What is the somatosensory system?
Utilizes proprioceptive, tactile, and movement to help with learning
What approach are best used for a somatosensory approach?
Hand over hand
- Ideational Apraxia:
inability to perform a purposeful motor act (automatic or upon command)
- Visual Agnosia:
- Visual Agnosia: inability to recognize familiar objects despite normal function of the eyes and optic nerve
- Anosognosia
the denial, neglect, or lack of awareness of the presence or severity of one’s paralysis
- Asomatognosia:
an impairment in the body scheme
Dysmetria:
overshooting or undershooting of a target
Akathisia:
side effect of anti psychotic medications exhibited by restlessness, hand tremors, and shaky legs
“Associated Reaction”
is to provide resisted voluntary movements to the unaffected limb to facilitate an association reaction in the affected limb.
Motor apraxia:
ineffective motor planning to achieve a goal
Sensorimotor Approaches:
activites that do not require the individual to think about the steps needed to complete an activity; these activities should be spontaneous/automatic/non-cortical
