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Adult Test 2 (USAHS) – Questions With Solutions
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Adult Test 2 (USAHS) – Questions With SolutionsAbout how many new cases a year of a SCI is there? ✔️Ans -17,500
About how many people are living with SCI at the moment? ✔️Ans -
285,000
What are the leading causes of SCI? ✔️Ans -MVA, followed by falls, acts
of violence and sports
What is the common common SCI injury? ✔️Ans -Incomplete
Tetraplegia
Most SCI occur to what population? ✔️Ans -Young males
SCI causes a disruption to the what> ✔️Ans -Motor and sensory
pathways at the site of the lesion
How are SCI defined? ✔️Ans -By both the severity and location of the
injury
Neurological level SCI is classified by? ✔️Ans -The lowest (most caudal)
level of the spinal cord with normal sensory and motor function bilaterall
When doing ASIA testing you should test? ✔️Ans -Both sides all the way
down
ASIA A ✔️Ans -complete, no sensory or motor function is preserved in
the sacral segments S4-S5
ASIA B ✔️Ans -Incomplete; sensory but not motor function is preserved
below the neurological level and includes the sacral segments S4-5
ASIA C ✔️Ans -Incomplete; motor function is preserved below the level
of injury with most of the muscle strength <3/5
ASIA D ✔️Ans -Incomplete; motor function is preserved below the level
of injury with most of the muscle strength >3/5
, AISA E ✔️Ans -Normal
Tetraplega ✔️Ans -- injury to cervical SC
- Impaired upper extremity function, trunk and lower extremity function
Paraplegia ✔️Ans -Impaired lower extremity function and possibly
trunk
Your patient sustained an injury to the central structures of the spinal cord
that produces sacral sensory sparing and greater weakness in the upper
limbs than in the lower limbs. What SCI is this? ✔️Ans -Central Cord
Anterior cord syndrome ✔️Ans -Incomplete spinal injury in which all
functions are absent below the level of except proprioception and
sensation
Your patient presents with an incomplete spinal cord injury where half of
the cord has been damaged. Exhibit more loss of motor and proprioceptive
ipsilateral to injury and loss of pain and sense of temperature on
contralateral side. What SCI is this? ✔️Ans -Brown-Seqaurd
Conus Medullaris Syndrome ✔️Ans -Injury to the sacral cord resulting
in flaccid paralysis of the lower extremities
Your patient sustained injury to the lumbar and sacral nerves roots results
in flaccid-type paralysis
Pattern of paralysis varies. What SCI is this? ✔️Ans -Cauda Equina
Syndrome
What are some of the common tests for SCI? ✔️Ans -- ROM
-SCI
- MAS
- GRASSP
Spinal Cord Independence Measure ✔️Ans -Questionnaire regarding
functional independence for patients with SCI
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