Non Traumatic Paraplegia
1. Provide a description of the disability and its causes. Include any relevant information such as statistics and diagnosis procedures.
Paraplegia is a permanent paralysis of the body caused by injury or disease affecting the spinal cord. Paraplegia is paralysis below the chest or waist. It involves the trunk and lower limbs; with quadriplegia the upper limbs are also affected.
Spinal cord injuries quite often are caused by a severe accident. Statistics show that like the majority of people with paraplegia sustained from injury from road accidents. These along with diving and sporting accidents affect many people for the rest of their lives. Spinal injury, resulting in paraplegia can also occur if the spinal cord is damaged through disease …show more content…
Life expectancy for a person with paraplegia is on average 90% of that expected by the abled bodied population, and 85% for people with quadriplegia. When damage to the spinal cord is a result of an accident, this sudden onset produces considerable psychological trauma.
Other causes:-
• Strokes, the most common cause of non-traumatic paraplegia.
• Genetic disorders, such as hereditary spastic paraplegia.
• Oxygen deprivation to the brain or spinal cord due to choking, childbirth complications, and other injuries.
• Autoimmune disorders.
• Infections of the brain or spinal cord.
• Tumours, lesions, or cancer of the brain or spinal cord.
• Spinal cord disorders such as syrinx.
2. Identify any stereotypes pertaining to the disability.
Many elite sports persons are pertained as a stereotype for paraplegia only because they are more likely to have a major accident, causing spinal damage.
3. Outline the issues that a student with that disability might face.
Length & often recurrent hospitalisation
Reduced mobility
Greater dependency on others
Involuntary control of bladder and bowel.
Complications from paralysis include: Urinary tract infections Kidney and bladder stones Muscle spasm Formation of pressure sores on
Paraplegia is a permanent paralysis of the body caused by injury or disease affecting the spinal cord. Paraplegia is paralysis below the chest or waist. It involves the trunk and lower limbs; with quadriplegia the upper limbs are also affected.
Spinal cord injuries quite often are caused by a severe accident. Statistics show that like the majority of people with paraplegia sustained from injury from road accidents. These along with diving and sporting accidents affect many people for the rest of their lives. Spinal injury, resulting in paraplegia can also occur if the spinal cord is damaged through disease …show more content…
Life expectancy for a person with paraplegia is on average 90% of that expected by the abled bodied population, and 85% for people with quadriplegia. When damage to the spinal cord is a result of an accident, this sudden onset produces considerable psychological trauma.
Other causes:-
• Strokes, the most common cause of non-traumatic paraplegia.
• Genetic disorders, such as hereditary spastic paraplegia.
• Oxygen deprivation to the brain or spinal cord due to choking, childbirth complications, and other injuries.
• Autoimmune disorders.
• Infections of the brain or spinal cord.
• Tumours, lesions, or cancer of the brain or spinal cord.
• Spinal cord disorders such as syrinx.
2. Identify any stereotypes pertaining to the disability.
Many elite sports persons are pertained as a stereotype for paraplegia only because they are more likely to have a major accident, causing spinal damage.
3. Outline the issues that a student with that disability might face.
Length & often recurrent hospitalisation
Reduced mobility
Greater dependency on others
Involuntary control of bladder and bowel.
Complications from paralysis include: Urinary tract infections Kidney and bladder stones Muscle spasm Formation of pressure sores on