Cerebellar Dysfunction

Question 1

Poor prognostic factors for stroke are

Accepted Answer

multiple comorbidities, damage to deep nuclei, delayed treatment, older people

Question 2

Cerebellar-cognitive-affective syndrome cause

Accepted Answer

visuospatial dysfunction, agrammatism, executive dysfunction, dysprosodia, personality changes

Question 3

Prognosis of a cerebellar damage relies on

Accepted Answer

severity, source of damage, age, location, coexisting medical conditions, volume of damage

Question 4

Cerebellar strokes are more common than cerebral strokes

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

What type of exercise would you want to use to improve muscle fatigue?

Accepted Answer

submaximal resistance

Question 6

What are the key characteristics to treating a cerebellar patient?

Accepted Answer

move slow vs fast, big BOS, do single joint over multijoint mvmnt

Question 7

What type of exercise would you want to use to improve cardiovascular endurance?

Accepted Answer

aerobic exercise

Question 8

No other brain infarction has a higher fatality rate than a cerebellar infarction

Accepted Answer

True

Questions 8