Tiffany Walker Lalani Case study # 3 Muscular Dystrophy Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited conditions. They can happen as a child or an adult. There are many different types of muscular dystrophy. Some of which include the following: * Emery-dreifuss muscular dystrophy * Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy * Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy * Duchenne muscular dystrophy * Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy * Becker muscular dystrophy As mentioned before muscular dystrophy can affect adults but, the more severe forms are typically found in early childhood. The symptoms can vary among the different kinds of muscular dystrophy.
Unit 261 - Contribute to the Support of Individuals with Multiple Conditions and/or Disabilities? 1.1 - Identify possible multiple conditions and/or disabilities individuals may have? Individuals may have multiple conditions/disabilities such as physical and mental health problems, learning difficulties and sensory loss. Extra support may be required for individuals that have multiple conditions. These can be mental retardation, dementia, bad eyesight, blindness, hard of hearing, deafness, arthritis, and paralysed body/parts.
(CT238.4] Understand factors relating to an individual’s experience of dementia )4.1 Describe how different individuals may experience living with dementia depending on age, type of dementia, and level of ability and disability Depending on the form of dementia people's ability and disability will will be different. People with dementia may not necessarily always be forgetful, for example an individual with Fronto-temporal dementia may be less forgetful than a person suffering from Alzheimer disease. Their memory may remain intact but their personality and behaviour could be noticeably changed. Dementia with Lewy bodies interrupts the brain's normal functioning and affect the person's memory, concentration and speech skills. It has similar symptoms to Parkinson's disease such as tremors, slowness of movement and speech difficulties.
Study Skills Assignment 2 Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is one of the biggest causes of disability in the world. It is an incurable disease that affects the body’s central nervous system. There are a large variety of symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis. Some of which can have a major effect on everyday life for its sufferers. Although there is currently no cure there are a number of drug therapies available.
Unit 4222-261 Contribute to the support of individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities (SS OP 2.3) Outcome 1 Understand the impact of multiple conditions and/or disabilities of individuals 1.1 Patients with multiple conditions and/or disabilities have two or more disabling conditions that affect learning or other important life functions. These can be: * mental retardation, dementia * bad eyesight, blindness * hard of hearing, deafness * arthritis , paralised body/parts * etc 1.2 Multiple conditions usually have additional impacts on individuals’ well being and quality of life. A person with arthritis only can live at home with minimum help of a carer but elderly people who have arthritis and dementia in addition, for them it is safer to live in care home . Multiple conditions also require different kinds of medications which are not without side effects . This is also an additional impact on well being that patients have to live with.
Kyphosis Joshua Giordano Hodges University BSC 2001OL Professor Anna Avola Winter 2012 Abstract Kyphosis is an exaggeration or angulations of the posterior curve of the thoracic spine, giving rise to the condition commonly known as humpback, hunchback, or Pott’s curvature. It may be due to a congenital anomaly, disease, malignancy or compression fracture. Kyphosis also refers to an excessive curvature of the spine with convexity backward, which may result from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, rickets, or other conditions. How this condition will have an overall effect of the homeostasis of the body and how to correct or improve this condition will be explored. Kyphosis There are three main types of abnormal kyphosis: postural kyphosis, Scheuermann's kyphosis, and congenital kyphosis.
2.1 The meaning learning disability can be described as an incomplete or state of arrested development of the mind. An individual with a learning disability will have a significant impairment of intellectual function. There are several stages of learning disability that range from mild, moderate, severe and profound. 2.2 Causes of a learning disability can include environmental factors before, during and after birth. There can be chromosomal and genetic factors.
This can be caused by various diseases or disorders which affect different parts of the brain involved with the thought processes. Most of the cases are caused by Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, or dementia with Lewy bodies. All of these types of dementia can have similar symptoms but some symptoms may point to a particular cause. But, it may not be possible to say what is causing the dementia in every case. There are three different ways that might help to either slow the progress or stop it all
They could range from mild, moderate to severe. Some of these symptoms include fatigue, incoordination, spasticity, sensory loss and numbness, muscle weakness, cardiovascular dysautonomi, heat sensitivity, blurred vision, tremor, impaired sudomotor function, bladder dysfunction, cognitive or memory deficits and possible depression (Castellano, V. 2006). Most of the disability that is affiliated with multiple sclerosis is caused by the nerve fibers in the long pathways, like the pyramidal tract. This tract supplies the efferent and afferent signals to the legs and dorsal columns. With damage, it is not able to successfully send the signals, causing motor disability (Gutierrez, G. M. 2005).
Multiple sclerosis is an illness that affects the brain and spinal cord. It leads to problems with vision, muscle control, balance and sensation.MS is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system—a