Treatment/Management Flashcards
What should MSD management focus on rather than speech?
Communication
Focus on…
- Speech
- Extralinguistic
- Non-verbal cues
- Writing
- Gestures
What should long term goals focus on?
Maximize Effectiveness
Maximize efficiency
Maximize naturalness
What should short-term goals focus on?
- Facilitation techniques
- Restore lost function
- Reduce impairment
- Restore original function
What are compensatory techniques?
- Use compensatory rather than restoration when full restoration will not occur in the short term
- Compensate for the lost abilities
Is use of fascination and compensatory techniques appropriate?
Yes
What are SMART goals?
Specific
Measurable
Agreed upon
Realistic
Time based
What should you consider for management and decisions?
Medical diagnosis
Prognosis
Limitations
Environment and communication partners
Motivation and needs
Associated problems
Health care in general
5 approaches to management?
Medical intervention
Prosthetic management
Behavioral management
Alternative and augmentative communication
Counseling and support
Prosthetic intervention’s: Direct modification and alter rate?
Direction modification: palatal lift, nasopharyngeal obturator, and voice amplifier
Alter rate: pacing boards, metronomes, delayed auditory feedback and vocal intensity monitoring device
Prosthetic intervention to augment speech?
- AAC
- Picture, letter, word boards
- Computerized devices and apps
- Light pointers
- Switches
What is behavioral management ?
compensatory speech production and consciousness
What concepts of motor learning should influence treatment? Improvement in speech requires.
- Drill is essential
- Instruction
- Self learning
- feedback
- specificity of training
Principles of Neuroplasticity
- Use it or lose it
- Use it and improve it
- Specifity
- Repetition matters
- Intensity matters
- time matters
- salience matters
- age matters
- transference
- Interference
What is neurplasticity?
the mechanism by which the brain encodes experience and learns new behaviors
and also the mechanism by which the damaged brain relearns lost behavior in response to rehabilitation
Treatment: Specificity
Need to tap into the neural substrates for speech
Treatment: Repetition matters
LVST is a good model in voice.. they feel like they had a workout
Exact dosage hasn’t been determine yet, but if you look at exercise principles you will need higher reps
Treatment: Intensity matters
Dosage data for intensity is currently unknown, working longer doesn’t mean harder but it can be overused too
Treatment: Time matters
- the time of intervention initiation post-injury often dictates the intensity of rehab
- The earlier the better
Treatment: Salience matters
- repetitive movements versus skilled movements
- visual feedback may be important here, if you can make the connection for the patient visually they might work even harder
Treatment: Age matters
- Generally younger brains are more responsive to neuroplasticity than older ones, however, it occurs across a lifetime
- Important for setting treatment goals, are they reasonable but challenging enough?
Treatment matters: Interference
- Does use of certain compensatory strategies impede rehab
What is important regarding referrals and. treatment?
- Knowing our scope and when to refer a patient out
- sometimes a referral can be for….. second option, to develop a team, outside of your experience/competence level
How do you refer a patient?
- Discuss reasoning with patient and get agreement
- Speak with referring physician
- Contact the provider to whom you will refer