Neuro Silver

An SCI injury that is the result of a flexion injury, with loss of motor function, pain and temperature below the lesion. Impacts the corticospinal (motor) and spinothalamic (pain & temp) tracts.

• Anterior Cord Syndrome

• Central Cord Syndrome

• Cauda Equina Syndrome

• Brown's Sequard Syndrome

Peripheral nerve injury impacting nerves below L1, resulting in impaired sensory innervation to saddle area, atonic bladder, and sexual disfunction.

• Anterior Cord Syndrome

• Central Cord Syndrome

• Cauda Equina Syndrome

• Brown Sequard Syndrome

Hyperextension injury causing injury to the ligamentum flavum, resulting in motor impairment to the UE's more than the LE.

• Anterior Cord Syndrome

• Central Cord Syndrome

• Cauda Equina Syndrome

• Brown Sequard Central

Which is NOT true of Erb's palsy

• brachial plexus injury occurring at birth affecting C5 and C6

• affects muscles in the face and neck resulting in unilateral drooping

• results in flaccid paralysis, known as "waiter's tip deformity"

• 9/10 recovery rate

Which is false of Huntington's?

• autosomal dominant trait

• characterized by choreoathetoid movement, mental deterioration, and speech disturbances

• fatal in 15-20 yrs

• atrophy occurring in the cerebellum

Treatment for Myasthenia Gravis does NOT include....

• gait training

• ACE inhibitors and corticosteroids

• breathing techniques to improve respiratory function

• endurance training

Which is true of post polio syndrome?

• It can occur without prior diagnosis of polio

• is an upper motor neuron disorder

• management is focused on energy conservation, conditioning, gait, and AD training

• sudden onset

Which is the neural tube defect that is characterized by a sac or cyst outside the spine with a herniation of the of meninges, cerebrospinal fluid, and spinal cord through the defect?

• Spina-bifida occulta

• meningocele

• myelomeningocele

• Arnold chiari type II malformation

Which is NOT a vestibular disorder?

• BPPV

• Diplopia

• Meniere's Disease

• Acoustic Neuroma

Acute onset of sensory and motor deficits in structures supplied by the facial nerve, impacts tear and saliva production is

• polyneuropathy

• trigeminal neuralgia

• erb's palsy

• bell's palsy