week 5: stroke rehab & therapeutic management (pt 2) Flashcards
Resistance of muscles to passive stretch or elongation. Amount of tension a muscle has at rest.
May be normal or abnormal.
Tone
The CNS impairment can disturb tone. T or F
True
What is spasticity:
abnormal tone increased, involuntary, velocity-dependent muscle tone
Spasticity is a UMN or LMN disorder?
UMN: (hypertonia)
Hypotonicity or ________ is present immediately after stroke
Flaccidity
_____ emerges early in stroke following ______ with -90% of cases and occurs on the hemiplegic side
Spasticity; Flaccidity
Typical patterns of spasticity influence resting ______ and limit active movement of synergetic _______
posture; patterns
Tight-fisted hand with elbow flexed and held tightly against the chest or stiff extended knee with a plantarflexed foot is common. This is known as
Posturing of the limbs
The automatic adjustment of postural mm. that occurs normally in preparation for and during a movement task
Synergistic pattern
a massed patterns of movement ; movements are bound together is an example of
abnormal synergies
Flexor synergy:
Observer more commonly in ______
Possibly due to ______ reflex bringing your hand to your ______
UE
primitive; mouth to feed
Extensor synergy:
Observed more commonly in _____
Possibly due to ______ reflex to ______
LE
stand
UE Flexion Synergies
Shoulder girdle:
Shoulder:
Elbow:
Forearm:
Wrist:
Finger:
LE Extension Synergies
Hip:
Knee:
Foot/Ankle:
Which neuropathic facilitation model uses reflexive synergies to define the stages of motor learning and recovery following neurologic injury?
Brunnstrom