differ from the restorative approach?
Compensatory assumes cog fx cannot recover and works on strategies and accommodations, the restorative approach assumes repetitions and tx can change brain's circuitry.