Question
What are some ways that you measure attention in patients post-stroke?
Answer
There are several different ways to do it. If you want to find a functional way by which to measure attention, you could actually work on testing an individual in a non-distracting environment. You could run a Berg balance test. You could time them while they are dressing. You could test them in a communication skills effort. Then, you could actually test them in the same exact examination with distraction, perhaps just an auditory background, perhaps a visual distraction, whatever your choice may be that would be very task specific. Then re-measure them under the duress of the distraction with the same exact functional measure. This may be one of the best facets by which attention rehabilitation and objectifying attention is actually coming to the world of rehabilitation.
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