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Stroke: Rehab
Three domains Mobility (PTs)
of Stroke bed mobility, transfers, ambulation, stairs, wheelchair mobility, balance (
Rehab sitting, standing, walking)
More LE
ADLs (OTs)
Grooming, dressing, toileting, fine motor control, cognition
More UE
Speaking/swallowing (SLPs)
Speech production and comprehension, swallowing cognition
Aphasia and dysphagia
Settings Acute in patient hospital
Assessment of overall function/mobility
Initial rehabilitation and discharge planning
Acute rehabilitation (in patient)
Intense rehabilitation (3hr/day must be tolerated ) PT/OT/SLP - must need at
least TWO of these services to be accepted
Pt with highest recovery potential, appropriate insurance
Skilled nursing facility
Less intense rehab (maybe only one service and shorter duration <3hr)
Pt with lower recovery potential, insurance issues
Willingness to work
Outpatient Rehabilitation
For pt D/C'd home, this therapy continues their rehab progression
Severe debilitation - cant leave the home easily
Rehab team PA/MD
In charge of overall medical care
Medically stable pt dC with input of the team
Nursing
Works most losely with pt knows PMHx
PT/OT/SLP
Direct physical and mental rehab
Seess for accomodations of home
Make discharge
Case manager
Coordination of care
PT Bed mobility
interventions Getting In/out
Rolling over
Adjusting positions in bed
Transfers
Moving from surface to surface
o Sitting to standing
o W/C to toilet
o In out of car
Likely decrease balance, training using AD (Rw hemi walker quad cane
Likely intact in pts with R side probs LE and trunk control most important
Ambulation
Normalizing gait pattern
o Training with least supportive aAD thaa allows pt to maintain balance
RW first hemi quad then single cane
o Higher level ambulation (stairs, curbs, uneven surfaces)
Use of assistive devices
Therapeutic exercises
Strengthening and ROM for LE, Trunk and UE
Endurance
Nustep - like elliptical in reclined position
Ambulation for distance stair training
Functional activities
Ambulation
Balance training (sitting, standing ,dynamic)
Stairs, curbs, outside ambulation
Facilitation activities
Special techniques to facilitate regaining mm performance, coordination
"break down" part of a task to allow practice for individual actions to help
reprogram motor plan
Ambulatory assistive devices -based on distance between and number of points
of contact with the ground
Single point canes
Quad canes
Hemi walkers - can only use on one side of the body - good if one sided
paralysis/hemiplegia
Walkers
o Standard vs front wheeled
Wheeled - PT can hold and push following behind the patient
Best for helping to reestablish the normal gait pattern
Rollators - not very stable has four wheels - best if high level
functioning but pt lacks endurance