Nervous System Flashcards
High steps foot slaps down
Tabetic
Walking on toes at an accelerating pace
Festinating
Leg crossed while walking with short and slow steps
Scissors
Short, accelerating pace, posture forward leaning, head hips and knees flexed difficult to start and stop
Parkinsonian
Irregular non directive
Dystonic
Staggering and unsteady
Ataxia
High stepping
Equine
Feet or foot makes half circle with each step
Heliopod
Foot and toes lifted high , heel comes down heavily
Steppage
Legs far apart and weight shifting from side to side
Dystrophic
Paralyzed on one side, paralyzed limb swings outward foot drags arm on affected side does not swing freely
Hemiphlegic
Stiff short steps; toes catch and drag legs held together and hips and knees flexed with muscular rigidity or spasm
Spastic
The ability to perceive sensory stimuli
Stereognosis
Inability to perceive stimuli
Agnosia
Regulating mechanism for motor function
Motor center cerebellum extrapyramidal system
Reduce body movement in the absence of weakness or paralysis. Habitual like swinging of arms are limited or absent
Akinesia
Gross worm like movements of the body face or extremities purposeless movements of the hands and feet due to brain lesion
Athetosis
Prolonged twisting movements
Dystonia
For of chorea involuntary dramatic movements of arms and legs
Ballismus
Slow movement
Bradykinesia
Discrete jerky purposeless movement in the distal extremities and face irregular spasmodic movement beyond control
Chorea
Often psychotic origin and may be involuntary inhibited involves the same musculature each time in stereotyped movements of varying complexity.
Tic
Vary in direction amplitude rhythmicity parts involves speech and timing in relation to rest and activity
Tremors
Types of reflexes?
- Superficial /cutaneous reflexes
- Deep tendon reflex
- Reflexes to assess meningeal irritation
- Occulocephalic reflex or dolls eye phenomenon
- Occulovestibular reflex or caloric ice water test
