Saturday, January 16, 2010

Motor tests from Lezak second edition

Finger Oscillation Test (finger tapping). p 529
Each hand makes 5 ten second trials, and the score is the average for the five trials for each hand.  Men perform faster than women in all age groups. 

Grooved pegboard-- is part of the Wisconsin Neuropsychological Test Battery and the Lafayette Clinical Repeatable Neuropsychological Test Batter (p 532).  Its sensitive for following improvement after stroke.  Can use preferred hand, opposite hand or both hands, norms not well established, key point is it can be used to look at improvement with intervention.

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