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| ACUTE MEDICAL PROBLEMS/COMPLICATIONS AFTER CVA |
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SENSORY DEFICITS
DYSARTHRIA
(R)&(L) HEMIPARESIS
COGNITIVE DEFICITS
APHASIA
VISUAL-PERCEPTUAL-DEFICITS
BLADDER CONTROL
HEMIANOPSIA
ATAXIA
DYPHAGIA |
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| GROUP OF SPEECH DISORDERS RESULTING FROM DISTURBANCES IN MUSCULAR CONTROL. |
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| WEAKNESS OF THE LEFT & RIGHT SIDE OF THE BODY |
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| CONDITION IN WHICH HALF OF THE BODY IS PARALYZED |
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| ABSENCE OF COGNITIVE LANGUAGE PROCESSING ABILITY, WHICH RESULTS IN DEFICTS IN SPEECH, WRITING, OR SIGN COMMUNICATION. CAN BE RECEPTIVE, EXPRESSIVE, OR BOTH. |
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| INABILITY TO PRODUCE THE WORKD THEY INTEND TO DAY |
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| INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING |
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| BOTH EXPRESSIVE AND RECEPTIVE APHASIA |
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| POOR BALANCE AND AWKWARD MOVEMENT; UNCOORDINATED MOVEMENT, ESPECIALLY WITH GAIT |
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*DEEP VEIN THROMBUS*
-A BLOOD CLOT IN THE DEEP VENOUS SYSTEM OF THE LOWER OR UPPER EXTREMITY, WHICH CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IF THE CLOT BECOMES DISLODGED; IT COULD TRAVEL TO THE LUNGS AND CREATE A PULMONARY EMBOLISM |
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| PELVIS IN NEUTRAL, NO ANTERIOR OR POSTERIOR TILT, SPINE IS IN MID-LINE, UPPER AND LOWER IN NEUTRAL POSITION |
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| SPASTICITY, SLOW, DEEP PRESSURE |
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| DECREASE IN THE MUSCLES TONE AND STRETCH REFLEX OF A MUSCLE RESULTING IN DECREASED RESISTANCE TO PASSIVE STRETCH AND HYPORESPONSIVENESS TO SENSORY STIMULATION. |
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| MOST SHOULDER DISLOCATIONS ARE ANTERIOR, THE SHOULD CAN ALSO BE PARTIALLY DISLOCATED, OR SUBLUX, POSTERIORLY, OR INFERIORLY. |
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| CHARACTERIZED BY SWELLING OR EDEMA IN THE HAND, FOREARM, AND UPPER ARM; TENDERNESS; LOSS OF ROM AND VASOMOTOR DEGRADATION. PAIN AND SUBLUXATION MAY OR MAY NOT BE PRESENT. |
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| THE PATIENT HAD NO SENCE THAT THE HEMIPLEGIC SIDE OF THE BODY EVEN EXISTS |
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| INABILITY TO MOTOR PLAN, EXECUTE PURPOSEFUL MOVEMENT, MANIPULATE OBJECTS, OR USE OBJECTS APPROPRIATELY |
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| ACQUIRING AN INTERNAL AWARENESS OF THE BODY AND RELATIONSHIP OF THE BODY PARTS TO EACH OTHER; PERCEPTION OF ONE'S PHYSICAL SELF THROUGH PROPIOCEPTIVE AND INTEROCEPTIVE SENSATIONS |
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| DEPRESSION IS A COMMON REACTION TO ANY CATASTROPHIC EVENT. CAUSED BY NATURAL GRIEF TRYING TO COPE WITH THE LOSS OF FUNCTION, LOCATION OF BRAIN LESION, OR PREVIOUS Hx OF DEPRESSION |
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| SIGNS THAT ELDERS ARE STRUGGLING WITH THE REALITY OF THEIR CONDITION. |
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| THE RESTING POSITION/POSTURE OF THE ARM OR LEG CAUSED BY MUSCLE TONE AFTER A CVA. IMMEDIATELY AFTER A CVA, REFLEXES BECOME ACTIVE IN THE ARM AND LEGS. AS THE RELFEXES EXTINGUISH AND MUSCLE TONE RETURNS, ARMS AND LEGS ASSUME TYPICAL POSTIONS OF REST. |
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