Types of CVA
The most common type of CVA
What is Ischemic
FAST means this
What is face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, & time to call 911
Amount of physical activity is a risk factor T/F
What is true
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)
This is what happens to speech in an anterior cerebral artery stroke
What is whispered speech or lack of all communication
A thrombotic clot is this
What is a blood clot
Aphasia is this
What is trouble talking/understanding
Hypertension is a nonmodifiable risk factor T/F
What is false, it's a modifiable risk factor
This percent have reoccurring strokes
What is 25%
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)
The types of hemorrhagic stroke
What is intercerebral & subarachnoid
Dysathria is this
What is facial muscle weakness
The “silent disease”
What is hypertension
Depression affects this amount of stroke survivors
What is 1/3
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
Wallenberg syndrome is this
What is a classic brainstem stroke the result of a vertebral or cerebrallar artery occlusion
The difference between hemiparesis and hemiplegia
What is weakness & paralysis
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)
This percent of stroke survivors demonstrate functional recovery within this amount of months
71% of stroke survivors have functional recovery within 6 months
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