Imagine waking up one day and not being able to walk properly or feeling numbness in your legs. You’ve just experienced one of the most common symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Multiple sclerosis is a lifelong autoimmune disease typically found in young adults. Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative disorder of the myelin sheath. Loss of myelin followed by subsequent lack of neural communication and neuronal death is accepted as the primary cause of disability in MS patients (Dutta 2007). In MS…
Academic Dishonesty In technically terms I have been academically dishonest on numerous occasions. Most of these being in high school. These instances have been mostly within my group of friends who are pressured by our parents to do as best we can in school. Our group had different specialties in which people would say we were complete “nerds” in. Since we were in similar classes and had our different specialties we would use each other as resources while doing assignments. Sometimes it was…
likely to open up and tell you what is bothering them or what they need help with. My sister’s nurses were decent at this. The notes they took on her helped the doctors diagnose Theresa correctly. The nurses did a great job calming her while they ran multiple tests and when she was recovering from her surgeries. They changed her life like I want to help change others for the better. My father was an enormous factor in my decision to become a nurse. His advice was to choose something practical…
Bell’s palsy is defined as being a peripheral palsy of the facial nerve, resulting in unilateral muscle weakness of the face. Usually developing over one to three days, this facial paralysis typically reverses itself and normal function is restored without any medical intervention. In the rare case that it does not correct itself and treatment is necessary; medications, surgery, and physical therapy are indicated to assist in helping restore facial function. Goodman and Fuller state that…
Benefits of Legalizing Marijuana A well-known 1980’s comedian named Bill Hicks once said, “Why is marijuana against the law? IT grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit…unnatural? (goodreads.com)” There are various benefits from this naturally grown herb that America has failed to use to their advantage. The legalization of Marijuana would aid various individuals with the specific health issue they face. Numerous individuals stated…
used in order to test college student’s memory, along with the influence of various formatting of test questions, age, and major. True/false, short answer, multiple choice, and a recognition test were studied to determine which would receive the most accurate response rate. True/false…
Legalizing Medical Marijuana Legalizing marijuana has become more of a problem now than it was in the past. In today’s health care problems, medical marijuana has proven itself more than worthy to be up for the part of helping with mental as well as physical diseases. I believe medical marijuana should be legalized for the medical patients who suffer from mental illness as well as physical disease. Earlier this year, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator Patrick Leahy, and…
by an imbalance of signals from the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord, to the muscles. This imbalance is always known to be found in CVA/ABI clients, while dealing with cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, stoke, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury. 2. List what things a Specialist in Exercise Therapy should do if a client is having a seizure. - They should first loosen the clothing around the person’s neck. - Do not try to hold the person down or…
Gilenya is a drug that helps to treat patients suffering from multiple sclerosis by reducing the frequency of attacks and slow down the progression of the disease. This drug is an immunomodulator and acts on the immune system by blocking a specific white blood cell known as lymphocytes which are produced in the lymph nodes and attack the cells in the body. This results in a decrease in the number of lymphocytes in the blood stream. The objective of Gileyna is to delay the progression of the…
people are diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a unpredictable, sometimes disabling disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that blocks the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and the body. Multiple sclerosis is thought to affect more that 2 million people worldwide. For that many people to be affect to this disease you would think that it might be contagious but it is not and it is not directly inherited. Any one with Multiple Sclerosis often…