Types of CVA
Terms
Risk Factors
Inpacts of CVA
signs & symptoms
100

The most common type of CVA

What is Ischemic 

100

FAST means this 

What is face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, & time to call 911

100

Amount of physical activity is a risk factor T/F

What is true 

100

These are 2 impacts on occupational performance 

What is maintaining employment, driving, bathing, grooming, attention to tasks, education/play, social engagement, remembering important dates/people/time, leisure participation, reading (name 2 of these)

100

This is what happens to speech in an anterior cerebral artery stroke 

What is whispered speech or lack of all communication 

200

A thrombotic clot is this

What is a blood clot 

200

Aphasia is this

What is trouble talking/understanding 

200

Hypertension is a nonmodifiable risk factor T/F

What is false, it's a modifiable risk factor 

200

This percent have reoccurring strokes 

What is 25%

200

This happens in a posterior stroke (name 2 symptoms)

What is impaired coordination of the eyes, dizziness, vertigo, paralysis of the face, drooling, clumsy movement of the hands, impaired temperature sensation, impaired ability to read or name objects (name 2)

300

The types of hemorrhagic stroke 

What is intercerebral & subarachnoid 

300

Dysathria is this 

What is facial muscle weakness

300

The “silent disease” 

What is hypertension 

300

Depression affects this amount of stroke survivors 

What is 1/3

300

Stroke warning signs 

What is numbness or weakness is the face

sudden confusion, trouble speaking, or understanding

Sudden severe headache with no known cause 

Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, or loss of balance or coordination 

400

Wallenberg syndrome is this 

What is a classic brainstem stroke the result of a vertebral or cerebrallar artery occlusion 

400

The difference between hemiparesis and hemiplegia 

What is weakness & paralysis 

400

The most important risk factor and when this becomes more severe of a risk 

What is age  - this is more of a risk after age 55 (risk doubles every decade after age 55) 

400

This percent of stroke survivors demonstrate functional recovery within this amount of months 

71% of stroke survivors have functional recovery within 6 months 

400

One symptom of right sided cerebral injury and one symptom of left sided cerebral injuries 

Left sided options - what is: 

Impaired sensation, blind spots, aphasia, dysarthria, memory defects, right side loss of voluntary movement 


Right sided options - what is: 

Hemiparesis, hemiplegia, impairment of sensation, impulsivity, dressing apraxia, unilateral neglect, impaired left half of visual field, perceptual defects