NDT

Question 1

What are the principles of NDT?

Answer 1

1) Holistic
2) Functional
3) Living concept
4) success-oriented
5) adaptable
6) positive
7) team oriented

Question 2

What do we try to inhibit or facilitate?

Answer 2

• inhibit abnormal movement

- facilitate normal/typical movement

Question 3

What level do we challenge patients using NDT?

Answer 3

Work at highest level of quality of movement, but low enough to allow the movement
-Want SYMMETRY, QUALITY, and NORMAL MOVEMENT

Question 4

What is tone affected by?

Answer 4

• fear
• effort
• pain
• concentration

Question 5

How does a person who has had a stroke present?

Answer 5

• abnormal tone
• posterior pelvic tilt
• weight shifted to unaffected side
• shortening of muscles on affected side
• Neck laterally flexed (sidebending) to affected side
• Rotation away from affected side

Question 6

What is handling?

Answer 6

What you do to initiate, guide and control movemnt

Question 7

What does cervical extension promote?

Answer 7

• Full body extension

- Cervical flexion inhibits trunk extension

Question 8

What does internal rotation of the arm inhibit?

Answer 8

extension

Question 9

What does external rotation of the arm inhibit?

Answer 9

flexion

Question 10

What does external rotation of the leg inhibit?

Answer 10

a