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You are treating a 47 y/o man who is s/p stroke x 3 months. You are working on lower extremity strengthening to ready him for out of bed activities. He is attempting to perform short arc quads (SAQ) over a bolster. He demonstrates a sudden increased muscle firing, and he cannot lower his leg to the mat.  What would be an appropriate intervention to perform to assist your patient in suppressing this response?

Patient’s with injury to the temporal lobe of the left hemisphere of the brain may develop this type of condition in which they may say something such as “I hurt my stain, and it hurts broad” when attempting to say that “I hurt my arm and it hurts a lot”.

Your patient is demonstrating facial paralysis, inability to close one eye, drooping of the corner of the mouth, and difficulty with speech articulation.  Identify the cranial nerve involvement.  

You are treating a patient who is s/p CVA and the PT POC states that the patient’s balance is to be addressed.  In sitting, you toss a ball to the left side of your patient but he makes no attempt to adjust his body position to catch the ball and begins to fall to the left side.  This patient is demonstrating poor:

This area of the brain is the principal area involved in motor function.

Orientation x 2 refers to:

Superficial sensations includes all of the following except:

You are going to treat a patient in the hospital intensive care unit. Upon arrival your pt patient appears to be sleeping. You attempt to arouse him for his therapy session but he is only able to be aroused by strong, noxious stimuli and when you stop the stimuli he appears to fall into a deep sleep again. You would document his level of arousal as: 

The inability to maintain standing balance with feet together when the eyes are closed is termed a positive:

Which of the following is NOT a clinical symptom of spasticity?