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Wernicke’s aphasia results in:

This occurs when the firing rates of muscles are disrupted resulting in loss of smooth reciprocal movement, or when the CNS loses its ability to direct movement activity that requires accuracy.

During a treatment session with your patient who sustained a T4 SCI, you are working on transitions from supine→side lying→sitting and your patient begins to complain of blurred vision, ringing in the ears, lightheadedness, and states that she feels like fainting once your sit her up.  She is most likely experiencing: 

A stereotypical spastic tonal pattern in which the upper extremities are held fixed against the body with the shoulder adducted, elbow flexed, forearm supinated with wrist/fingers flexed is typically seen with which of the following diagnoses?

This technique is used to treat cupulolithiasis and involves rapid positional movements to remove the crystal from the cupula.

You are treating a patient who is s/p CVA.  You note that she has difficulty pointing to a target correctly or guaging distances correctly during gait.  How would you document this in your note?

Behavior is most often a problem area with patients recovering from a diagnosis of __________.

This is the alternative movement strategy that replaces typical movement patterns when age-related changes or impairments prevent the use of the typical patterns of coordination.  An example would be to hook the unaffected leg under the affected leg to accomplish rolling from supine to side lying. 

The period of areflexia or flaccid paralysis and absence of all spinal reflexes below the level of the lesion in an SCI is known as: 

The first step in the achievement of motor learning is: