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When structuring your treatment activities you focus on decreasing the speed of the task while making the patient problem-solve the steps involved and relating each step to the overall task. You are working with a patient with damage to the ___ hemisphere.

While reviewing an initial evaluation you find that your patient has athetoid posturing, postural tremors and hemiballismus. During gait training it is especially difficult due to hemiplegia combined with hemianesthesia and bilateral cortical blindness. You check the chart and confirm your suspicion that the ___ artery was involved.

Mea has been receiving intervention to improve her functional abilities following a head injury. She still struggles with complex tasks that require critical thinking. When tired, she easily becomes stressed and irritable, although this is improving with practice, counseling and cueing. Yesterday she received virtual reality testing to gauge her response in an emergency and she performed poorly. This is most characteristic of someone in which level of the Rancho Los Amigos Levels of Cognitive Functioning? No Response Generalized Response Localized Response Confused/Agitated Confused/Inappropriate, Non-Agitated Confused/Appropriate Automatic/Appropriate Purposeful/Appropriate

The patient is instructed to sit in a chair, blindfolded. You then inform the patient that you are going to move their affected arm. As the arm is being moved you ask him to verbally describe the arm?s position or to put the less affected arm in the same position. This describes which of these tests?

You observe a patient attempting to take a step with the affected extremity. However, the resulting motion includes hip flexion, abduction, and external rotation. These motions are components of which synergy pattern?

Which of these is the least likely cause of skin breakdown in a patient who has had a stroke?

You are working with a patient’s affected extremity. Using appropriate manual contacts you elongate the target muscle group to a lengthened range, then quickly, but gently elongate the muscles further to stimulate a reflex response. This technique is known as…

Sitting behind a patient you lightly draw with your fingertip the letter Z on the skin overlying the right shoulder. You then ask the patient to identify the letter that you drew. This test assesses?.

You have been successful in improving your patient?s mobility and would now like to initiate activities to improve stability. Which of the following would be an appropriate position to achieve this?

Following a rear-end collision a patient sustained an incomplete cervical SCI. While working with this patient you note pallanesthesia and loss of proprioception on one side of the body and loss of pain and temperature sensation on the other. This is consistent with which of these syndromes?