L5: Movement and impairment abnormalities after stroke Flashcards
What are the 4 types of strokes?
What are the outcomes post stroke? Best and worse?
What are 5 stages (processes) of a stroke?
- Lesions of cortical motor areas and their projections
- Decreased descending input to spinal motor neurons
- Reduced activation of motor units
- Impaired muscle activation in timing, number, fatigability
- Weakness and loss of dexterity (Nerves unable to repolarise)
Neurological illness
- Central and motor fatigue
- Constantly trying to reset
- Possible disuse
What are 8 functional tasks of daily living (movement difficulties) that are affected after a stroke?
- Rolling
- Sitting up
- Speaking
- Reaching
- Walking
- Running
- Jumping
- Standing up
Which impairments should be assessed first?
Functional then primary
What are 7 primary impairments after a stroke?
- Hemiplegia or hemiparesis (weakness)
- Biggest impact (eg. spasticity does not impact on function as much)
- Spasticity – later lecture for detail
- Sensory
- Visual
- Perceptual
- Emotive
- Cognitive
What is hemiplegia or hemiparesis (primary impairment) after a stroke?
Unilateral paralysis/paresis on the side of the body contralateral to the brain lesion
- Eg. Right CVA –> left hemiplegia
What are 2 symptoms of hemiplegia or hemiparesis (primary impairment) after a stroke?
- loss of movement varies with size and site of lesion
- range from total paralysis to loss of selectivity of distal movements
Quite flaccid at the start –> activation will improve slowly
What is cerebral diathesis?
Cerebral diathesis –> whole brain begins to die
- Use it or lose it
- Brain reliant on the balance of inhibition and excitation –> lose this balance –> Knock on effect –> brain shuts down its use –> secondary disuse
- Early rehab is key to prevent secondary decay
What are the primary abnormalities in hemiplegia or hemiparesis after a stroke?
- There may also be weakness on the side of the body ipsilateral to the brain lesion
- Strength was 65% to 89% of normal on the ipsilateral side
- “weaker and stronger sides” vs
- “affected and unaffected sides”
What are the 2 primary abnormalities (motor decificit with certain lesions) in hemiplegia or hemiparesis after a stroke?
- Ataxia
- Cerebella, sensory, vestibular, motor
- Slowness of movement
- Motor unit recruitment, somatosensory loss.
What is a primary abnormality (lacunar infarcts) in hemiplegia or hemiparesis after a stroke?
Lacunar infarcts in internal capsule - discrete motor lesions
What is a primary abnormality (lacunar infarcts) in hemiplegia or hemiparesis after a stroke?
Lacunar infarcts in internal capsule - discrete motor lesions
What is a primary abnormality (MCA) in hemiplegia or hemiparesis after a stroke?
MCA - movement worse in UL than LL
What is a primary abnormality (ACA) in hemiplegia or hemiparesis after a stroke?
ACA - movement worse in LL than UL
- Eg. Anterior cerebral artery problem –> loss at legs vs arms
What are primary abnormalities for stroke of the posterior cerebral artery?
significant speech issues
What are the primary abnormalities for the arterial territory of stroke?
What are 4 types of lesions (in terms of arteries)?
- Middle Cerebral Artery
- Anterior Cerebral Artery
- Posterior Cerebral Artery
- Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery
What are the 2 prominent motor abnormalities following stroke?
- Weakness
- Loss of dexterity/ fractionation of movement
- Not coordination (as it ties in with cerebellar damage)
What are the 3 prominent motor abnormalities (loss of fractionation of movement) following stroke?
- Ability to isolate movement to a single muscle, joint or limb
- “Isolated movement” / “selective movement”
- Impaired ability to co-ordinate muscle activation - timing
- Not getting the impulses provided to the muscle
What are the 4 motor abnormalities (motor control errors) following stroke?
- Tendency to activate incorrect muscle for particular motor task
- Too strong a muscle contraction for the needs of the movement in compensation for poor control
- Tendency to move the intact side instead of the affected side
- Correct activation of muscles but incorrect spatial and temporal relationship between muscles
What are the 5 motor abnormalities (Overactivity / Excessive Muscle Activity) following stroke?
- Use of too much effort in trying to carry out a task can produce abnormal patterns
- Sometimes called “effort tone”
- Eg. stick tongue out when writing (when concentrating)
- Excessive muscle activity is seen when usual synergists are weak
- Seen in muscles capable of strongest activation
- Often occurs on intact side as the person uses maximum effort to perform a task
What does the combination of ‘weakness’, ‘fractional difficulties’, ‘motor control errors’, ‘overactivity’ lead to?
- Tendency to develop abnormal patterns when attempting voluntary movement
- Becomes easier but incorrect pattern (compensating) –> bad movements
- Often described as “flexor and extensor synergies” – FALSE TERM BUT GOOD WAY TO COMMENCE DISCUSSIONS.
What are 4 common patterns of abnormal movements of the upper limb flexors following a stroke?
- scapular elevation and retraction
- shoulder flexion and abduction
- elbow flexion
- forearm supination
What are 4 common patterns of abnormal movements of the upper limb extensors following a stroke?
- scapular protraction
- shoulder adduction and internal rotation
- elbow extension
- forearm pronation