Exam 1

Cards (86)

  • Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus

    First documented textbook about brain surgery and surgery. Discovered in 1862.
  • Paré
    Lower limb prosthesis. Established the cerebral origin of phantom pain.
  • Ling
    Linked medical rehabilitation and functional recovery.
  • Rehabilitation
    Goal is to provide people with disabilities the tools they need to attain greater independence.
  • ADLs
    bathing, dressing, transferring, hygiene, feeding
  • Medical Model
    Focus on disability. cure and manage. Disability is a defect that medicine must fix.
  • Social Model
    Environmental issue. Society has failed to provide services to ensure adequate functioning in society.
  • Individual Environment Model

    Not just medical nor just social. Combination of other two models.
  • ICF
    International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
    framework for measuring health and disability at both individual and population levels.
  • Impairment
    Deviation from certain generally accepted population standards of function.
  • Disability
    Any impairment, activity limitations, or participation restrictions that result from health condition or from personal, societal, or environmental factors.
  • Capacity
    The amount someone can do something
  • Performance
    A measurement of completing a certain task
  • Disease
    Changes in structure or function of body systems. (Focus on treatment and elimination of symptoms).
  • Illness
    Individual’s perception of their condition
  • Acute
    Sudden onset of symptoms, short term in nature
  • Chronic
    Symptoms last indefinitely, cause may not be identified
  • Trajectory
    Course of health condition over time
  • Course
    Nature or stages of condition. (stable, progressive, episodic, degenerative, exacerbations, remission)
  • Stable
    Condition is being managed; manifestations are not progressing.
  • Progressive
    Manifestations continue to progress/decline
  • Episodic
    Occasional flare-ups. Manifestations not always present
  • Degenerative
    Continuing breakdown of structure or function
  • Exacerbations
    The periods in which manifestations become worse
  • Remissions
    The periods in which symptoms remain stable or do not progress
  • Self-Concept
    Tied to self-esteem and personal identity. Perception of own strengths and weaknesses.
  • Self-Esteem
    Evaluative components of individual’s self-concept
  • Social Identity
    Individual‘s self-concept derived from perceived membership in social groups
  • Body Image
    Psychological view of body regarding appearance, sexuality, ability to perform physical tasks
  • Axon
    Conducts nerve impulses away from cell body to other neurons.
  • Dendrites
    Conducts nerve impulses toward cell body to from other neurons
  • Afferent Neurons

    Sensory. Carries message from body to CNS
  • Efferent Neurons

    Motor. Carries message from CNS to body
  • Myelin sheath
    Fatty sheath surrounding neuron. Helps impulses flow smoothly
  • Neurotransmitters
    Chemicals that transfer impulse from one neuron to another across the space between 2 neurons
  • Basal Ganglia
    Controls voluntary movement. Maintains posture. Reaction time.
  • Cerebrum
    Largest pet of brain. 2 halves. Layer of gray matter = cortex
  • Motor Cortex
    (Basal ganglia). Controls voluntary movement.
  • sensory cortex
    Perceives sensory stimuli
  • Frontal Lobe
    In front of each hemisphere. Initiates voluntary and skilled movements.