1. Before CVA: very active , avid gardener, woodworker, and worked as a postal worker before retiring.
2. Family/ home life: 1 son from a previous marriage, and a current wife. Frank and his current wife live in a ranch style house with steps upon entering the home. Franks relationship with his wife is very strong.
3. Social interaction: Bowling night, traveling with his wife, and seeing friends from the post office.
4. Franks deficits
4.1. Left Neglect
4.2. Left hemiplegia
4.3. No visual loss
4.4. no hearing loss
4.5. Needs glasses for far distances
4.6. defects in perception
4.7. poor: judgement, insight , safety, and attention.
4.8. Left/ right confusion
4.9. Steriagnosis
4.10. Sensory deficits
4.11. loss of sensation: light touch,sharpe, and dull.
5. Franks personality
5.1. great sense of humor
5.2. likes to joke and tease the staff members
5.3. Frank does not know why he needs so much therapy.
6. Right CVA -of internal carotid artery
7. Symptoms: Left hemiplegia and left neglect.
8. Assessment tools used on Frank:
8.1. MMT
8.2. Perceptual
8.3. Sensory
8.4. Barthel index of ADL's
9. Range of motion:
9.1. No loss of range in Right side.
9.2. Left weakness in UE and LE
9.3. muscle grade is a 2 on the left side fingers and wrist.
