Open AccessManagement of an aphasic-apraxic patient during the Covid-19 pandemic: a case report
Author(s) -
A. Migliaccio,
F. Ferretti,
F. Palmisani,
E. Barberis,
Tatiana Bolgeo,
Roberta Di Matteo,
M. Polverelli,
Federica Viazzi,
Antonio Maconi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
working paper of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2279-9761
DOI - 10.4081/wpph.2021.9460
Subject(s) - aphasia , rehabilitation , covid-19 , pandemic , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , neurological rehabilitation , speech therapy , audiology , physical therapy , psychology , psychiatry , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , virology , outbreak
Anarthria represents a very rare form of aphasia that is not associated with major motor impairments; the guidelines for aphasia indicate speech therapists to intervene quickly and intensively together with physiotherapists both in the acute and sub-acute phase during hospitalization in a second-level rehabilitation facility. However, if the motor impairment is not present or minimal, the choice to keep an anarthric patient in a rehabilitation facility for at least 4 weeks, instead of following him only in the out-patients clinic, has proved to be effective in terms of time and results.