laboratory and clinical booklet - Fort Scott Community College
laboratory and clinical booklet - Fort Scott Community College
laboratory and clinical booklet - Fort Scott Community College
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f. Test discrimination sensations, but only if touch <strong>and</strong> position<br />
sense is intact. Assess discrimination by assessing stereognosis<br />
(the ability to identify an object by feeling it.) To do so, have the<br />
client close her eyes <strong>and</strong> place a familiar object, such as a paper<br />
clip in her h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> ask her to tell you what it is. If the client<br />
can‟t identify the object, test her ability to identify numbers which<br />
is called graphesthesia. Draw numbers on her h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> ask her to<br />
identify them.<br />
OTHER TESTS:<br />
a. Two Point Discrimination<br />
b. Point Localization<br />
c. Extinction<br />
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