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Physically Disabling Conditions

Physically Disabling Conditions. Cerebral Palsy. What is it?. Chronic Condition. Symptoms vary Spasticity (Tightness of muscles) Involuntary movements Gait problems Difficulty swallowing and/or speech impediments Others. Etiology. Congenital CP brain injury during fetal life.

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Physically Disabling Conditions

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  1. Physically Disabling Conditions

  2. Cerebral Palsy

  3. What is it? • Chronic Condition

  4. Symptoms vary • Spasticity (Tightness of muscles) • Involuntary movements • Gait problems • Difficulty swallowing and/or speech impediments • Others

  5. Etiology • Congenital CP brain injury during fetal life.

  6. Risk Factors

  7. Diagnosis

  8. Types • Spastic • Athetoid • Ataxic

  9. Anatomic Groupings • Spastic Diplegia – Most common • Spastic Quadriplegia or Tetraplegia • Spastic Hemiplegia- one sided

  10. Functional Classificiations • Pg 472

  11. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) • Every 23 seconds a US citizen sustains a TBI • Insult to brain, not congenital • No two brain injuries are alike • Effects are complex and varied • BI can cause changes in internal functions • Changes can be temporary or permanent

  12. 1.4 million have a TBI each year • 50, 000 die • 235, 000 hospitalized • ( CDC, retrieved April,2010)

  13. Etiology • Outside forces • Direct blow to head • Rapid acceleration & deceleration of the head (Shaken baby syndrome) • Airway obstruction

  14. Motor vehicle-traffic crashes (20%); • Struck by/against events (19%); and • Assaults (11%) • Blasts are a leading cause of TBI for active duty military personnel in war zones.

  15. Sport related accidents • Bicycle Safety

  16. Symptoms • Spinal fluid • Loss of consciousness • Changes in vision • Balance problems • Coma • Paralysis • Vomiting

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