Classroom | Candid Feet #94

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]which is where I would take a cotton um wisp and touch your eye with it. Now we're going to do your facial. Can you smile for me? Brown. And puff out your cheeks. All right. Good. Symmetrical.

[00:00:12]Now I'm going to check for your [snorts] strength by having you close your eyes, clinch them tight. I'm going to try to open them and I can't, which is good strength. Then we would do acoustic and we would do a whisper, a Renee, and a rhyme test. Now we're going to do your glossoparangal and your vagus. And I'm going to have you swallow first.

[00:00:38]>> Good. And can you stick out your tongue and say ah for me?

[00:00:42]>> Okay. Your ugula moves up and down in the midline. And can you then I would do your gag reflex. Reflex, which is where I would have you stick out your tongue, use a tongue depressor, touch the back of your tongue, and see if it causes your gag reflex to trigger. Can and then um your voice isn't horse as we've heard earlier.

[00:01:04]>> Then I would check your spinal nerves.

[00:01:07]Can you shrug with resistance for me?

[00:01:09]Your trapezius muscles are good. And look towards my hand. Okay. And look towards Good. Your sternocomastoid muscles have good strength as well. Now we're going to do your hypoglossal. Can you stick out your tongue?

[00:01:21]>> No trimmers. And can you put your tongue inside your cheek and push against it?

[00:01:26]>> Good. And the other side. Good. Good strength. Okay. Now, we're going to move to your motor cerebellar >> and I'm going to ask that you stick your arms out for me. And with your eyes open, looking straight ahead, not looking at your fingers, can you point your >> take your pointer finger and touch your nose. All right. Other hand.

[00:01:45]>> Okay. Now, close your eyes and do the same thing.

[00:01:50]>> Good. Okay. And now, can you pat your legs?

[00:01:53]>> Flip your hands and pat your legs. And now touch all your fingers to your thumb and go back.

[00:02:00]>> Okay. And tap your foot.

[00:02:03]>> All right. Good. Next, we're going to do your motor non- cerebellar motions. Can you grip my three fingers for me as tight as you can? Good. And now, can you stand up? Put your feet together and your arms by your side. And we're going to wait for 20 seconds with your eyes closed.

[00:02:39]Okay. And now I'm going to ask that you take five to six steps and I'm going to check your sensory system. So remember earlier we did pain and lock touch.

[00:02:49]We're going to do that again. So, can you tell me if it's pain or light touch?

[00:03:02]>> Okay. No abnormalities with pain or light touch. Then this is where we would do vibrations. I would take a tuning fork and cause it to vibrate. And I would put it on the joint of your finger and toe and I would ask if you could feel that. Now, I'm going to ask that you close your eyes for me. I'm going to hand you an object and I need you to what that object is with your eyes closed.

[00:03:25]>> Okay, good. Now, keep continuing to keep your eyes closed. Will you put your hand palm up out for me and tell me what number I'm writing on your hand?

[00:03:36]>> Good. Okay. And lastly, I'm going to ask that you close your eyes and whenever I touch a body part, tell me what body part I'm touching.

[00:03:48]>> Okay, good.

[00:03:50]Next, we would do your reflexes. So, I'm going to start with your deep tendon reflexes. And um I would check your bicep, your tricep, your patella, and your Achilles.

[00:04:07]Lastly, can you turn face that way?