miscellaneous

Question 1

gait: stooped shuffling
loss of arm swing
postural instability
frezzing

Answer 1

parkinsons

Question 2

gait: stiff, like walking through mud, scissor gate

Answer 2

spinal cord lesion

Question 3

gait: wide based
drunken
tandem gait poor

Answer 3

cerebellar diseae

Question 4

gait: small shuffling steps
difficulty in starting to walk
better cycling on bed

Answer 4

cerebrovasuclar disease

Question 5

what part of the midbrain are the pyramids in>?

Answer 5

medulla oblongata

Question 6

what does the spinothalamic tract do?

Answer 6

course touch, pain and temp

Question 7

what does the spinocerebellar tract do?

Answer 7

unconscious proprioception

Question 8

what does the medial lemiscus tract do?

Answer 8

proprioception and fine touch

Question 9

where is the problem if there is a defect in eye movement?

Answer 9

midbrain

Question 10

where is the problem if defect in chewing?

Answer 10

pons

Question 11

where is the problem if defect in swallowing?

Answer 11

medulla

Question 12

most common cause of a resting tremor?

Answer 12

parkinsons

Question 13

common causes of postural tremor?

Answer 13

physiological
essential tremor
drugs
anxiety
thyrotoxycosis

Question 14

common cause of intention tremor?

Answer 14

cerebellar disease

Question 15

what is coning?

Answer 15

when tonsils of cerebellum compress on brainstem

end up not breathing and dyeing

Question 16

if cant lift arms up ..they have what weakness?

Answer 16

prox muscle weakness

Question 17

if cant open a jar,, they have what weakness?

Answer 17

distal muscle weakness

Question 18

incresed tone
brisk relfexes
weak extensors in arms
weak flexors in legs

Answer 18

UMN lesion

Question 19

wasting
fasciculation
decreased tone
decreased or absent reflexes
flexor plantars

Answer 19

LMN lesion

Question 20

in muscle disease what will you see

Answer 20

wasting
reduced tone
decreased or absent reflexes

Question 21

in a neuromusclular junctuon problem you will see what>

Answer 21

fatuigable weakness
normal or decreased tone
normal tendon relfexes
NO Sensory symptoms

Question 22

sensory level loss suggest what?

Answer 22

a spinal cord lesion

Question 23

what type of symtoms are these?

bradykinesia
hypomimia
hypophionia
reduced arm swing
impaired postural reflexes
assymetry in PD

Answer 23

extrapyramidal/ parkinsonism