Health Assessment
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| Nuchal rigidity | stiff neck associated with meningitis and intracranial hemorrhage
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| Brudzinski | involuntary flexion of hips/knees when examiner flexes patient's neck
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| Kernig | flex the leg at knee and hip in supine position. pain in lower back and resistance to straightening the leg is positive sign
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| Decerebrate posture | indicated brainstem damage, pronation of arms and planter flexion
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| Decorticate posture | indicates cerebral damage, hands cover heart
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| Documentation of DTR's | 0-4. 0 - no response, 1+ sluggish, 2+ expected, 3+ more brisk than expected, 4+ hyperactive
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| Babinski (plantar) reflex | + if dorsiflexion of great toe with fanning of other toes. + is abnormal.
foot should plantar flex in everyone over 2 y/o
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| cremasteric reflex | stroke the inner thigh/groin, results in rising of the testicle and scrotum on side stroked
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| abdominal reflex | movement of umbilicus toward the area of stimulation. stroke from umbilicus outwards.
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| clonus | support foot, briskly dorsiflex, then let foot fall. loking for oscillating movements in foot's fall
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| Achilles reflex | plantar flexion of the foot
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| patellar reflex | extension of the knee
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| brachioradialis reflex | pronation of the forearm and flexion of the elbow
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| triceps reflex | extension of the elbow
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| biceps reflex | extension of the arm
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| two-point discrimination | use two toothpicks and move from two distinct points into one, PT will verbalize when the two points feel like one
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| graphesthesia | PT has eyes closed, nurse draws a number and/or letter on PT's hand,
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| stereognosis | PT distinguishes common objects in his/her hands with eyes closed. examples - coin, key
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| proprioception | PT tells nurse whether his/her finger and/or toe is being pulled up or down
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