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Neurological Screening

Neurological Screening. Sample Question for Examining Orientation and Awareness. Person What is your name? How old are you? When were you born? Place Do you know where you are right know? What kind of place is this? What city or town do you live in? Time What is today’s date?

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Neurological Screening

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  1. Neurological Screening

  2. Sample Question for Examining Orientation and Awareness • Person • What is your name? • How old are you? • When were you born? • Place • Do you know where you are right know? • What kind of place is this? • What city or town do you live in? • Time • What is today’s date? • What day of the week is it? • What year is it? • Circumstance • Do you know why you are here?

  3. http://www.maturespine.com/symptoms/weakness.html

  4. Upper Quarter Myotomes

  5. Lower Quarter Myotomes

  6. Proprioception

  7. Deep Tendon Reflexes 0=absent; 1=hyporeflexia; 2=normal; 3=hyperreflexia; 4=clonus

  8. Babinski http://meded.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/neuro3.htm http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/kosmahle1/courses/pt351/lab351/babinski.htm Test positive with splaying of the toes and extension of the great toe.

  9. Cranial Nerve Integrity NOTE: Ocular motility disturbances may be present with brainstem strokes, such as diplopia, oscillopsia, visual distortions, or paralysis of conjugate gaze. O'Sullivan S, Schmitz T. Physical Rehabilitation. 5th ed2007.

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