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Switch Assessment

1. Awareness

2. Active Range of Motion

3. Control / Coordination

4. Muscle Strength

5. Dexterity

6. Muscle Tone

7. Reflexive Patterns / responses

Switch Assessment

Looking for Repeatable - Controlled – Voluntary - Movements

– isolated

– non-reflexive

– not part of a pattern of movement

Adequate Range of Motion

– Limitations to active range of motion

– Ataxia / SOME movement disorders

• try switch placement at end ranges

Muscle tone

– W

hat is the definition of “Normal Muscle Tone”

– High – Avoid Midline?

– Low – Consider Midline? / Consider Proximal Placement

– Fluctuating Tone – The hardest to address…

Switch Assessment

Strength

– for adequate movement

– for repeated movement

– for sustained pressure

– Clients with muscle weakness usually do better with midline and

proximal placement

Try to avoid placing switch in line of a reflex pattern

Try Very Hard to avoid placing a switch at the end range of

a reflexive pattern. (Release)

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