REHABILITATION SPECIALIST
(CSRS SET 2025) |GUARANTEED
ACCURATE ANSWERS |UPDATED
Types of stroke
(Lesson 2) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Ischemic: 87%
-Thrombotic
-Embolic
-Lacunar
Hemorrhagic: 13%
-Intracerebral
-Subarachnoid
Thrombotic Stroke (Ischemic) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 48% of all
strokes
-typically occurs during sleep
-slow progressive onset of deficits
-50% are associated with prior TIA
Embolic Stroke (Ischemic) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 26% of all
strokes
,-typically occurs while awake
-sudden, immediate deficits (sometimes seizures)
-11% are associated with prior TIA
Lucunar Stroke (Ischemic)
small vessel disease - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 13% of all strokes
-small infarct (>15-20 cm) deep in the brain
-onset can be gradual or sudden
-23% associated with proceeding TIA
-often pure sensory or motor symptoms
-typically no higher cortical functional involved
Intracerebral Hemmorhage (ICH) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 10%
of all strokes
-90% happen with the patient is under "no stress"
-major cause of "hypertension"
-onset may be gradual or sudden
-8% are associated with prior TIA
-direct correlation with high blood pressure/ hypertension
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 3% of
all stroke
-occurs often during strenuous activity
,-cause: rupture aneurysms and vascular malformations
-sudden onset
-7% are associated with preceding TIA
Left Stroke with Right Hemiplegia - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
Language/Perceptual problems
-expressive aphasia
-receptive aphasia
-global aphasia
-alexia, agraphia , acalculia
-apraxias: motor planning perceptual problems
(Impaired verbal and math skills with word letter discrimination
Left Stroke with Right Hemiplegia (BEHAVIORS) - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ -Slow, anxious, cautious, normal attention span
-underestimated abilities
-emotionally labile ( abrupt mood changes)
-quick to anger and/or become frustrated
Right Stroke with Left Hemiplegia - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Perceptual problems/ Distortion of physical reality
-visual spatial disorders :depth perception
-constructional relationships
, -directional concepts
-neglect, drawing abilities
-body schema perception disorders;
-perceptual language disorders
language
Right Stroke with Left Hemiplegia (BEHAVIORS) - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ -fast and impulsive
-short attention span
-overestimate abilities/ judgement
-denial of illness (anosognosia)
-lack of inhibition
-inability to express emotions /affect is flat
Cerebrum - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -frontal, parietal, temporal,
and occipital lobes
-consisting of two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure
-responsible for the integration of complex sensory and neural functions
and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity in the body.
initiates and coordinates movement and regulates temperature. Other
areas of the cerebrum enable speech, judgment, thinking and reasoning,
problem-solving, emotions and learning.