Assessment Of Motor Function

Question 1

How to measure strength:

Answer 1

1. Ask patient to grasp and squeeze two fingers of each hand. Compare the grasps for equality of strength.
2. Strength against Resistance: Ask the patient to resist when bending or straightening of the arm, hand, leg or foot being tested.

Question 2

Decortication

Answer 2

The patient’s arms, wrist and fingers are flexed with internal rotation and plantar flexion of the legs

Question 3

Decerebration

Answer 3

Extension of the arms and legs, pronation of the arms, plantar flexion and opisthotnos