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Non progressive damage to the cns during prenatal birth or post natal period Wide variety of motor and cognitive dysfunction compensatory |
Cerebral palsy |
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Compensatory patterns in v cerebral palsy kids causes what |
Extensor tone Deformities of soft tissue Then bony changes and skeletal deformities and dislocations when should intense treatment |
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When should intense treatment start for cerebral palsy Why |
4-6 months Still has plasticity to change movement patterns |
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Most common type of cp What is it |
Hyper tonicity (spasticity) fixed lesion in the motor portion of the cerebral cortex |
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What is rigidity cp |
Severe decerebrate lesion |
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Athetosis cp |
Involvement of basal ganglia Difficulty with midline movements |
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Ataxic cp |
Cerebellar lesion Difficulty with distal movements balance and coordination |
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Monoplegia |
Involvement of only one extremity |
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Diplegia |
Bilateral LE involvement with mild UE involvement Most common |
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Paraplegia |
Only BLE involvement |
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Hemiplegia |
UE AND LE involvement in same side |
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Quadriplegia |
Equal involvement of bue and ble’s |
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Level one vs level five of cp severity |
1 walks without limitations 5 wheelchair transportation |
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Risk factors for developing cp |
Intraventricular hemorrhage Hypoxia anoxia Periventricular leukomalacia |
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Grade one and grade five of hemorrhage |
One bleeding in only germinal matrix 5 extends into brain tissue around ventricles |
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What is pvl |
Softening or death of the white matter because of lack of blood flow Affects descending motor tract Ue LE spasticity |
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Myelodysplasia (spina bifuda) |
Neural tube defect |
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Possible causes of spina bifida |
Decrease folic acid Hot tub soak Drugs and alcohol |
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When surgery for spina bifida |
In womb or within 24hr |
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Spina bifida aperta Open or visible 2 types |
Myelomeningocele Meningocele |
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Spina bifida occulta |
No spinal cord involvement last closure of the spinous processes
Indicated by a tuft dimple on low back |
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Clinical presentation of spina bifida |
Sensory/motor dysfunction Hydrocephalus Seizures Tethered cord Bladder bowel issue Cognitive impairments |
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Orthopedic impairments that you see with spina bifida |
Clubfoot, hip subluxation, scoliosis, osteoporosis obesity |
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What are the associated abnormalities of spina bifida? |
Hydrocephalus, Arnold Chari, two malformation deformity of the cerebellum, medulla and cervical spinal cord |
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Treatment for hydrocephalus with spina bifida |
They have an increased head circumference in infants and depressed vital signs respiratory arrest Surgical shunt placement |
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How does the shunt malfunction with hydrocephalus from spina bifida? |
Vomiting, sunsetting, eyes, irritability, increased, head, circumference, headaches, seizures, lethargy, irritability, edema, personality, changes, memory loss |
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Tethered cord symptoms |
Restless legs during sleep, spasticity and lower extremity clonus gate deviations progressive loss of control over bladder and bowel incontinence recurrent urinary tract infections |
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Genetic disorder with presentation of hypotonia, feeding problems in infants and excessive, eating and obesity and childhood. Poor fine and gross motor coordination, short stature, hands that are small and feet that are small. |
Prader willi syndrome |
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Early signs of muscular dystrophy |
Increased falling reluctance to walk and run tiptoe, walking difficulty getting off the floor, difficulty navigating stairs |
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What is the Gower maneuver? |
In order for the child to get up, they have to push themselves and walk up their knees |
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Muscular dystrophy and adolescence |
Increased muscle weakness increased contractors, loss of ambulation, transfers, more difficult contractors, scoliosis, frequent falls in ability to rise from floor or climb stairs loss of muscle strength by 50% in lower extremities |
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Genetic disease, death of neuronal cells in anterior horn of the spinal cord causes overall muscle weakness and wasting mortality, 10 years variability and symptoms, severity and types |
Spinal muscular atrophy |
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Developmental delay with spinal muscular atrophy |
Ages 3 to 9 delays noted by diagnostic testing in physical cognitive communication, social emotional and adaptive development requires special education at school |
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Signs of developmental delay by seven months |
Stiff or floppy reaches only using one side of the body refuses to cuddle, does not roll over head control lacking does not sit with help. Does not babble does not bear weight does not try to get attention through actions lack of integration of innate motor behaviors |
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Signs of developmental delay by three years old |
Frequent flaws, drooling or unclear speech, unable to build blocked tower no pretend to play a little interest in other children, immature gate using only one side of the body |
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Motor coordination disorder below expected levels for child’s chronological agent, intelligence significantly interferes with academic achievement, or ADLs. Also also referred to as developmental apraxia. |
Developmental coordination disorder |
