Motor Learning & Control & Misc
Learning how to perform a skill well, extract cues from environment. performance is better than in the cognitive stages, can continue for varying periods of time, may never progress past this stage if they do not invest in skill development
What is the Associative stage of motor learning?
Grade described as “more marked increase in muscle tone through most of the range of motion, but affected part easily moved.”
What is level 2 of the Modified Ashworth Scale?
Spasticity or contracture of the plantar flexors effecting GT.
What is a CVA patient that has difficulty bearing weight on the LLE and is unable to advance the tibia forward and shorten the end of stance phase on the left.
Modified Ashworth Scale
What is the assessment that measures muscle tone?
Muscles to concentrate on with a T12 SCI individual to prepare for ambulation.
What is lower trap, latissimus, triceps?
Inhibition, procrastination, and self awareness
What is the description of tests for executive function?
Active weight bearing of LEs with proper alignment of limbs and trunk.
What inhibition technique is effective in decreasing tone in a patient with spasticity?
Diagnosis of a patient that can independently transfer with a sliding board from a W/C to a level surface.
What is a C6 level SCI?
Providing the patient with a series of numbers.
What is testing long-term memory?
Communication disorder characterized by the inability to communicate
What is a Dysarthria?
Considered both an UMN and LMN disease and is characterized by overworked and damaged in weakened, denervated muscles with a typical survival rate of 5 years.
What is ALS?
Pressure ulcers, contractures, correct fit and type of W/C.
What are the precautions for a patient with SCI that is W/C bound?
A group of muscles that are activated to maintain balance in a patient who is demonstrating appropriate balance responses after the PTA provides moderate perturbation force that displace the patient anteriorly.
What is hip extensors?
Demonstrates a generalized reflex response to painful stimuli; patient reacts inconsistently and non-purposeful stimuli.
What is Level II of the Rancho Los Amigos Level of Cognitive Functioning?
Symptoms of personality changes, difficulty concentrating, planning and impulsivity.
What is the frontal lobe?
Designed to evaluate the self-perceived handicapping effects imposed by dizziness.
DHI-Dizziness Handicap Inventenory (DHI)?
A group of facilitation techniques used to assess functional combined movement of rotation and diagonals performed by the UE’s and LE’s with the purpose of increasing strength, and ROM.
What is PNF?
This patient's exam may consist of only observation during functional activities until the patient is able to cooperate and is less agitated.
What is the examination of a patient with TBI?
Balance assessment that test performance on multiple daily activities, including turning, stepping up or down, and reaching
Berg Balance Scale
Cranial Nerve that assesses swallowing.
What is Cranial Nerve IX?
What feedback is appropriate during early motor learning for a transfer from the mat table to a WC when the patient cannot coordinate the movement even after numerous attempts.
What is tactile and visual feedback?
This type of stroke affects mainly balance and coordination.
Exhibits the ability to maintain stability and orientation with the center of mass over the base of support without movement.
What is postural control?
Difficulty maintaining movement that commonly occurs in patients with Parkinson’s Disease?
What is rigidity?
Symptoms of a sudden drop in BP, a severe headache, flushing and sweating above the SCI injury level, and a drop in heart rate.
What is autonomic dysreflexia?