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Management of Upper Extremity Nerve Injury (Day 3)

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1.  A Sunderland I degree nerve injury (Neurapraxia) has: a conduction block no recovery nerve degeneration scar blocking nerve regeneration

2.  A Sunderland III degree nerve injury: has no recovery regenerates at the rate of 1 inch/month scar blocking nerve regeneration needs surgery to restore nerve continuity

3.  The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Model: provides integration between the health condition, body functions/structures, activity & participation cannot be used to assess negative changes does not include the influence of personal factors does not consider the environmental factors

4.  A measure with strong inter-rater reliability is: the same as good validity responsive to improvement in status over time not responsive to change over time providing a consistent measure between examiners

5.  A visual analog scale can best assess: quality of life intensity of symptoms complex sensory assessment grip strength

6.  A comprehensive peripheral nerve assessment will NOT provide information about: nerves involved & level severity change in status accurate time to full recovery

7.  After a median nerve injury, 2-point discrimination: returns before vibration & threshold always returns to normal correlates with object identification does not improve with sensory reeducation

8.  Motor re-education involves: regaining muscle balance beginning with progressive resisted exercises always strengthening antagonist muscle actions never uses anti-gravity or gravity assisted positions

9.  Sensorimotor re-education can be enhanced with: mirror re-training & cortical re-mapping electrical stimulation of denervated muscles minimal feedback using only sensory desensitization exercises

10.  The connective tissue components of the peripheral nerve does NOT include the: epineurium perineurium endoneurium axon