TBI -- Medical Management
This is the leading cause of TBI in elderly individuals (especially >75 y/o)
What are falls?
These secondary complications could occur for a patient in RLA I-III
What are contractures, skin breakdown, and pulmonary issues?
This type of gait deviation/pattern is common in patients with cerebellar dysfunction
What is ataxic gait?
This participation level outcome measure should be used for a patient with Parkinson Disease
What is the PDQ-8 or PDQ-39
This is the cause/pathophysiology of Huntington's disease
What is a autosomal dominant heterogenerative disorder?
This type of injury occurs when the brain has injuries in two opposite locations due to rapid acceleration/deceleration phases during impacts
What is a coup-contrecoup brain injury?
These medical diagnoses have been linked to cerebellar dysfunction
What are strokes, tumors, toxicity, trauma, infeciton, multiple system atrophy, idiopathic late onset cerebellar ataxia, and hereditary disorders?
These are the 4 cardinal impairments of parkinson disease
What are Bradykinesia, Tremor, Rigidity, and Postural Instability?
This is the primary neural structure that is affected by Huntington's disease
What is the striatum / basal ganglia?
This is the normal intracranial pressure range
What is 4-15 mmHG?
This type of learning should be utilized for patients in RLA levels IV-VI
What is errorless learning?
This examination finding is tested by having the patient perform rapid alternating movements
What is dysdiadochokinesia?
To provide external visual cues for a patient is Parkinsonism, lines should be placed in this orientation
What are parallel lines perpendicular to direction of walking?
This is the average lifespan once someone has symptom onset of Huntington's disease
What is 15-18 years?
These are signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressure
What are decreased arousal, impaired consciousness, severe headache, vomiting, and increased BP/Decreased HR
A patient has difficulty continuing a single task for longer than 10 seconds. This patient would be demonstrating a deficit in this type of attention
What is sustained attention?
This intervention has been used as an attempt to decrease cerebellar ataxia
What is weighting of limbs, torso, and assistive devices
These types of PT interventions are considered "should provide" for patients with parkinsonism
What is aerobic intensity exercise, resistance training, balance training, external cueing, community based exercise, gait training, task-specific training, behavior change approach, and integrated care?
These are the 3 main domains of signs/symptoms of Huntington's disease
What is motor, cognitive, and psychiatric?
This would be the score on the glascow coma scale for a patient that has eye opening to pain from sternum/limb/supra-orbital pressure, withdrawal response or assumption of hemiplegic posture, and moans/groans with no speech
A patient in RLA level VI can determine that a problem is occurring when it is actually happening. This would be an example of this type of awareness
What is emergent awareness?
What is sensorimotor adaptation?
A patient with parkinson disease that affects bilateral limbs, but demonstrates no impairments to balance. This would be their score on the Hoehn and Yahr scale
What is a 2 out of 5?
These are interventions that a PT should provide for a patient with Huntington's disease
What is aerobic/strength training at moderate intensities and one-on-one gait training?