Cranial Nerve Testing
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Adriana has a past medical history of multiple sclerosis and blurred vision and is undergoing cranial nerve testing.
The physical therapist is challenged with determining the potential reason for an abnormal cranial nerve test finding.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE clinical files to mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:07.0 | week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT clinical files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT |
| 0:12.2 | prep coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching Program. |
| 0:18.4 | And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific |
| 0:22.4 | question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to |
| 0:27.7 | get that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient, Adriana. And |
| 0:32.7 | Adriana presents with a past medical history of multiple sclerosis and blurred vision. |
| 0:39.5 | During cranial nerve testing, the therapist quickly shines a pen light into the patient's left |
| 0:44.8 | eye. The patient's right eye constricts. However, the left eye remains dilated. |
| 0:52.2 | Which of the following is the most likely present? All right. So we got A, left cranial |
| 1:00.3 | nerve three impairment. B, right cranial nerve two impairment. C, left cranial nerve two impairment. And D. Right cranial nerve three impairment. All right. So I made sure that I said all of those are right way. So that's what that's what it is. There's a lot of like little opposites here that you got to play with a lot of left and right going on. You know, we have to start this off and state, okay, what is cranial nerve three to begin with? |
| 1:31.3 | Before we even start looking at this question, let's level the playing field. |
| 1:35.5 | What is cranial nerve three? |
| 1:37.2 | Can you put that down if you're in the car right now, pull off side of road if you need to? |
| 1:41.9 | Tell me what cranial nerve three is you should be saying |
| 1:46.6 | ocular motor oculo motor right and then cranial nerve two is going to be the optic nerve all right |
| 1:55.3 | so we got that we level the playing field let's go ahead to the top of the question start knocking |
| 1:58.9 | this down adriana presents with a past medical history of multiple sclerosis, all right, and blurred vision. |
| 2:07.0 | All right. |
| 2:07.3 | Great start, especially for the NPTE. |
| 2:09.6 | You need to definitely have a good understanding of what multiple sclerosis is. |
| 2:14.0 | Be ready for it. |
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