CASE 1: You’re working with a 29 year old single female at a…

CASE 1: You’re working with a 29 year old single female at an inpatient rehab facility who was recently admitted after sustaining a spinal cord injury to her T10 (Mid-trunk level) region on the L side after a car accident.  She has a dog that she enjoys hiking with, and works as a nanny to 3 children.  Her chart shows it was a hemi-section of her spinal cord, diagnosed as Brown-Sequard Syndrome and she can ambulate with a quad cane.   What and where would you expect the sensory loss to include (sensory loss-2 points, location-3 points)

CASE 2: You are about to evaluate a 56 year old retired scho…

CASE 2: You are about to evaluate a 56 year old retired school teacher who recently had a clot in her middle cerebral artery causing a R CVA affecting her frontal lobe.  She is ambulatory with mild weakness in her left arm.  Is this considered and UMN or LMN lesion? (1 point)