Practice trial after
explanation -- eyes closed --
say 'now' when feeling the
touch -- face + body
How many times for vibration?
If absent: further
testing:
proprioception (DCML)
Anotações:
practice with 'up' and 'down'
- hand placement on bone segments, isolate joints
- at least 5 movements in random order
- great toe, ankle, thumb, wrist, elbow.
- test order: distal to proximal
Possible further tests:
Stereognosis (contralateral
posterior parietal cortex, S2)
Anotações:
Must have normal light touch and language to begin with
- assess both sides
- use at least 6 objects, 3 per hand
Possible further tests:
Graphesthesia (contralateral
posterior parietal cortex)
Anotações:
light touch must be intact
- 'name the letter or number that is written on your palm'
- numbers 1-9, letters
- no lifting of the pen
- 5 trials per hand
'right, left, or both?' --
randomize order -- at
least 4 bilateral contacts.
Motor Screening
Tone
Hypertonic: more likely
UMN. Hypotonic: more
likely LMN
Spasticity: SCI, CP, Stoke
Strength
Start with 3/5. If
completed, add
resistance. If unable,
remove gravity.
Pronator drift (10 sec)
UMN: motor cortex, premotor cortex, internal capsule, pyramids
Coordination
Finger-to-nose
Rapid pronation/supination on thigh
10 sec rapid pronation and supination.
Dysdiadochokinesia: cerebellum
Brady/ hypokinesia: basal ganglia
Rapid finger and foot tapping
10 sec. 'as quickly as possible with large amplitude
Dysmetria: cerebellum
Hypo/ bradykinesia: basal ganglia
Eye movement coordination
CN screen
CN 2
Visual Fields (optic nerve, optic chiasm, optic tract, LGN,
optic radiations, visual cortex) ----------- 'look at my nose at
all times' -- 'say now when you see my finger' -- at least one
practice trial -- cover one eye at a time -- superior temporal,
inferior temporal, superior nasal, inferior nasal.
Anotações:
Documentation: L eye: full vision in all quadrants.
R eye: vision restriction in superior temporal quadrant.
Pupillary light reflex
CN II, CN III, Brainstem nuclei,
parasympathetic pathway