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Cognitive Rehabilitation rests in what fundamental principles - ✔✔Neuroplasticity and
Adaptability
The spinal cord is ... - ✔✔part of the central nervous system
The National Institute on Disability and Rehab Research (NIDRR) provide funding for -
✔✔TBI Grants
In evaluating headaches COLDER is used for what? - ✔✔Character of a headache
Greater # of synapses within a grouping = - ✔✔greater neurotransmission, efficiency of
neurotransmission, and improved neural communication
,Treatment methods for Persistent Post Concussion Syndrome - ✔✔neuropsych assessments, psych
history
A diagnosis of dementia must be... - ✔✔coupled with a limitation in everyday life due to cognitive
change
Individuals with TBI are how many times more likely to die of a seizure disorder compared to
individuals without - ✔✔37x
Psychiatric symptoms may occur at or near the end of formal rehabilitation and may interfere
with community reentry. What plays a role in determining duration of symptoms? -
✔✔Stressors related to living with a disability
What factors are likely to influence a patient's behavior? - ✔✔Mechanism of injury,
communication impairments, pain from orthopedic injuries, overstimulating environment
,Sleep disturbances after brain injury are reported to be - % - ✔✔30-
70%
Acquired Brain Injury - ✔✔caused by external force or internal insults to the brain
What has the highest incidence of TBI? - ✔✔Falls
Disorders of Consciousness - ✔✔Coma, Minimally Conscious State, Persistent Vegetative State,
Vegetative State
Working Memory + Example - ✔✔Allows the brain to briefly hold new information while it's
needed in the short term. It may then help to transfer it into long-term memory. Rehearsing a
phone number, then writing it down
, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - ✔✔Special Needs Services are provided to
children!
U.S. legislation granting educational rights to people with cognitive, emotional, or physical
disabilities from birth until age 21; initially passed in 1975, it has been amended and
reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004. IDEA operates under six basic principles: zero reject,
nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation, free and appropriate public education, least
restrictive environment, due process, and parent and student participation in shared decision
making with regard to educational planning.
Practical Strategies for Coma Emergence - ✔✔Control environmental stimuli, Implement routines
& structure, educate family members & caregivers, & provide individual with familiar objects
Acute Measures used early after injury include... - ✔✔Glasgow coma scale, Abbreviated Injury
Scale, Loss of Consciousness Scale, Measures of Post Traumatic Amnesia