Exam 1 Flashcards
What is the focus of the biomechanical FOR?
ROM, strength, endurance, ergonomics, pain influence on occupation
Is biomechanical remediative or adaptive?
Both!
How is assessment with biomechanical?
Formal assessment & observation.
Formal - goniometry, MMT, vitals measurement
Observation - completion of tasks
How is assessment with Rehabilitative?
Formal assessment and observation.
Formal - variety of assessments
Observation - functional performance occupational engagement
What kind of patient would you use rehabilitative FOR for?
SCI injuries because it’s permanent
What kind of patient would you use sensorimotor FOR for?
CNS pathology
What is the goal of sensorimotor FOR?
Goal ultimately is to improve motor performance - regain voluntary control of movement
How is sensorimotor assessed?
Assessed through formal assessment and observation
Formal - standardized and nonstandardized motor and sensory assessments
Observation - motor and sensory control during occupational engagement
What are usually the impairments for patients we use sensorimotor for?
Impairments - sensory & voluntary control of movement
What FOR would you use for people with brain injuries and mental health dysfunction resulting in impaired cognition?
Toglia’s Multicontextual FOR
What are the 5 approaches to intervention?
Create & promote, establish & restore, maintain, modify, and prevent
What does psychometrically sound mean?
That the assessment is accurate
Define cognition.
Refers to the ability of the brain to process, store, retrieve, and manipulate information.
What can cognitive deficits result from?
CVA, TBI, or disease
True or false
Cognition includes global and specific mental functions
True
What is the progression of assessment?
Arousal, orientation, attention, memory, and executive function
What are the 4 levels of Coma?
Profound - unresponsive
Semi-coma - light state coma, may groan or stir
Stupor - still lighter state of consciousness
Minimally conscious - speaks, does not respond appropriately
What are the 4 things people can be oriented to?
Person, place, time, and situation
What are the 3 types of attention?
Sustained - person’s ability to maintain attention for a period of time
Divided - ability to be able to alternate between tasks, attending to one task or more
Selective - focusing under distracting circumstances, with competing stimuli
What is the difference between remote and working memory?
Remote is the ability to pull from long term memory, like what year were you born
Working is the ability to memorize something long enough to use purposefully, like what did you have for breakfast? What did we do yesterday in therapy?
What is procedural memory?
Type of memory used to recall procedures or motor skills, like for driving
What is prospective memory?
Type of memory needed to complete things in the future, like remembering to take your medication or remembering to mow the lawn tomorrow
What is episodic memory?
Referred to as light bulb memories, like remembering a wedding or vacation or where someone was during 9/11
What is fund of knowledge?
Cultural and historical knowledge
What is an immediate cause of concern for safety?
Lack of insight
What is mental flexibility?
It is a component of selective attention, ability to switch back and forth between tasks
What is abstract thinking?
Thinking bigger than things being concrete in nature
What is confabulation?
Providing false information, related to loss of memory
What is disinhibition?
Unable to self-regulate and monitor socially accepted behavior
What is tangential speech?
Unable to concentrate on one idea at a time, jumping from thought to thought
What is Preservation?
Unable to stop activity after completion of a task
Define perception
Perception refers to the integration of sensory impressions into psychological meaningful information
What is visual agnosia?
Identifying familiar objects
What is prosopagnosia?
Individual should be able to recognize facial features and discriminate the differences in those features
What is simultagnosia?
Can an individual visually pull components of the image together to few the whole picture
What is Metamorphopsia?
Objects tend to look distorted and may be perceived as bigger, smaller, lighter, or heavier than they are