Today Summer and I spent a couple hours at OKP so that she could complete a QUEST. No, we weren’t on a hunt for anything…. QUEST is a Quality of Upper Extremity Skills Test.
With the help of Ann our OT and Andree our PT, Summer was performed tasks that demonstrated her range of motion, fine motor skill, strength and ability to use her right hand and arm.
Summer’s attention span was not stellar, but she was pretty tolerant and we managed to complete all of the required skills at varying levels of function in between her running laps around the room and showing off her jumping and skipping skills.
Some of the skills we looked at were her reaching over head, to the side and out front. She did very well with these except she had about a 5 degree bend in her right elbow – so no points for that… She also had to try to supinate her right hand… no points for that either… but she did very well with picking up blocks and pegs and releasing on a target. She had a tough time with tiny objects too.
Summer will receive another assessment –AHA- Assisted Hand Assessment on Tuesday with our PT in Toronto so we will have a very good idea of her hand and arm function prior to CIT.
Both assessments will be repeated at 6 weeks after the cast is removed.
Summer is slowly becoming aware of the upcoming casting. She is excited that it will be pink and this morning asked me to remind her which hand her cast will be on.
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