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Rehabilitation Flashcards

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What is rehabilitation practice based around concepts of?

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Impairment
Disability (activity limitation)
Handicap (Participation restriction)

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What is impairment?

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Problems in body function or structure such as a significant deviation or loss

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What is disability / activity limitation?

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Difficulties an individual may have in executing activities

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What is handicap/ participation restriction?

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Problems individual may have in involvement in life situations

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What is rehabilitation?

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The restoration of patients to their fullest physical, mental and social capability

“Getting back to work, sex and golf, not necessarily in that order”

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What is the conceptual definition of rehabilitation?

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A process of active change by which a person who has become disabled acquires the knowledge and skills needed for optimal physical, psychological and social function

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What is the service definition of rehabilitation?

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The use of all means to minimise the impact of disabling conditions and to assist people with activity limitaion to achieve their desired level of autonomy and participation in society

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Describe the speciality of rehabilitation medicine

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Involved with the prevention and reduction of activity limitation and participation arising from impairments, and the management of disability from a physical, psychological and vocational point of view

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What are Long-term Neurological Conditions (LTNC) defined as?

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Disease of, injury or damage to the nervous system whuch will affect the individual and their family in one way or another for the rest of their life

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How do Long-term Neurological Conditions usually occur?

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Sudden onset:

  • Acquired brain injury
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Stroke

Intermittent/ Inpredictable

  • Epilepsy
  • Early MS lead to marked variation in the care need

Progressive conditions:

  • Motor Neurone Disease
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Later stages of MS

Stable conditions:

  • Post-polio syndrome
  • Cerebral palsy in adults
  • Spina bifida in adolescence/ adults
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What are the physical problems from LTNC?

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  • Weakness (hemiparesis/paraparesis)
  • Loss of/ abnormal sensation
  • Increased or decreased ton/ spasticity
  • Visual disturbance, e.g. homonymous hemianopia
  • Loss of hearing
  • Loss of smell and taste
  • Swallowing and communication difficulties
  • Bladder and bowel difficulties
  • Pain syndrome
  • Seizures/ Epilepsy
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What cognitive proiblems may result from brain injury?

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  • Post-traumatic amnesia
  • Confusion/ disorientation
  • Severe memory problems (especially with recent events/ working memory)
  • Poor cencentration/ attention
  • Slowed thinking
  • Poor “executive functioning”
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What psychiatric/ behavioural problems may result after brain injury?

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  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Personal change
  • Irritability
  • “Childishness, selfishness, laziness”
  • Behabioural problems, including aggression disinhibition, apathy
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What is the assesment you would do in rehab?

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  • History and examination
  • Mobility
  • Activities of Daily living
  • Mood and cognition
  • Bladder and bowels
  • Communication and swallow
  • Skin, Vision and hearing
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What is the process of rehabilitation?

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  • Problem lists
  • Set goals
  • Identify barrier issues
  • Formulate management plan
  • Draw upon all relevant disciplines
  • Involve patient (family carers)
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What are “SMART Goals”?

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Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time limited
17
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Describe the use of multidisciplinary teams in rehabilitation?

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Most effectively delivered by a coordinated team of professionals

Work together towards same goal

Interventions may run parallel

Interdisciplinary: more integrated including joint sessions

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What is the multidisciplinary ethos in rehabilitation?

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  • A team process
  • Patient, family and/or carers the focus
  • Active partnership with others
  • Physicians: clear and important role
  • Role not always be paramount
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What is spasticity?

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Motor disorder characterised by a velocity dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes with exaggerated tendon jerks.

Disordered sensorimotor control resulting from an upper motor neurone syndrome (UMN) lesion, presenting as intermittent or sustained involuntary activation of muscles

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What are some of the complications of spasticity?

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  • Poor seating and lying positions
  • Sleep difficulties and fatigue
  • Dressing and hygiene issues
  • Pain, spasms and associated reactions
  • Communication and feeding problems
  • Pressure sores and contracture
  • Poor self-image and relationship issues
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How do you manage spasticity?

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  • Prevention, prevention and prevention!
  • Multidisciplinary team approach
  • Physical therapy
  • Exclude exacerbating factors
  • Oral antispasticity agents
  • Focal treatment with Botulinum toxin
  • Drug treatment not always necessary
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Where does rehabilitation take place?

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  • Acute hospital
  • Rehabilitation ward
  • Outpatient centre
  • Community facilities (e.g. local sports hall
  • Vocational rehabilitation service
  • In the patients home
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What are the benefits of rehabilitation?

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  • Greater independence
  • Greater chance of getting home or remaining at home
  • Increased comfort and dignity
  • Increased chance of remaining in/ returning to work
  • Improved quality of life
  • Reduced need for care/ assistance
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What secondary complications should you try to prevent?

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  • Pressure sores
  • Chest infections
  • Deep venous thrombosis
  • Malnutrition
  • Constipation
  • Musculoskeletal pain
  • Contractures
  • Low morale and depression
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What is aquired brain injury (ABI)?

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  • Head injury (traumatic brain injury)
  • Haemorrhagic (e.g. SAH)
  • Hypoxic/ anoxic (e.g. out of hospital cardiac arrest)
  • Metabolic (e.g. hypoglycaemic)
  • Infective (meningitis, encephalitis)
26
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What are important predictors in the classification/ severity of head injury?

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GSC

Length of loss of consciousness

Post-Traumatic amnesia

27
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How do you classify severe head injury?

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GCS 3-8

PTA 1-7

28
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How do you classify moderate head injury?

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GCS 9-12

PTA 1-24 hours

29
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How do you classify Mild head injury?

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GCS 13-15

PTA less than 1 hour

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