sitting or lying position‚ climbing stairs‚ maintaining balance‚ and raising arms.|· Loss of function in the muscles needed for movement‚ speech‚ eating‚ and breathing.|Causes|· Genes used to make protective proteins for muscle fibers are defective|· Nerve cells controlling muscle movement gradually die.|Current therapies (at least 2 for each)|· Moderate dose corticosteroids· After load reduction· Daily stretching exercises· Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation |· Riluzole/Rilutek for slowing
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The Muscular System: Contraction of Motor Units 1. Define a motor neuron:_____A single nerve cell that branches from the brain or the spinal cord to a muscle or a gland. 2. Define a motor unit: ___A motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it stimulates. 3. The synapse between a motor neuron and the muscle it innervates is called a ____neuromuscular junction_______. 4. The stimulation of additional motor units will increase the strength of the contraction. This process is called
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This is a collection of disorders that occurs when nerves of the peripheral nervous system are damaged. This is located near the nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord. Neuropathy causes many things such as pain and numbness in the hands and feet. But this results from traumatic injuries‚ infections‚ metabolic disorders‚ and exposure to toxic. Diabetes is the most common causes of neuropathy. Having this disorder can affect nerves that control the muscle movement; it can also affect
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Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior Neurons‚ or otherwise called nerve cells‚ are the basic elements of our nervous systems. We have as many as one trillion nerve cells throughout our bodies. These cells are responsible for controlling our behavior. So what is a neuron? “A neuron is a nerve cell that is the basic building block of the nervous system. Neurons are similar to other cells in the human body in a number of ways‚ but there is one key difference between neurons and other cells
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time; the reason could be that when you had to hear the sound for the voluntary activation you had to process the sound than process kicking. This would take longer than automatically kicking with the involuntary activation. In the body an impulse nerve signal had to be sent to the object reacting in this case kicking your leg. 2. How does your reaction time to the voluntary action of your quadriceps compare with your reaction time to the simple reaction task in Project 2.2.3? The task in this lab
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axillary arteries had to be reattached. Bicep and tricep muscle tissues and the humorous bone also had to be reattached. 3. What organ system was most likely not reattached? Explain. The nervous system‚ severed nerves cannot be reattached the same way; the severed nerves will not be useful again. 4. Why was a clean bite so important? The bite did not tear much tissue‚ making reattaching the arm possible. 5. Why was the bone shortened? In order to insert the plate‚ they
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Introduction to Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive movement disorder. It happens when nerve cells in the brain don’t produce enough of a brain chemical called dopamine. Parkinson’s disease was founded by a doctor in London in1817 name James Parkinson. He wrote a book called the “shaking palsy” that he researched in his neighborhood to find out where the disease came from Weintraub‚ D. (2008)” Dopamine and shaking palsy in “Parkinson’s disease” Practical Neurology
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June 22‚ 2015 The Tired Swimmer 1. She is experiencing constant fatigue‚ blurred vision‚ eye strain‚ gasping for air‚ hand and finger aches. 2. Blurred vision and eyes strain could have to do with the optic nerve‚ headache‚ soreness and fatigue. 3. In the spinal cord there are nerves that are in charge of these involuntary functions. There is also the medullary rhythmicity centers in the medulla oblongata that adjusts the rate of breathing. These could be possibilities that Annies is having
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Blood vessels and arteries. The brachial and ulnar collateral arteries‚ the Axillary‚ brachial‚ basalic‚ Median cubital‚ radial blood vessels. 3. What organ system was most likely not reattached? Explain. The nervous system would not reattach because nerve cells do not go through mitosis so they won’t grow back and reattach to each other. 4. Why was a clean bite so important? By it being a clean bite it was easier to attach the arm back on. There weren’t a lot of tissues that was shredded. 5. Why
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researched and constructed by me Signature........................................................... INTRODUCTION An electronic muscle stimulator is a circuit designed to stimulate nerves of that part of the body by attaching electrodes. It is used to revive frozen muscle that impair movement‚ it aid in building up muscles and it also helps in removing cellulites in the body EMS causes adaption‚ i.e. training of muscles fibers and
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