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Cognition
Speech and Swallowing
Vision-related
Motor
Potpourri
100
The capability to remember day to day events, learn new material and retrieve material after an interval of minutes, hours or days
What is short term memory?
100
A motor disorder of speech that is caused by an upper motor neuron lesion that affects the muscles that are used to articulate words and sounds.
What is dysarthria?
100
The loss of the right or left half of the field of vision in both eyes.
What is homonymous hemianopsia?
100
The inability to perform purposeful learned movements or activities even though there is no sensory or motor impairment that would hinder completion of a task.
What is apraxia?
100
Impaired ability to judge and pinpoint distances
What is dysmetria?
200
This scale is used to examine cognitive and behavioral recovery in individuals with traumatic brain injury.
What is the Rancho Los Amigos Levels of Cognitive Functioning?
200
Impaired ability to swallow
What is dysphagia?
200
Involuntary horizontal, vertical, or rotatory movement of the eyeballs
What is nystagmus?
200
Persistent unsteadiness and difficulty maintaining a stable position or posture.
What is ataxia?
200
The inability to write due to a lesion within the brain and is typically found in combination with aphasia.
What is agraphia?
300
Cognitive deficit caused by a progressive organic mental disorder. Characterized by memory loss, confusion and disorientation, etc.
What is dementia?
300
The inability to communicate or comprehend due to damage to specific areas of the brain.
What is aphasia?
300
Fast, involuntary movements of the eyes as they change from one point of gaze to another necessary when following a moving object
What is saccades?
300
a total lack of muscle tone leading to movement paralysis
What is flaccidity?
300
The inability to recognize objects by sense of touch
What is astereognosis?
400
The PTA wants to teach a patient who is 4 weeks post CVA how to transfer from the wheelchair to the mat, how to stand up from the mat and how to take a few steps. The PTA will use this type of practice schedule.
What is blocked practice?
400
Wernicke's aphasia is also known as this.
What is receptive aphasia?
400
Double vision
What is diplopia?
400
A state of hypertonia in which skeletal muscles are hypersensitive to contraction and/or stretch.
What is spasticity?
400
Developed the 6 stages of motor recovery after CVA
What is Brunnstrom?
500
The PTA is treating a patient who has a history of falls in a multidiscipline outpatient setting. After 2 weeks of therapy, the PTA realizes that the patient is getting stronger and his single leg stance balance has improved. The patient's wife still reports falls especially when the patient is dual tasking. The PTA suspects this could be a problem and consults these clinicians.
What is a cognitive problem? What is the PT and the speech therapist?
500
Broca's aphasia is also known as this.
What is expressive aphasia?
500
The inability to interpret stimuli and events on the contralateral side of a hemispheric lesion.
What is unilateral neglect?
500
A state of hypertonia in which opposing skeletal muscles are locked in a continuous or sustained state of cocontraction.
What is rigidity?
500
The awareness of position sense and posture
What is proprioception?