Test 1 Flashcards
Symptoms
Subjective findings
Signs
Objective findings
Positive symptoms
Release of abnormal behaviors
Spasticity
Negative symptoms
Loss of normal behaviors
Motor cortex deficits
Motor weakness
Abnormal synergies
Coactivation
Abnormal muscle tone
Neural aspects of strength
Number of motor units recruited
Type of motor units recruited
Discharge frequency
Weakness
Inability to generate normal levels of force
Major impairment in those with UMN lesions
Paresis
Mild or partial loss of muscle captivity
From lesion in descending motor pathways
Interferes with central excitatory drive to the motor units
Paralysis or paresis
Decreased voluntary motor unit recruitment
Inability to recruit skeletal motor units to generate torque or movement
Reduced descending drive is associated with…
Failure to recruit high threshold motor units
Reduced ability to increase motor unit discharge to increase voluntary forces
More distally than proximally
Reduced excitatory input to the spinal motor neurons…
Reduces maximal voluntary power
Lesions to corticospinal centers
Can lead to loss of ability to recruit a limited number of muscles controlling movement
Inability to control individual joints
Mass movements called abnormal synergies
Abnormal synergies
Stereotypical patterns of movement that cannot be changed or adapted to changes in task or environmental demands
Reflect lack of fractionation
Muscles so strongly linked, movement outside of fixed pattern not possible
Fractionation
Ability to move single joint without simultaneously generating movements in other joint
Co activation
Common characteristic of unskilled early stages of learning
Not necessarily a result of impairment of function but rather a primitive form of coordinating
Spasticity
A motor disorder characterized by a velocity dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes with exaggerated tendon jerks resulting from hyper excitability of the stretch reflex
- abnormalities within segmental stretch reflex
Lesion in the descending motor systems result in…
Increase in alpha motor neuron excitability with a resulting increase in muscle tone and exaggerated tendon jerks
- I.e hypertonicity
Spasticity is a combination of
A decrease in stretch reflex threshold
Reflex hyper excitability
Enhanced stretch reflex can occur because…
The alpha motor neuron pool at the segmental levels is hyper excitable
The amount of excitatory afferent input is increased
Or both
Hyper excitability of alpha motor neuron pool can be due to
A loss of descending inhibitory input
Post synaptic denervation hyper sensitivity
Shortening of the motor neuron dendrites
Collateral sprouting of dorsal root afferents
Behavioral indications of spasticity can include:
Change in the resting position of a limb
Presence of characteristic movement patterns
Pendulum or drop test for what?
Spasticity
Hypotonicity
Impairments associated with cerebellar pathology
Hypotonia
Coordination
Intention tremor
Impaired error correction affecting motor learning
Lesions of the vermis and fastigial nuclei
Disturbances in axial and postural control, balance, speech deficits
Medial- axial
Lateral- distal