WK5-6 - Brain Impairment and PA Flashcards
What is the role of the parietal lobe?
Processes/interprets sensory info: perception, spatial awareness, manipulating objects and spelling
What is the role of the occipital lobe?
vision reception, processing and intepretation
What is the role of the cerebellum?
coordination of smooth voluntry movement
Maintains balance/equilibrium
Some memory for reflex motor activity
What is the role of the frontal lobe?
- planning/organising
- attention
- problem solving
- emotional and behaviour control
- social skills
- skilled motor performance
- expressing language (Broca’s area)
What is the role of the temporal lobe?
- hearing
- memory acquisition
- understanding language (Wernicke’s area)
- visual perception (recognition&categorising objects)
What is the role of the brain stem (pons, midbrain and medulla)?
- breathing
- HR
- swallowing
- reflex responses to visual/auditory input
- level of alertness
- regulating sleep/wake cycle
Expain the general organisation of motor control. Why is it important?
3 levels of control: SC, brain steam and forebrain
- organised both serially and parallel
- motor areas of cerebral cortex influence SC directly or indirectly through descending systems of brain stem
- all motor systems receive sensory inputs and under influence of 2 independent subcortical systems: basal ganglia and cerebellum
Ganglia & cerebellum act on cerebral cortex through relay nuclei in thalamus.
what are the 3 broad causes of BI?
- Dysgenesis - abnormal organ development during embryonic development (in womb) / disordered development of malformation
- trauma/injury - TBI
- disease / infection - may lead to a stroke, MS or parkinson’s
What is the aetiology / common features between CP and TBI?
- non-progressive
- can affect physical, cognitive and behavioural functioning (proportions different)
- in relation to Ex and PA for post-acute clients, there are common areas: benefits, Ax, prescription/programming, methods of promotion
Ex effects are treated collectively under BI in EXMD3070
What is CP?
Cerebral = brain
Palsy = paralysis
- umbrella term covering group of non-progressive (but changing) disorders of movements or posture 2ndary to lesion or abnormality in motor areas of developing brain
Lesion may occur (all overlap):
* antenatally - anytime prior to birth
* perinatally - during/immediately after birth (20-28wks) (4wks post birth is perinatal area
* postnatally - anytime after work
When does CP occur (%), provide timeline and aetiology?
Antenatal: ~80%
- Conception to pregnancy
- abnormal chromosomal, cerebral dysgenesis, fetal hypoxia ischaemia, foetal infection
Perinatal: ~6-10%
- labour/4wks after birth
- intrapartum hypoxia-ischaemia
Postnatal: ~15%
- neonatal complications
- postneonatal trauma or infection
What are the CP risk factors?
- cause is still rather unknown
- infection
- cytomegalovirus, rubella, herpes, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, zika virus, intrauterine infections, toxin exposure - infant illness
- bacterial meningitis, viral encephalitis, severe/untreated jaundice, bleeding in brain - pregnancy/birth
- low birth weight (incl. pre-term birth) - babies born <33wks = up to 30x higher CP rate
- intrauterine growth restriction e.g. due to foetal infection, multiple births, maternal smoking
- in utero death of co-foetus e.g. twin or triplet
What is the prevalence of CP?
- in developed countries, 2-2.5/1000 for past 40y
- in AUS, est. 33k in total pop.
What are the similarities between Spastic, Ataxic and Dyskinetic CP?
Abnormal pattern of posture/movement
What is the Manual Ability Classification System (MACS)?
Measures child’s ability to handly objects in important ADLs e.g. during play/leisure, eating and dressing
- hand objects easily/successfully
- handles most objects but with somewhat reduced quality/speed of movement
- handles objects with difficulty, needs help to prepare/modify activity
- handles limited selection of easily managed objects in adapted situations
- does not handle objects, has severely limited ability to perform simple actions
What is the distinction between Levels I and II of the MACS?
L1: limitations in handling very small/fragile/heavy objects require fine motor control, efficient coordination in both hands.
L2: perform same actvities in L1 but quality of performance decreased/slower. Commonly try to simplify handling objects e.g. using surface for support instead of holding it in hands.
What is the distinction between L2 and L3 of MACS?
- L2: handle most objects althoguh slower/reduced quality
- L3 commonly need help to prepare for activity/require adjustments to environment as ability to reach/handly objects are limited
Degree of independence related to supportiveness of environment
What is the distinction between L3 and L4 in MACS?
- L3 can perform selected activities if situatoin is prearranged, supervised with plenty of time.
- L4 need continuous help during activity, can at best participate meaningfully in parts of activity
What is the distinction between L4 and L5 in MACS?
- L4 can perform part of activity, need help continuously
- L5 might at best participate with simple movement in special situations. E.g. pushing buttons, occasionally hold undemanding objects.
What is dyskinetic movement?
- involuntary, uncontrolled, recurring occasionally stereotyped
what are the two types of dyskinetic movement?
- Choreo-athetotic (or athetoid) movement
- “unwanted/involuntary movements
- slow/writhing/relatively continuous movements
- affect distal parts more than prox
- affects face muscles and speech - may have characteristic grimacing
- muscle tone fluctuates - dystonic movement
- reduced activity
- No single dominant pattern (flex/ext), patterns fluctuate
- can be focal/generalised
- affects prox parts more
What is ataxic movement?
Poor musc control=clumsy voluntary movements
* issues with balance/depth perception
* difficulty walking - characteristic pattern
* intention tremor
* fine motor movements difficult
* 5-10% CP have ataxic movements
What does “mixed” movement disorders mean?
- many people with CP have more than one movement disorder, esp. as severity of BI increases
- spasticity + athetosis = most common mixed presentation