Aria's cranial Nerve Case Study Professor: Sandra Clabough Pragya Devkota Khanal 11/17/2017 Introduction: This study examined Aria, a 30-year-old woman who was recently brought in the emergency room after a bicycle accident. Apart from her external physical injuries, it is assumed that she may have internal head injuries due to the visible fracture of her temporal bone.…
A Book Review of Where is the Mango Princess and the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Where is the Mango Princess is a tragic, heart wrenching, and deeply personal account of how traumatic brain injury affected the life of, author, Cathy Crimmins (2000) and the lives of her entire family. Crimmins wrote this account in order to share her experience of living and caring for a person with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to help those in the same position as her to cope with the myriad of changes that come along with such an unexpected incident. During her family’s last day on a vacation in Kingston, Ontario won in a school raffle, Cathy’s husband, Alan, took a boat trip to take away garbage and laundry from their cabin. On the way, a reckless teenager crashed into Alan's boat, running him over with her speedboat and causing massive bleeding and bruising to his brain. The accident caused Alan to fall into a coma for several weeks, and when he…
This essay will be focusing on the case study of Taylor. Taylor is 25 year old man who had a very bad motor vehicle accident and he sustained moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) and incomplete c6 spinal cord injury (SCI).SCI affects the conduction of sensory and motor signals across the sites of lesions. It can be either complete or incomplete injuries. In complete injury outcome in total loss of movement and sensation below the point of damage and incomplete injury there will be still a few function below the level of injury is retrained. (McDonald & Sadowsky, 2002).…
Kassy Markey Journal #1A The Secret Language of Sisters by Luanne Rice Pages this week: 259 862/600 What your sister was in a coma and it was really all your fault? What if you could have prevented all the pain and suffering? Roo, the person that got in the accident, was texting her other sister, Tilly.…
CC Jennifer is a 39-year-old female here today for followup regarding an episode of blurred vision, balance issues and slurred speech as well as her fatigue, insomnia as well as hair loss. HPI The patient tells me since I last saw her on July 28th that she has had no further episodes similar to what she experienced when she was flying. She is very pleased about that. She continues to stress over and ruminate over the cause of that, however, and it is really becoming an issue for her.…
Visualize a disease that leaves its victims powerless but are completely aware of everything that is in sight and the state the body is in. With every intention to move, the victim has no control over the body’s muscles, for not a single finger is lifted nor a smile displayed. Such a disease does exist and has affected many lives worldwide. This awful illness is named ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. With many diseases in the world, countless terrible ones are unknown like CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, which is also a progressive neurodegenerative disease.…
There are more than 200,000 US cases per year with an estimate ranging from 1.5 to more than 4: 1,000 live births or of defined age range. Symptoms can appear during infancy or preschool years. It affects “. . . body movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture, and balance. It can also impact fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and oral motor functioning.”…
By the time I received the email announcement that University of Michigan Health System diagnosed me with Acquired Dyscalculia, I felt like sinking into a bottomless glacial. Everything around me appeared as featureless hollow darkness. I heard with a chill on my back that the car accident occurred last summer was speculated to be cause. It was on way home back from Thailand, where I went to support the education at Vieng Neua Primary School as a volunteer. I was afraid, indeed, that the dyscalculia—a name that I had not heard before and a disease I was totally not familiar with—would jeopardize and ruin my study and life.…
On examination, the patient has normal strength and tone. No involuntary movements are noted. Her movements appear purposeful and normal, specifically there is no tremor or shaking and they are not slow. No fasciculations are noted. Tapping muscle tendons elicits a normal…
DOI: 8/7/2015. Patient is a 44-year-old female assistant teacher who sustained a work-related injury when she fell and hit her head on a shelf which resulted to loss of consciousness after being pushed by a child. She was subsequently diagnosed with post-consciousness syndrome and neck strain. Per the PT progress note dated 11/24/15, the patient has attended 4 sessions.…
The answer is Parkinson’s disease. I was interested in learning more about this disease because my grandmother has been dealing with it for a couple decades now and her symptoms have recently become much more severe. While researching this subject I consulted…
8 Months into my sophomore year of highschool, I faced the most arduous obstacle I had ever experienced. This imposing setback affected me in more ways that I had thought possible and later on becoming a truly significant turning point in my life. Summer was just around the corner, I was looking forward to making so many plans to fill up those 3 months that felt boundless at the time. Little did I know, late Sunday night my plans would be made for me. A summer full of successive doctors appointments.…
The movie that we viewed in class was My Beautiful Broken Brain. This film was mainly about Lotje Sodderland, and how she had experienced an intracerebral brain hemorrhage or a stroke. The film allows us to see what it was like along the road of recovery with her and all the struggles she underwent. A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident, is one of the most frequent cause of brain damage (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016). There are multiple types of strokes (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016).…
Title: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind Author: Dr. V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee About the author: Dr. V. S. Ramachandran is a professor of neurology and psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and Sandra Blakeslee reports on Science for The New York Times. All about Phantoms The book describes Dr. Ramachandran's experiences with patients who had clinical problems and provides an insight into how the human brain works. Dr. Ramachandran describes fascinating clinical syndromes in his own peculiar style. In this book, he makes an attempt to understand why brain damage can make someone think his parents are impostors, or a woman with a stroke laugh uncontrollably; how a man with a stroke can be unaware that his left side is paralyzed, or why certain types of epileptic patients have intense religious experiences.…
INTRODUCTION Oral health is an important aspect of life, and it directly affects the social, financial and mental health of everyone. The general public, especially in small countries like Guyana, tends to ignore the field of dentistry as an independent and important aspect of medicine despite the immense prevalence of oral diseases. Therefore, if the field of dentistry is shunned, it compromises the overall oral health of the general population and hence it increases their chances of having oral diseases.…