POA Flashcards
Validity:
A test actually measures what it is supposed to measure and that the results are correct or true
Reliability
The extent to which comparable results are achieved every time a test is repeated
Inter-rather reliability
Between different individuals
Intra-rather reliability
Between yourself doing multiple trials
Sensitivity
The probability of a positive test result in someone with the pathology
Specificity
The probability of a negative test result in someone without the pathology
Hardware issue:
- movement restriction/tissue limitation
- mechanical
- appears as movement or joint restriction
Software issue:
- movement coordination/motor control
- neuromotor or coordination issues
- still can appear as joint restriction or flawed stability or motor control
- potentially input or output flawed
- sometimes what looks like a hardware issue can be an underlying software issue (ex. Limited hip movement can occur secondary to where Lspine is unstable - looks like hardware but is a software issue)
3 knowledge systems:
- propositional knowledge
- personal knowledge
- professional craft knowledge
6 step assessment process according to Grieve:
- Listen
- Look
- Test
- Feel
- Record
- Assess
5Ds and 3Ns
- dizziness
- drop attacks
- diplopia
- dysarthria
- dysphagia
- nausea
- numbness
- nystagmus
Pottenger’s saucer:
- loss of kyphotic curve in upper Tspine
- gives presence of winging scapula
- can often be misdiagnosed
- correlation with this and digestive disorders
- affects Tspine vertebrae, nerve etc.
3 types of chest deformities:
- pigeon chest
- funnel chest
- barrel chest
9 factors influencing posture:
- neurological pathology
- muscle imbalances
- hypermobile joints
- hypomobile joints
- decreased muscle extensibility
- bony abnormalities
- leg-length discrepancies
- pain
- lack of postural awarensss
How to do breathing assessment:
Put hands on lateral rib cage, abdomen, and back to figure out where they are breathing (chest vs stomach), how symmetrical (in amount of movement and timing)
