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Disability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Any restriction or lack (resulting from an
impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the
range considered normal for a human being
Impairment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Any loss or abnormality of psychological,
physiological, or anatomical structure or function
Handicap - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A disadvantage for a given individual that limits
or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is normal
,Arthritis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Most common disability in the US; 54.4 million
people have it. Inflammation of joints that results in stiffness, swelling, and
pain.
Osteoarthritis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"Wear and Tear"; degenerative joint disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Auto-immune disease; own immune
system attacks the lining of your joints; flu-like symptoms: feel sick, pains,
sweats, fever
Cerebral Palsy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Impairment to the motor portions of the
brain; Either happens during the fetal stage or during child birth. Range of
symptoms and range of severity
Spastic CP - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Permanently contracted muscles, shorter
limbs, shaking, tremor, poor vision, with severe cases, speech and
swallowing effect as well
Dyskinetic CP - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Involuntary, uncontrolled, slow twisting
movements of muscles, intention tremor (IT)
Ataxic CP - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔least common; lack of coordination and oral,
may have speech problems
,Multiple Sclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Genetic; can have in the brain/spinal
cord; cannot get through those scars, fatigue, feel tired for no reason,
numbness/tingling in feet/hands, depression; diagnosed with significant
delay
Considerations with leisure: weaker, gets progressively worse, periods of
recovery; need to watch for depression signs.
Muscular dystrophy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔General designation for a group of
chronic hereditary diseases; posture changes during progression of
Duchenne muscular dystrophy; characterized by progressive degeneration
and weakness of voluntary muscles; body not producing a protein that
sustains your muscles
Childhood Muscular Dystrophy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Affects only boys;
diagnosed between ages 2 and 5; no cure, usually die around 20 years old
Limb Girdle MD - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Affects muscles of pelvis and shoulders,
usually appears in teen years in men and women; progresses slowly
FSH (Facio-scapulohumeral) MD - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Facial muscles and
spreads down neck and upper arms; Weaker, tired very easily, in hospital a
lot, parents are protective
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, Poliomyelitis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Polio muscle paralysis caused by acute
affection of the central nervous system, spreads through
bathroom/contaminated water, can be partial or complete, FDR, can
vaccinate against
Spina Bifida - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Neural tube defect when one or more of the
vertebral arches fail to close
Spina Bifida Occulta - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔10-20% of infants, opening in spine
but nothing sticking out, spinal cord undamaged, very mild/no symptoms,
common
Spina bifida Manifesta - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1/1000 births; the worst kind; spinal
cord damaged; two types: meningocele and myelomeningoele
Meningocele - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Approx. 4% of children born with SB, cyst
with tissue covering the spinal cord and cerebro - spinal fluid
Myelomeningocele - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔96% of children born with SB, cyst with
tissue covering the spinal cord, cerebro, spinal fluid, nerves and part of the
spinal cord; Take prenatal vitamins to avoid
Considerations in leisure: depends how severe disability is