Case Study #1 1. Myasthenia gravis, which literally means "grave weakness of the muscles," causes skeletal muscles to fatigue more easily than normal. Weakness of the involved muscles increases as the day progresses. Weakness of the muscles of mastication the masseters, temporalis muscles, and pterygoid muscles make it difficult to chew. 2.
MG causes chewing and swallowing to be difficult, also the nasal bone because aspiration can happen in more severe cases. The Appendicular skeletal area is also affected because the arms and legs are involved because of the muscle weakness. All in all, one can say any part of the skeletal system can be
This is all linked through psychological changes and how the individual copes with elderly life. Physical changes- As people age there are many changes that mainly happen to the appearance of the person such as wrinkles, skin becoming thinner and less elastic. However changes also happen within the body like bones becoming less dense and more likely to break or fracture joints also become stiffer which causes bones to become thinner. The physical height of a person will decrease the cartilage between bones and joints will deteriorate which causes the leg joints and backbone to become compressed. Women are more at risk of having decreased bone strength due to the lack of oestrogen following the menopause.
Corticosteroids, either in pill or topical form are usually the first things that doctors will give patients with this.These medications reduce inflammation and can help to heal the blisters and relieve itching although they work well as a treatment they can have serious side effects if used for too long. Because of this your doctor would take you off the medication as soon as the blisters clear up. Another treatment option would be to take medication that suppresses the immune system so the disease cannot grow. But the problem with doing this is it puts you at risk for contracting other diseases. There arent very many ways to prevent this disease due to the fact that it is an immune system based disease so the only things that could really help would be to eat healthy and exercise to maintain a healthy and strong immune system.
It is usually more common in people over the age of 50, however younger people can get it too. It is caused by Nerve cells in the brain that die which means that there is a lack of a chemical called Dopamine being produced. This chemical helps to regualte movement so if there is not enough of it movement becomes slower. Some people with this disease also develop a tremor or their muscles become rigid. There are other systomes of this disease which includes tiredness, pain depression and constipation.
English 102 19 March 2012 Age-Related Macular Degeneration Being able to see is something that a lot of people probably take for granted. It’s not something people really think about until it's too late and their vision has been affected. Being diagnoses with age-related macular degeneration is not an easy thing to understand and is very scary, but the more one knows the better. Age-related macular degeneration is a disease that is being diagnoses more and more often now. This disease causes a vision loss in the central vision, because the macula is deteriorating.
People with Parkinson’s disease can have rigid limbs that affect normal moving, so it is important to not force movement in the affected limb as it can cause pain and damage to the joints. Due to service users with Parkinson’s they also have slower reactions to pain so they will need more time to move and shouldn’t be rushed, service providers such as myself should also be aware of non-verbal signs of pain and discomfort as the service user may not be able to communicate their pain verbally. 2.2 Management of health and safety at work regulations 1999- this introduced the requirements for risk assessment when moving and positioning individuals risks must be assessed acted on and reviewed. All staff on the premises must be trained in moving and handling of individuals. Before moving and handling of an individual you must first consult their care plan, this is to check that their moving and handling care needs have not changed and if they have then the service providers can arrange to move them in the correct way following the guidelines in their care plan.
As the disease progresses through the middle and later stages, a decline in walking , muscle strength and balance occurs. * Lack of physical exercise A lack of physical exercise can make all of the above a lot worse. The benefits of regular daily exercise is known to improve daily functioning and cognition. * Memory impairment As the disease progresses, it can be increasingly difficult to prevent people from falling, in part because of the cognitive decline that is happening. Even though we can continuously tell someone with dementia not to get up and walk about without assistance from a carer, because the memory is impaired, they may continually try to walk independently when it is not safe to do so.
This can be a prescribed drug as a controlled substance but is still illegal for use in the United States but is popluar for body builders. The risks are almost the same as the anabolic steroid use including the acne and baldness but it is a greater risk of stroke or heart attacks because the good cholesterol (HDL) is lower. Human growth hormone, also known as gonadotropin, is a hormone that acts like an anabolic steroid by the side effects that is associated with it. It still improves performance and muscle mass and is only available as a prescription that is an injected drug. It does not prove to gain strength or endurance.
Most effects of hearing loss are permanent, however some can be fixed surgically in some cases. Besides the inability to hear, speech production is one of the most common effects of deafness. This is considered to be true based on a study conducted by Randall Monsen and Maynard Engrebertson, which proves that deafness “prevents a speaker from learning the phonatory consequences of the muscular gestures which maintain and alter vocal‐fold tension and subglottal air pressure dynamically in the production of voice”. This effect changes how one speaks because they are not able to hear themselves talk or feel the vibrations of the sound waves in the ear. Other effects of hearing loss are: irritability, negativism and anger, fatigue, tension, stress and depression, avoidance or withdrawal from social situations, social rejection and loneliness, reduced alertness and increased risk to personal safety, impaired memory and ability to learn new tasks, reduced job performance and earning power, diminished psychological and overall health.