PT 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sickle-Cell Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury, Hypertension
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Process that aims to optimize a person"s participation in society and sense of well- being. Focused on people who have conditions that affect the neuromuscular system. Inactivity: obesity, age, sex, family history, race, sickle cell anemia, two types of stroke. Ischemic stroke: due to a clot disrupting blood flow: atherosclerosis, embolus, "clot busting drugs, hemorrhagic stroke: due to bleed in the brain, high blood pressure, aneurysm, surgery to stop bleeding and repair the vessel. Impulsive: confused, loss of memory, direction-finding difficulties, problem-solving difficulties. Inappropriate behavior (socially, sexually: pt work, mobility, balance, equipment needs, return to work/community. Spinal cord injury (sci): 12,000 new cases/year, primarily affects young adults, many causes, fractures of surrounding vertebrae, stretch injuries of spinal cord, pressure on spinal cord, swelling of surrounding structures. Parkinson"s disease: degenerative disorder of the cns, caused by insufficient formation and action of dopamine in the brain.