Week 5

Question 1

Types of sensory receptors

Answer 1

cutaneous sense organs
proprioceptors
photoreceptors
mechanoreceptors
chemoreceptors

Question 2

sensory impairment

Answer 2

light touch
temperature (exaggerated or almost none)
pain

Question 3

Vision issues

Answer 3

double vision
blurred vision
partial loss in one or both eyes (more common)
hemianopsia
peripheral vision loss

Question 4

How to help do a task with sensory and perceptual issues

Answer 4

make the person more aware, and then start the task

Question 5

Tips to manage sensory deficits

Answer 5

sensory input (touching, tracing hand, compression)
WB through extremities
mental practice (self-talk)
skin integrity
mirror box therapy

Question 6

Motor imagery therapy

Answer 6

mental practice
“What would it feel like if I did this action?”
Perceptual experience in absence of actual stimuli

Question 7

Prism glasses

Answer 7

refracts light before entering eyes, making sure it is directed onto the same area of each retina
change perception of visual midline

Question 8

Neglect

Answer 8

impaired awareness on one side of body
No actual vision problem
L sided neglect is most common

Question 9

Tx strategies for neglect

Answer 9

constraint induced therapy - constraining movements of unaffected limb to force the use of affected limb for all functional tasks throughout the day
mirror as feedback
prism glasses
eye patches