L7: Methods of Eliciting Movement Recovery in the Neurological Patient Flashcards
What are 10 Methods of Enhancing via Eliciting Movement Recovery in a neurological patient?
- Handling and Choice of training position
- Augmented Feedback
- Mental Practice
- Constraint‐Induced Therapy
- Electrical Stimulation
- Progressive Resistance
- Strength Training
- Treadmill Training
- Destabilising surfaces
- Emerging Technologies
What is enhancing with handling?
What are 3 things that handling techniques (provide control where joints are unstable due to weakness or sensory loss) that can be used for in a neurological patient?
provide control where joints are unstable due to weakness or sensory loss
- elicit selective activation of muscles
- add missing components thus reducing compensations
- guide normal performance of movements
What are 3 things that handling techniques (provide sensory input) that can be used for in a neurological patient?
- primary sensory loss
- sensory inattention
- reduce overactivity or abnormal movements
What is training position for Enhancing Position and environment and Considerations with handling with a neurological patient?
Training should be as functional as possible
What are 4 characteristics of Base of Support for Enhancing Position and environment and Considerations with handling with a neurological patient?
- The supporting surface
- The body part in contact with it
- The relationship of the whole body and the supporting surface
- Acts as a reference point for movement
What are 2 characteristics of the Acceptance of Base of Support (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- Ability to adjust appropriately to the contours of the supporting surface
- Ability to accept a base of support
- eccentrically lengthen muscle
- produce activity in relation to the base of support
What are 2 characteristics of the size of the Base of Support (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- smaller BOS raises muscle activity
- larger BOS reduces muscle activity
What are 2 characteristics of the nature of the Base of Support influencing muscle activity (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- hard unyielding surfaces raise muscle activity
- soft, yielding surfaces reduce muscle activity
What are 2 characteristics of the bias towards automatic or voluntary movement (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- Consider normal performance of the task
- Handling can be used to encourage more automatic performance of functional tasks
What are 2 characteristics of the speed of movement- balance with effect o muscle activity (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- Performing functional tasks at extremely slow speeds is effortful and novel
- Generally handle to encourage movement at as close to normal speed as safe and appropriate – maintain quality of mvt
What are 2 key points of control (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- Areas of the body from which movement can be most effectively controlled
- Choice depends on the individual’s response to facilitation of movement
What are 3 proximal key points of control (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- trunk (central key point)
- pelvis
- shoulder girdle
What are 2 distal key points of control (handling considerations) for a neurological patient?
- hands
- feet
The training environment can be structured to facilitate _____ recovery
movement
What are 4 features of structuring the training environment in a neurological patient?
- to assist with orientation to upright
- to provide movement cues
- to make tasks easier to practice
- Help to replace an essential component (augment feedback)
- to enable safe independent practice
- Forced –> ties up unaffected side (eg. arm) and also challenge (eg. reach out of BOS)
_____ is considered an important variable in motor skill learning
Feedback
What are 2 types of performance related feedback?
- Task‐intrinsic feedback
- the sensory‐perceptual information that is a natural part of performing a skill
- ‘Ideally where you want them to leave with intrinsic feedback
- Augmented feedback (extrinsic feedback)
- adding to or enhancing task‐intrinsic feedback with an external source
- Sense of where you are
What are 4 characteristics of augmented feedback?
- The role of the therapist is to provide feedback that is likely to assist learning in the most effective way
- Feedback should be used in a focused and deliberate way
- Tailored to the client’s mix of impairments
- Guided by evidence where available
- Intrinsic feedback mechanisms must be used for efficient performance of functional tasks. Therefore during task practice
- Must gradually withdraw various forms of extrinsic feedback
What are 7 types of augmented sensory feedback used during task practice?
- Visual
- Auditory
- Kinematic
- EMG
- Somatosensory (Tactile and Proprioceptive)
- Thermal
- Vestibular
What are 2 types of videos for visual feedback?
- Real‐time
- Playback analysis with client
How can you progress attention for visual feedback?
Progress attention
- from task being practised
- to the functioning environment
What are 3 progressions in the manipulation of the amount of visual feedback?
- From bright to dim environments
- From visually simple to challenging environments
- Progress to balance retraining without vision if appropriate
What is visual scanning for visual feedback?
Train scanning for attention to body and visual field
What does Visual Restoration Therapy look like (visual feedback)?
What is visual feedback about?
Visual feedback about weight distribution and weight shift activity
What is mirrow therapy for visual feedback?
Move non-paretic arm while looking in a mirror that gives the impression that the paretic limb is moving
What are 5 features that have no significant treatment effects when it comes to visual feedback devices?
- symmetry of weight distribution
- postural sway
- balance control
- walking ability
- gait speed
What are 4 characteristics of auditory feedback during task training?
- verbal cuing as appropriate for:
- age
- receptive level
- dyspraxias
- level of consciousness
- use of volume for alertness and activation (voice/music)
- use of soft environmental sound (music) for relaxation of increased tone
- Development of co‐ordination, rhythm and timing:
- music
- voice
- metronome
What are the 3 parameters of gait for EAR (external auditory rhythms) to see improvement of stride length and comfortable gait speed?
- Time post stroke 16 days ‐ 32 months
- 20 ‐ 30 min/day
- 2 – 10 times a week for 3 ‐ 12 weeks
What are 4 characteristics of Portable weight distribution auditory feedback devices (for Auditory Feedback of force production or weight‐bearing)?
- Limited research
- Limb load monitor:
- load sensing pads
- buttocks
- whole foot
- forefoot
- Heel
- audio signal can be set to go on or off with load bearing or joint in particular range