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Neurolo
Neurolo
Dr.Ada Anjumn
Name:
Age/Sex:
Occupation:
Address:
Contact No:
Marital Status:
Chief Complaint:
Medical history
- drug allergy
Surgical History:
- incision
- length
- duration
- procedure
Physiotherapy treatment:
- Aims
- Means
- Duration
- Place
Objective Examination:
On Observation:
General
- Built
- Posture
- Gait
- Deformity
- Facial expression
Local:
- Oedema
- Atrophy
- Scar / incision / wound
- Cyanosis - Clubbing
- Neurological grafts - Breathing type
- Eye movement - Drains
- Ventilators - Fluid input / output
- Instrumentation
- Monitoring - catheterization
- Ryles tube - Tracheostomy
ON PALPATION
- Texture – Dryskin / scaly / smmoth
- Warmth
- Scar
- type of edema pitting / non pitting
- Spasm
- deformity rigid / flexible
- tone --. Hypo / hyper
- swelling –sessile / pedunculated
- anterior fontenelle
ON EXAMINATION
General:
Vital signs
- BP
- temperature
- Respiratory rate
- Heart rate
Glasgow coma scale
Eye Response
Motor Response
Spontaneously 4
Obeys command 6
To verbal stimuli 3
Localizes pain 5
To pain 2
Flexion – withdrawl 4
Never 1
Abnormal flexion 3
Abnormal extension 2
Verbal Response
No response 1
Oriented 5
Disoriented 4
Inappropriate words 3
Incomprehensive words 2
No response 1
Cognitive skill
- Listen to language
- Understanding simple / complex commands
- Name objects
- Read correctly
- write correctly
- numerical calculation
- recognize objects
- dress himself
- copy geometric pattern
Intellectual function
- Orientation
- memory
- level of memory
Emotional state
- personal type
- emotional state
- slowness of movement
Speech
- Articulation
- Aphasia
Memory
- Short term memory
- long term memory
- recent memory
- remote memory
Cranial Nerve examination
Olfactory Smell
Optic
- Visual acquity
- visual field
- pupil
Occulomotor
- pupil
- occular movements
- nystagmus
Trigeminal nerve
- Jaw reflex
- Corneal reflex
- motor chewinh and clenching
- sensory opthalmic, maxillary and mandibular
Facial
- Moter Blinking, blowing, frowning,
smiling, raising of eye brow
- taste Anterior 2/3rd of tongue
Vestibulocochlear
- Weber test and Rinne test conductive / neural defect
- Vestibular test caloric and hallpike test
Glossopharyngeal
- Gag reflex
- Taste of posterior 1/3rd of tongue
Vagus
- swallowing
- observe uvula and soft palate (asymmetry)
Accessory
- SCM
- Trapezius
Hypoglossal
- Tongue movements
- atrophy - deviation
MOTOR SYSTEM
Muscle tone Hypotone / Hypertone
(Acc. to Modified Asworth Scale)
Inspection of muscle:
Circumference
- Thigh
- calf
- Arm
- forearm
Wasting
Hypertrophy
-Drooping of shoulder
-- FAsciculations
-- Joint ROM (For each joints)
-Reflexes
Superficial
-- Abdominal
- Plantar
Deep
-- Biceps - Brachioradialis
-- Triceps - Quadriceps
-- Hamstrings - Tendoachilus
Sensory Examination
Superficial sensation
- light touch - Temperature
- Pressure - pain
Deep sensation
- Vibration - Crude touch
- Proprioception - Kinesthesia
Cortical sensation
- 2 point discrimination - graphesthesia (traced fig.)
- stereognosis - Barognosis (Recog. Of wt)
- tactile localization
Co-ordination and balance
Equilibrium and non – equilibrium tests
Non – equilibrium tests
o Finger to nose
o Finger to therapist finger
o Finger to finger
o Pronation / supination
o Rebound test
o Tapping
o Heel on chin
o Drawing a circle
Equilibrium tests
Standing in a normal
Standing – feet together
Standing on one foot
Standing, laterally flex the trunk to each side
Standing – eyes closed and open (Romberg sign)
Walking, placing the heel of one foot infront of toe of opposite
foot (Tandem walking)
Walk and pivot
Walk in a circle
Stair climbing with and without handrails
Limb length measurement
- True
- Apparent
- Segmental
Posture
- in supine - in prone
- in sitting - in standing
Functional assessment
- dressing - feeding - toileting
- transfer - combing - brushing
Hand function – fine motor function
- tip to itp
- side to pad
- cylindrical
- Spherical
- hook
Bladder and bowel
- Uninhibited - Atonic
- Autonomous
Involuntary movement:
- Chorea - Athetosis - Tremor
- Hemiballismus - dystonia
Gait
- Stance and Swing phase
- step length - Stride length
- cadence - toe out angle
- Base of support - ROM
Investigations
1. X – ray 3. M.R.I
2. CT Scan 4. Lumbar puncture
5. Blood test
PROVISIONAL DIAGNOSIS
Management
• Problem list
• Aims
• Means
• Report
Prognosis