SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Common Infections - ✔✔Meningitis, respiratory infections, UTI, surgical site
infections, cellulitis, urosepsis
✔✔Stages of motor learning - ✔✔*cognitive (what to do)
*Associative (how to do)
*Autonomis (how to succeed)
✔✔Cranial nerve dysfunction - ✔✔Visual disturbance, facial dropping, postural
instability, dysphagia, autonomic dysregulation
✔✔Athetiod - ✔✔Slow, involuntary, writhing movements
✔✔Ballisms - ✔✔Quick flailing movements
✔✔choreiform movements - ✔✔Continuous rapid & unpredictable movements
✔✔Agnosia - ✔✔Loss of ability to identify people or objects.
Visual, auditory or tactile
✔✔Apraxia - ✔✔Inability to perform purposeful movement
*ideomotor- unable to perform tasks on command
*ideational- unable to perform automatic tasks
*buccofacial- limitations and performing purposeful movement of lips, cheeks, tongue,
larynx and pharynx
✔✔central cord syndrome - ✔✔Presents as weakness & numbness in arms
* results from fall in with neck in hyperextention or with arthritis or spondylosis
* bowel/bladder issues
* able to walk however unable to grasp things
✔✔Brown-Sequard Syndrome - ✔✔1 side of spinal cord injured
Ipsilateral paralysis, loss of light touch sensation on side of lesion, loss of pain &
temperature sensation on contralateral side
✔✔Anterior cord syndrome - ✔✔Loss of muscle control, pain & temperature sensation
below lesion
No loss of proprioception or touch sensation
✔✔posterior cord syndrome - ✔✔Strength with no proprioception
, ✔✔cognition - ✔✔A complex collection of mental activities such as attention,
perception, comprehension, remembering and language
✔✔Domains of cognition - ✔✔Attention, categorization, memory, processing speed,
executive functions, metacognition
✔✔Attention - ✔✔Divided, alternating, selective, sustained, focused
✔✔Attention process training program (APT) - ✔✔Process specific approach to
cognitive rehab. Hierarchy organized by difficulty
✔✔Categorization - ✔✔Important in the speed of processing, problem-solving, and
other higher order cognitive processes.
* BI pt tend to categorize by single attribute only
✔✔Stages of Memory - ✔✔Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
✔✔Long term memory - ✔✔Explicit vs implicit
✔✔Executive Functions - ✔✔* complex cognitive processes that involve reasoning,
planning, judgment, initiation and abstract thinking
✔✔Cognitive rehab approaches - ✔✔*approach in systemic manner
*analyzing problems
*consider alternative solutions
*prioritizing solutions
*review outcomes
✔✔Metacognition (n) - ✔✔Awareness of thoughts
✔✔3 levels of metacognition - ✔✔1) awareness of deficits
2) awareness of functional implications
3) awareness to set realistic goals
✔✔Anosognosia - ✔✔Diminished self awareness and failure to recognize a personal
disability
✔✔Cognitive Rehab - Compensatory Approach - ✔✔*assumes some cognitive
functions can't be recovered
*focus on development of strategies
*functional application is important
✔✔Cognitive Rehab - Restorative Approach - ✔✔*repeated exposure & repetition
through experience