different people. For a man who has not taken the best care of himself health wise‚ was drafted into the Vietnam War‚ and lost his wife‚ Toby amazes me with how well he still functions in everyday life. According to the textbook in chapter three‚ older people tend to show signs of decreasing physical attributes‚ such as skin‚ hair‚ weight‚ and mobility. As I listened to Toby talk‚ I studied his outward appearance. His skin was flawless; his face was acne free and wrinkle free. Yes‚ he did have a
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DOI: 2/5/2003. Patient is a 71-year-old female teacher who injured her back when she fell after trying to avoid stepping on a student. Patient was seen and diagnosed with disc degeneration of the lumbar spine‚ facet arthropathy status post blocks in the past which gave good relief. MRI of the lumbar spine dated 2/25/05 revealed no significant change compared with the study of 1/30/04. There is spondylolisthesis and spondylosis at L4-5 with facet degenerative changes and mild bilateral foraminal narrowing
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Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory highlights one stage that is relevant and demonstrated in the 1985 movie‚ The Breakfast Club. Identity vs. Role Diffusion‚ or also known as‚ Stage 5‚ is the foundation for the characters and plot of this movie. To begin with‚ the plot of the movie deals with a group of adolescents dealing with stereotypes and finding their identities. At the beginning of the movie‚ the teens are in “fragile” and “detrimental-like” stages. They do not really know who they are‚
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Psychosocial Assessment of Good Will Hunting December 06‚ 2011 Identifying Information Will Hunting is a 20 year-old Caucasian male of Irish decent. He turned 21 before the time he was terminated from therapy. He was always casually dressed in slacks‚ or jeans and t-shirt or short sleeves shirt like most youths or teenagers. Although he had few clothes as evidenced by the fact that he wore the same two or three outfits to all his therapy sessions‚ his clothes were always clean. Referral
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NASA was also aware of several personality issues‚ that left unaddressed had the potential to cause problems down the line. These issues were that the team had never been in space before‚ no one on the crew shared any personal ties with either of the two previous crews‚ and that Skylab 3’s science pilot‚ Gibson‚ was known to be one of the
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As the patient-therapist interaction is a collaborative effort of both participants‚ in the above conversation the therapist used an interrogative mode to know about the severity of pain while giving the treatment (Thornborrow‚ 2002). The intention may be to modulate the treatment according to the response from the patient side and the answer expected would have to be yes or no on the basis of the given form of the question. But‚ the patient utterance was not a direct answer. Instead of that‚ the
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“As I Grew Older‚” by Langston Hughes is a poem about a young man is thinking about his goals and that he cannot achieve them because of racial prejudice. The theme of the poem is that prejudice is used to keep people from accomplishing their dreams. Hughes expresses this idea by using imagery‚ anaphora‚ and symbol. Throughout the poem‚ Hughes refers to different symbols to show the barriers between blacks and whites in society during that time period in the early 20th century. In the first stanza
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Assignment #3 Supervision Scenario Case #1 In the first supervision scenario there is an example of patient’s noncompliance with MDs protocol. The orthopedic MD should be contacted by PT prior to initiation of exercises to verify for any protocol adjustments. Since this case involves stretching that requires continuous examination and evaluation throughout the intervention it’s required to be performed exclusively by the physical therapist as stated in APTA Guidelines: “The physical therapist’s
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Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Erik Erikson describes psychosocial development as occurring in stages. He describes the different stages according to personality traits shown at the various stages. I have interviewed and made my observations of persons at the different stages as follows: Infancy (birth to 18 months) Trust vs. Mistrust A one year old baby was observed during a session of breastfeeding. The baby is hungry and it is time for the mother to breastfeed him. She picks up
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Memories of the first stage of Erikson’s psychosocial development are nearly impossible for people to remember‚ for it is experienced from birth to approximately twelve to eighteen months. Even though we fail to explicitly remember it‚ the issue of trust is the first important developmental crisis that we all face as a newborn‚ for an infant relies on its caregivers for basic survival (Swartwood‚ 2012‚ p. 83). Children who grow up receiving reliable and fairly consistent care will typically end
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