Intracranial Pressure

Understanding Coma

Rancho Los Amigos Scale/ The Levels of Coma

Objectives of Neurosurgery

A Guide to Brain Anatomy

Tactile Defensiveness - Being overly sensitive to touch; withdrawing, crying, yelling or striking when one is touched. Click Here To Return To List

Tactile Discrimination - The ability to differentiate information received through the sense of touch. Sharp/dull discrimination - ability to distinguish between sharp and dull stimuli; Two-point discrimination - the ability to recognize two points applied to the skin simultaneously as distinct from one single point. Click Here To Return To List

Task Analysis - Breakdown of a particular job into its component parts; information gained from task analysis can be utilized to develop training curricula or to price a product or service. [Click Here To Return To List]

Team - A number of persons associated together in work or activity. A team of health care professionals pools the talents of individuals to help the patient or client achieve the best result. [Click Here To Return To List]

Team, Interdisciplinary - A type of team functioning in which the persons representing each discipline (field of study) have a voice in establishing priorities for the goals to be undertaken by members of the team. [Click Here To Return To List]

Team, Multidisciplinary - A type of team functioning in which the persons representing each discipline (field of study) set their own goals for evaluating and treating the patient/client and inform other team members of the results as they occur.[Click Here To Return To List]

Team, Transdisciplinary - A type of team functioning in which the persons representing each discipline (field of study) are encouraged to deal with problems or issues as they occur during daily interactions with the patient or client even though the intervention used may fall within the primary domain of another discipline. [Click Here To Return To List]

Telegraphic Speech - Speech which sounds like a telegram. Only the main words of a sentence (nouns, verbs) are present; the small words (ifs, ands, buts,) are missing. This type of speech often gets the message across. [Click Here To Return To List]

Temperament - Personal traits consisting of the individual's characteristic mode or inclination of emotional response.[Click Here To Return To List]

Temporal Lobes - There are two temporal lobes, one on each side of the brain located at about the level of the ears. These lobes allow a person to tell one smell from another and one sound from another. They also help in sorting new information and are believed to be responsible for short-term memory.

Right Lobe - Mainly involved in visual memory (i.e., memory for pictures and faces).

Left Lobe - Mainly involved in verbal memory (i.e., memory for words and names). [Click Here To Return To List]

Third party Funding - Reimbursement for services rendered to a person in which an entity other than the recipient of the services is responsible for the payments, i.e., an insurance company. [Click Here To Return To List]

Thrombus - Blood clot. [Click Here To Return To List]

Time Study - Detailed , scientific analysis of time taken by a worker to perform each segment of a specific task/job, and the hand and body movements made in performing the task/job. Such a study may be made for the purpose of determining the most efficient method for doing the task/job, or to evaluate the task/job to establish a work standard or to set a wage. [Click Here To Return To List]

Timed Voiding - Bladder training program where the person goes to the toilet at regular intervals whether feeling the urge or not. The goal is bladder continence through better control and timing. [Click Here To Return To List]

Tone, Muscle - The tension in resting muscles and the amount of resistance that is felt when a muscle is moved. [Click Here To Return To List]

Tracheostomy - A temporary surgical opening at the front of the throat providing access to the trachea or windpipe to assist in breathing. [Click Here To Return To List]

Tracking, Visual - Visually following an object as it moves through space. [Click Here To Return To List]

Traction - A weighted traction setup composed of pulleys and lines used in the care of the patient with broken leg or spine. After the repair of the fractures and application of appropriate casts, weights are used to keep the bones correctly aligned. [Click Here To Return To List]

Training Environment - Refers to the setting in which the emphasis is on the learning and acquisition of skills or competencies. [Click Here To Return To List]

Transdisciplinary - See Team. [Click Here To Return To List]

Transducer - A sensitive electronic device which detects bodily functions, such as heart rate and blood pressure, and transmits signals representing those functions to a monitor so that they can be observed. [Click Here To Return To List]

Transfer Program - Moving one's body between wheelchair and bed, toilet, mat, or car with or without the assistance of another person. [Click Here To Return To List]

Transitional Living - See Discharge Options For Rehabilitation Facilities. [Click Here To Return To List]

Treatment Modalities - Various therapy techniques. [Click Here To Return To List]

Treatment Protocol - The written treatment plan specifying the procedures to be followed by the treatment team. [Click Here To Return To List]

Tremor, Intention - Course, rhythmical movements of a body part that become intensified the harder one tries to control them. [Click Here To Return To List]

Tremor, Resting - Rhythmical movements present at rest and may be diminished during voluntary movement. [Click Here To Return To List]

TEDS - See Support Hose. [Click Here To Return To List]