♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The Two Most Famous Physical Therapists on the Internet. ♪
- Hi folks.
- I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are "The Most Famous Physical Therapists
on the Internet."
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we have a simple test that you can do
for dementia to see if you or a loved one
has basically some cognitive deficits.
- Right, a simple test- - So like Alzheimer's or-
- It doesn't necessarily mean...
I mean, you kind of have to be a professional.
- No.
- But it can give you some idea.
- It would be an idea of
whether or not you should go see the doctor.
- Sure.
I mean, you know, this...
If you're having trouble with this,
this is the just one step, doesn't mean necessarily
you even have dementia, which is, you know
a decrease in cognitive ability,
decreased ability to process,
but it does mean there might be a cause for concern.
- Sure.
- So, by the way, before we do that,
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All right.
So the mini cog, this is what we're gonna do.
It's a three step process.
Brad's gonna take the test.
I'm gonna give it to him and we'll see how he does.
I mean, I have my concerns here.
I've been worried about you.
- And so does my wife.
- So all right. Well-
- Although she's pretty convinced we don't need the test.
She knows.
- She knows already.
So we're gonna start off with number one.
You're gonna have the person, you're gonna give him...
name three objects for the person.
I'm gonna give Brad three objects.
And I want him to repeat them after me.
I want you to try to remember them so-
- Is this something you should just do in a quiet room,
I'm assuming?
- Sure.
- You know, like distractions
or people walking around or whatnot.
- Right.
- Okay.
- So we'll start off with the first three objects here.
Brad, they're chair, house, and apple.
- Okay.
- I want you to repeat them after me.
- Chair, house apple.
- Now, if the person can't even repeat them back,
can't even remember them enough to even repeat them back,
That's already a bad sign.
You need to go see the doctor.
- Okay.
- So all right.
Now we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna, Brad,
we got this... we brought this over for you,
this whiteboard with the marker for a reason.
We're gonna have you draw a clock,
and I'm gonna have you draw the clock
and I'm gonna have all the numbers on there.
- Yep.
- And I want you to put an hour hand
and a minute hand, and can you put the time 3:45
or which would be quarter to four?
- You ready?
- This was on "Dumb and Dumber" I remember.
He goes, I'll meet you at quarter to four
or something like that.
And she goes... and he goes, well, what about 3:45 so.
So Brad's drawing the clock
and the things we're looking for, Liz,
who's done a lot of these tests
and she's behind the camera,
but she said a lot of times doesn't see any normal clocks
but she's seen the numbers all on one side.
I imagine you see it where the circle
doesn't get connected, right?
- [Camera Operator] Hmm.
She's seen it where people write numbers
one through 20.
Yeah. Brad's playing it out pretty well here actually
I think pretty...
And probably can have...
I'm gonna have you probably label
the big hand and the little hand too,
the hour hand and the minute hand so.
So he is doing pretty well here.
So now you're yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're thinking. He's thinking.
Okay. It's not that easy, is it?
- Well, you know, nowadays with particularly
younger people, some people...
young kids have a hard time reading analog clocks.
They have-
- Oh, yeah. Right.
- Everything's digital.
- Right.
- So I took care of that too.
- So that's in our... so you wanna mark the...
you forgot to mark the big hand.
- Oh, sorry.
- So Brad, I'm sorry to tell you.
You did make one mistake here, though.
- Oh, really?
- Yeah. So here's Brad's.
Do you see-
- Oh.
- Do you see what you did?
- Well, this has to go down a little bit.
- Yes, yes, yes.
- There you go.
You had quarter to three instead of quarter to four so-
- Yeah. Well, yeah.
- So-
- But sometimes- - Now we go.
- Clocks are weird.
And so then you do this.
- And now I'm gonna go ahead
and ask you to repeat the three objects.
- Oh, chair, house, apple.
- Yep, very good. Chair, house, apple.
And, you know, it's a little bit
of a struggle sometimes-
- Sure.
- For you to bring those up. - Right.
- You did use visualization, didn't you?
- Right. Yeah, yeah.
I had my little system for memorized,
but I wish I could use it on names.
It doesn't works so good that word,
but I'm working on that too.
- So anyway, you know, this is something you could try
you know, if you did it along with us today
and you have a little bit of difficulty in that clock,
you can show the clock to somebody else.
And if it doesn't look too good, you know,
maybe you do want to go in
and have... there's a lot more in-depth testing
they can do.
- Sure. - So.
- Sure.
So, again, if you're doing a loved one,
maybe it's someone older, you know, Liz was saying
she sees oftentimes things that you would not suspect
as far as drawing the clock out.
So don't get overly concerned either
but get into someone that can help you out.
- And, you know, we're not trying to make
light of this either.
I mean, this is a serious issue.
- Sure.
- And, you know, we always try to add a little humor,
but we realize that, you know, people starting
to get a little impairment in their cognitive functions.
It is something to be concerned about
because you're always worried about a person,
you know, being safe at home.
- Sure.
- Being able to, you know-
- Care for themselves.
- Care for themselves, and they start a fire on the stove
or they leave the stove on.
- Right.
- And stuff like that.
- Right.
- So all right.
Thanks everybody for watching.