Activity answer
- Consult notes: What balance assessments have been completed? E.g. berg balance, timed up and go
- Consider the individual's cognition and the capacity to learn
- Liaise with OT re kitchen and other functional assessments. Has the environment been modified? Which tasks are the problems most evident in? Development of functional skills through practice
- Development of core muscle groups and weight transference in sitting/standing/supine
- Practicing walking up and down stairs and on uneven surfaces
- Consider interventions such as constraint induced therapy to force increased use of the left upper limb, or limb activation strategies such as spatial motor cueing (neglect can be significantly improved by encouraging small, volitional movements with some part of the left side of body within the left hemi space (Robertson, 1991).
- Consider referral to orthoptist - would a prescription of prisms and specialist glasses be useful?
- Consider referral to appropriate agency to assess for driving capacity
