My fishing life returned

-A case report of visual recognition to acting disturbance-

Abstract

Occupational Therapist in Showa Hospital rehabilitated a 74 years old patient with higher brain dysfunction after cerebral infarction recovery. He desired enthusiastically to go fishing, because he had lost the processes, visual knowledge and technique for fishing. We assessed his state of the higher brain dysfunction and performed occupational therapy. The 1st approach: we watched his apraxia and understood his tendency of errors. The 2nd approach: we showed him the fishing pictures in correct order, and carefully explained them. Then we visualized the knot of fishing line 2 dimensionally. He was capable of understanding 2D illustrations easily; there after he almost returned to a fisherman he used to be.