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By
Sam Gharbi
UBC Internal Medicine, R3
Overview
Basics:
• Cranial Nerves
• Motor
• Sensory
• Reflexes
Additional:
• Pronator drift
• Romberg
• Gait
Cranial Nerves
Cranial Nerve I:
• Olfactory Nerve
• Not routinely tested
Cranial Nerve II: Optic Nerve
Sensory:
1) Visual Acuity:
– Ask the patient to cover one eye and read progressively smaller
lines until no longer able to.
– Ask the patient to cover their right eye. Cover your left eye.
Ensure the patient looks into your uncovered eye while testing
visual fields.
– Use wiggling fingers and present the test object in the four
corners of the peripheral visual field.
– CN II: Afferent
– CN III: Efferent
– See next section
CN III, IV, & VI
Know the names:
• Accomodation Reflex:
– Ask the patient to look into the distance and focus on your finger at a distance.
– Bring your finger towards the tip of their nose.
– Pupils should constrict and eyes should converge
Cranial Nerve V: Trigeminal
Motor (V3 division): Muscles of mastication
Pterygoids:
• Light touch:
• Corneal Reflex:
– Ask the patient to close their eyes tightly. Attempt to pull their
eyes open and ask them to resist you. (orbicularis oculi)
– Ask the patient to show you their teeth. Then ask them to close
their mouth tightly. Attempt to pull their lips open and ask them to
resist you. (orbicularis oris)
– Ask the patient to show you just their bottom teeth. (platysma)
Cranial Nerve VII: Facial Nerve
Sensory:
Reflex:
• Corneal Reflex
– With a cotton wisp, touch the cornea of one eye lightly.
– Observe for a blink in the same and opposite eye.
– Afferent defect: No blink in same or opposite eye.
– Efferent defect: No blink in same eye, but blink in opposite eye.
Cranial Nerve VIII:
Vestibulocochlear
Sensory: Hearing
Reflex:
• Trapezius:
• Sternocleidomastoid Muscles:
– Sensory
– Motor
– Reflex
Neuro Exam- Overview
• Cranial nerves
• Sensory
• Motor
• Tone
• Reflexes
• Gait
• Special tests
– Romberg
– Pronator drift
– Coordination
Sensory
Motor
• Test muscle strength:
• Upper limbs
– Arm flexion and extension
– Wrist flexion and extension
– Finger adbuction and adduction
• Lower limbs
– Hip abduction and adduction
– Knee flexion and extension
– Ankle dorsiflexion(L4) and plantar flexion(L5)
– Big toe dorsiflexion (S1)
Motor
• Grading of muscle strength:
– 0 = absent
– 1 = slight contraction
– 2 = movement with gravity eliminated
– 3 = movement against gravity
– 4 = movement against gravity with some
resistance
– 5 = Normal
Tone
• Have patient relax muscle, and passively
manipulate muscle
• Examine upper and lower limbs for tone
• Normal vs Rigidity/Spasticity
– Cogwheeling
– Lead pipe
Reflexes
• Deep tendon
– Biceps (C5-6)
– Triceps (C6-7)
– Brachioradialis (C5-6)
– Patellar (L4)
– Achilles (S1)
– 0 = No response
– 1+ = Reduced
– 2+ = Normal
– 3+ = Increased
– 4+ = Hyperactive/Clonus
Gait
• Make patient do the following:
– Walk regularly
– Walk on toes
– Walk on heels
• Pronator drift
• Have the patient stretch out the arms so that they are level and fully
extended with the palms facing straight up, and then close the eyes.
• Watch for 5 to 10 seconds to see if either arm tends to pronate (so
that the palm turns inward) and drift downward.
• A unilateral pronator drift in one arm suggests an upper motor
neuron lesion affecting that arm.
Coordination
3 main tests:
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