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Dynamic postural control is also known as what?

Sitting on ___ can facilitate postural mechanisms through intrinsic feedback mechanisms? 

Money management, functional communication and socialization, and health maintenance is:

Does MS affect UMN or LMN? 

What is the reduction in response to a repeatedly performed movement?

What is defined as the ability to maintain the COM within the BOS? 

This disorder involves dysfunction of the Basal Ganglia.

What two things are used as anticipatory cues before any movement occurs?

What is the most widely used parameter to assess walking?

Characterized by pain, ANS symptoms, edema, atrophy, and movement disorders.

Chronic debilitating disease resulting from demylination of the CNS.

Which of the following is not true of epidural hematomas?

Strategies for dual-task walking include:

4 categories of motor skill

Which is NOT one of the locomotor task requirements for gait?

50% of persons suffering from this condition will experience changes in the autonomic nervous system. 

What PNF pattern is described by hip flexion, abduction, and internal rotation?

Which part of the brain plans coordinated movements to accomplish a task?

Secondary injury occurs from trauma or rapid acceleration/deceleration of the brain.  

Cognition is…

Practicing walking with added head turns and cues to "speed up" or "slow down" tests the patient's:

A pt. is unable to maintain gaze stability while walking and jumping. What is most likely affected?

The PTA notices that his patient has a backward trunk lean during gait. This may be muscle weakness of:

TBI is the leading cause of injury related death and disability in the USA

Central cord syndrome effects what three tracts? 

A patient experiences a CVA in the ant cerebral artery. What’s affected?

Occlusion that results in contralateral sensory loss and weakness in the face and UE.

Brown-Sequard effects what part of the spinal cord

Motor control occurs because of physiological processes that happen at all but which level? 

The primary function of the ___ is regulation of movement, postural control, and muscle tone.

High stepping is an intervention used to facilitate 

Which of the following activities would best address improving hip balance strategies?

Which part of the brain plans coordinated movements to accomplish a task?

Antegrade amnesia is:

Due to complex neurological and mechanical processes, what is the ability to maintain/change posture & movement?

What is a key contributor to motor learning? 

This intervention involves alternatively looking at 2 objects in the near visual field (only eyes move)

What is being tested when the Eply Maneuver is being done?

The goal of PNF is to promote functional movement through:

Which is not a level of memory?

Post CVA, spasticity often initially develops in the muscles of the…

What is the most common peripheral vestibular pathology? 

Which type of practice leads to improved retention and motor learning?

Interventions to improve independent standing are best addressed without the use of the patient's UEs.  

In regards to CNS, this occurs from acceleration and deceleration.

Which would be considered stability?

Which of the following is not considered a component of the Postural Control System? 

Time when both feet contact ground simultaneously during gait. 

Which is NOT a common place where plaques can form in MS?

For fastening the driver's seat belt, which PNF pattern would be best practice?

What should be avoided with a patient who has MS?

Using tactile cues is what kind of motor learning? 

A patient presents with nystagmus and vertigo, and has been diagnosed with BPPV. What intervention would be best? 

A PTA gives their patient augmented feedback about the quality of their gait. This is BEST known as:

SCI that effects varying degrees of lower extremity, trunk, pelvic, and organ involvement; but UE is sparred.

Which of the following standing activities would be best for a patient with flexor hypertonicity?

Which of the following is NOT a neurobehavioral impairment of a TBI?