Dressing apraxia
- Dressing apraxia is the inability to dress
- Dressing apraxia can be due to ideomotor or ideational apraxia. The patient may not cognitively understand the demands of the dressing task (ideational) or has lost the appropriate motor plan to complete the task (ideomotor) or maintains the appropriate motor plan but is unable to access it (ideomotor)
- For example, a patient with ideomotor apraxia understands that trousers are worn over their legs but cannot access the appropriate motor plan and therefore may put their arms through the legs