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Clinical presentation of developmental coordination disorder |
Poor gross and fine motor skills unable to skip cross midline handwriting is bad unable to tie, proprioception, vestibular problems, muscle weakness, and low tone require verbal and visual cues constantly on how to perform a task even if they were recently successful |
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What is plagiocephaly? |
A flattened head |
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This disorder has two or more of the following limitations, communication social skills, self-care home, living community is self direction, health and safety, functional academics leisure work |
Intellectual disability |
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PT intervention for plagiocephaly |
Prone, positioning, helmet |
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What is torticollis? |
Asymmetrical, posturing of head and neck side bend to ipsilateral side with rotation to contralateral side named for the direction of tilt example 75% right torticollis |
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Clinical presentation of right torticollis |
Elongated and weak, left SCm Shortening of right upper trap and left spontaneous cap significant trunk tightness, decreased symmetrical, upper and lower body rotation, and lateral flexion |
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Secondary complications of torticollis |
Developmental delay, due to decrease, prone tolerance, plagiocephaly, shoulder, elevation, and decreased active or passive range of motion in upper extremity on the affected side decreased midline control, decreased range of motion during growth, spurts, fussiness, irritability pain |
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PT intervention for torticollis |
Positioning, stretching, facilitation of opposing musculature, developmental motor skills |
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Incident is one and 1000 births paralysis or weakness of the upper extremity due to trauma to C5 to T1 spinal nerve routes types include erbs klumpkes and erb klumpke |
Brachioplexus injury |
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Signs of brachial plexus injury |
Waiters, tip hand or claw hand |
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Causes of brachial plexus injury |
Difficult labor, large, baby hypotonic infant traction on shoulder during delivery and breach position or head and neck during vertex delivery |
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Which category of club foot is it? Still flexible with medial and planter deviation of head and neck of talus foot size equal no atrophy postural club foot. |
One |
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True clubfoot with fixed deformity involves tail navicular in mid tarsal joints soft tissues of calf are not contracted and underdeveloped |
Category two clubfoot |
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Multi joint contractors, cause unknown lack of fetal movement |
Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita |
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Severe fixed deformity usually associated with myelodysplasia may have other severe neuromuscular, skeletal problems, club foot category |
Category three |
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Brittle bone disease, inherited disorder of connective tissue, resulting in fragile bones, muscle weakness, ligamentous, laxity multiple fractures at birth infants don’t usually survive, need to be carried with a pillow |
Osteogenesis imperfecta |
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Shallow socket, hip disease |
Developmental dysplasia of the hip |
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A vascular necrosis of the femoral head in boys |
Leg calf Perthes disease |
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Femoral head slips or is displaced from normal alignment with femoral neck and it is in invoice and there is an obesity factor |
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis |
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What disease happens to 70% of cases eight to one female to male ratio late onset most often may have been present earlier with rapid progression during growth spurts |
Idiopathic scoliosis |
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Complications of idiopathic scoliosis |
Cardiopulmonary function impairment increase incidence of pulmonary disease and compromise of heart function decreased life expectancy changes due to lateral flexion, deformities angulation of ribs, narrowing of thoracic cage, organ compromise |
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Behavior conditions existing on continuum involving socialization communication repetitive behavior clinical signs are evident before three years old |
Autism |
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What are these signs of poor eye contact doesn’t know how to play with toys excessively lines up toys overly attached to one object doesn’t smile appear hearing impaired motor signs, low muscle tone, coordination deficits, toe walking sensory impairments |
Autism |
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Trisomy 21 risk factors, mother over age 35 genetic condition |
Down syndrome |
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Flattened back of the head, narrow eyes with slanted eyelids, short stat or small mouth, small hands, and feet space between first and second toes |
Down syndrome |
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Physiological impairments of down syndrome |
How do you spell Tony, cognitive impairment, sensory deficits, motor delay, poor posture and balance, congenital, heart defect, decrease aerobic capacity, decrease, cough production |
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Musculoskeletal impairments of down syndrome |
Joint hyper flexibility with ligamentous laxity, flat feet, scoliosis, hips subluxation at Lanto axial instability |
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Genetic disorder, obstructive, pulmonary disease, exocrine gland, dysfunction, where the lungs are affected, viscous, secretions, hyperplasia, and hypertrophy of mucus secreting glands |
Cystic fibrosis |
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Most common type of muscular dystrophy excellent to possessive disease, only found in males loss of muscle cells due to abnormal or lack of dystrophin protein in muscle cell membrane |
Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
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Clinical presentation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
Severe muscle weakness and wasting scoliosis contractors. Respiratory failure cardiomyopathy, unable to walk by 8 to 12 onset, 2 to 6 years, life expectancy variable, generally fatal by the late teens to early 20s |