Exam 2 Flashcards
Disability
inability to perform activities usually expected in specific social roles that are customary for the individual or expected for the person’s status or role
Three components of physical therapy intervention
Coordination, communication, documentation
Patient/client related instruction
Procedural interventions
Restorative
Treat involved areas to remediate/improve function
Compensatory
Promote optimal function using residual abilities
Preventitive
Avoid potential future damage
Phase Models of Psycholsocial Adaptation
Shock, Anxiety, Denial, Depression, Internalized anger, externalized hostility, acknowledgement, adjustment
Strategies for Type A (high achievers)
Give good HEP
Strategies for perfectionists
Help patient find pleasure in accomplishing simple things
Strategies for authoritative personality
Engage in problem solving
Strategies for a passive-aggressive
Place responsibility for progress on patient, have patient make decisions about treatment, summarize progress
Positive coping strategies
Seeking control and information
Express emotion
Seeking social interactions
Negative coping strategies
Avoid control and information
Repress emotions
Withdrawal from social interactions
External locus of control
Other people or outside factors have control over outcomes
Have stress and anxiety in rehab
Internal locus of control
Person can affect his/her own circumstances
Quicker recovery, better motivation, more hope, more energy
Acute stress disorder
Symptoms that range in duration from 2 days to 4 weeks
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Acute: symptoms less than 3 mos
Chronic: symptoms beyond 3 mos
Motor control
Ability to regulate or direct the mechanisms essential to movement
Motor skills
Learned through interaction and exploration of the environment
Motor program
Abstract representation of movement that results in production of coordinated movement sequence
Motor plan
Idea or plan for purposeful movement that is made up of several motor programs
Short term change in neuroplasticity
Efficiency or strength of synaptic connections
Long term change in neuroplasticity
Organization and numbers of neural connections
Motor learning
Internal processes associated with practice or experience leading to relatively permanent changes in capacity for skilled behavior
Feedback
Response produced information received during or after the movement; monitor output for corrective actions