Rehab Management Strategies

Question 1

Recovery of movement

Answer 1

retropulsion - limits ability to forward flex + transfer weight forward during sit to stand

Question 2

what do you see in PD gait?

Answer 2

decreased gait velocity
decreased stride length
decreased foot clearence
festination
flat foot at contact
forward fall risk

Question 3

Tai Chi

Answer 3

improves quality of life, anxiety motor symptoms due to PD.
increases BERG/TUG scores

Question 4

Parkinson’s Wellness Recovery (PWR)

Answer 4

targets multiple motor symptoms
increases amplitude, large effort, high attention to action

Question 5

Festination occurs:

Answer 5

when there is a need to alter/ gait pattern to avoid an object, walk over a door threshold or change in floor surface.

Question 6

Interventions for freezing gait

Answer 6

place a target to step over
altering body weight distribution
cue to to take bigger steps