Kyphosis

Alissa Stevens MED 2047 Osteoporosis Instructor Michelle Earixson-Lamonthe 3/12/2015 VNFT031 Osteoporosis is the cause of more than 8.9 million fractures annually, which results in an osteoporotic fracture every 3 seconds worldwide (Johnell, 2006). Making Osteoporosis a severe musculoskeletal disease. We will cover any the expected findings, signs and symptoms that you will find upon your assessment. It will also cover the routes of treatments, medications and preventive measures…

No free time like a regular child would get today, just going to the mines ready to have permanent scar on your body. Let’s say you are a 9 year old boy in the 1880’s. If you habited in the right side of the country, you were considered a hard-working factory worker.The majority of these kids were unhealthy, monotonous, and not incapable to continue on. In 1900’s, over 1.7 million children under the age of 16 works outside their homes. For many years, children had been suffering until the…

Of many debilitating conditions that are out there in the world, one I want to discuss is a condition known as scoliosis. This can be very debilitating and in some extreme cases can affect respiratory function. What will be discussed is what scoliosis is and what it does to the body, who and how many people are affected by it as well as who is most likely to develop this condition, the signs and symptoms of the disease, how to identify scoliosis and prognosis of this degenerative condition.…

Persuasive Essay Goodbye textbook, at this time teenagers prefer to use laptop than textbook because it is more useful. Most people use technology, mainly to entertain and train to learn, they know what happened in the world. There is more than one reason that people prefer computers. One of the reason is health benefit they give you benefits for your health since the books are very heavy and you can feel tired when you take them. The second benefits is for your education you acquire new…

These complications typically include vision problems, such as detached retinas or cataracts, faulty heart valves, dissections and aneurysms in the aorta and scoliosis or kyphosis in the spine (Genetics Home Reference, 2012). Sunken or protruding chest walls can lead to irregular accumulations of air in the chest cavity which can result in a spontaneous pneumothorax (Genetics Home Reference, 2012). With this information as…

ECTOPIA CORDIS Ectopia Cordis is a disfigurement of the heart where it is abnormally located partially or completely outside of the thorax cavity. It affects 8 out of 1 million babies and 90% are stillborn or die within the first three days of their life. There are other types of ectopia cordis. One type is called Cervical Ectopia cordis which is a type of 5% of the total cases. The heart is located in the neck of the infant. The second type is Thoracic Ectopia cordis that is of 65% of the…

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease which is also called CMT. It is said in National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke “That the physicians Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, and Howard Henry Tooth. In 1886 Charcot, Marie, and Tooth discovered a group of progressive disorders that affects the peripheral nerves” (NINDS). They still consider this disease to being rare in the United states. The estimated amount of people who are diagnosed is fewer than 175,00…

Osteoporosis Cameron Buss CNA 9/10 April Overview of Osteoporosis The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) defines osteoporosis as a disease in which the density and quality of bone are reduced (iofbonehealth.org). No symptoms can be identified until a fracture happens. As we get older the minerals in our bones become less and less making them weaker and more brittle. When our bones become brittle they do not absorb as much stress and can cause them to break. As we age, our…

increases to 5cm in men and 8cm in women in the next decade of life." The spine shrinks due to a normal age-related degenerative process which includes the discs, vertebrae and joints. "The loss of disc and vertebral body height will also increase kyphosis (forward bending of the spine) and contribute to apparent loss of height,"…

There are three types of movements that I know only too well. The first is the sweep: the initial take down of the opponent’s body by knocking his legs out from under him until he falls to the ground. Each bone pulsates in its own unique way as it braces for the impact while being crushed to the floor. The second movement is watching the Sensei urging the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitor to regain his stance. All of this eventually leads to the “tapping out” when you tap the floor to indicate…