Senses Flashcards
How many senses do we have?
- Sight
- Smell
- Taste
- Touch
- Hearing
- Proprioception
- Pain
- Hunger/Satiety “I’m Full”
- Bowel and Bladder [Book: Infant Potty Training]
- Temperature
- Fatigue/Tired (is it a sense?)
- Vibration
- Thirst
- Nausea
- Barognosis
- Kinesthesia
Barognosis
Guessing weight in hand with eyes closed
Proprioception
Move arm into a position
Kinesthesia
Move joint, lengthen and shorten
Anterolateral (Spinothalaminc)
Pain
Temp
Crude Touch
Dorsal Column- Medial Lemniscus
Proprioception (position or joint angle) Vibration Light touch/Discriminatory (2-point) (use aesthesiometer) o Most- hands o Least- back, back of legs
Other sensory besides tract
Cortical Traced figure (draw) (graphesthesia)- Much higher level of function to be able to determine what’s being drawn
Stereognosis (tactile recognition)- key in pocket
Double simultaneous stimulation (different sides of the body)
o Can do light touch, sharp touch,
o Must be able to differentiate and determine
Kinesthesia-
hold the sides of finger and test- don’t apply pressure up or down when testing
Do not be monotonous in testing (pt. will try to anticipate because of your pattern, so vary it) Test bilateral to get norms. Be random
Dysesthesia
Unpleasant or painful cutaneous experiences (tingling’s, pins and needles.
Astereognosis-
Inability to determine object from feeling only
Anesthesia
loss of sense
Hypoalgesia
Pain that should create an x amount of stimuli that doesn’t- perceive a painful stimuli as not as painful
Hyperalgesia
Pain that shouldn’t be super painful- abnormal heightened pain
Allodynia
Sense pain from non-noxious stimuli
Thigmesthesia
Ability to perceive light touch
Thigmanasthesia
Inability to perceive light touch
Trichoesthesia
Ability to feel the deflection of hair
Pallesthesia
Ability to pick up vibratory sense