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| A nutritional assessment is an evaluation of an individuals |
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| health resulting from the intake and utilization of nutrition |
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| Influences of nutritional health |
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General Health
Body Composition
Dietary Intake
Eating and Lifestyle Habits
Metabolic Disorders |
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| The objectives of nutritional assessment |
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| Identify principal nutritional risk factors that may be corrected through nutritional intervention programs |
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| Information obtained from nutritional assessment |
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Food Intake
Eating Patterns
Environment
Personal and Family Situations
Stress
Physical Activity |
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| General Adaption Syndrome |
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Homeostasis
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Homeostasis or Death |
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| All systems reactive to everyday stressors in a balanced and healthful manner |
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| Perception of stressor. Slight drop in homeostasis as the mind and body temporarily lose balance |
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| Adaption resources are mobilized to combat stressor. Endocrine system comes to play |
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| Adaption and energy stores depleted. Replenish and body with return to homeostasis |
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| If stressors is too traumatic or if stressors cause wear and tear on the body over a long period without balanced management |
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| any stressor that motivates an individual toward an optimal level of performance or health |
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| negative interpretation of an event to be threatening that promotes continued feelings of fear or anger |
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Physical
Social
Intellectual
EMotional
Spiritual
Environmental |
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Types of Distress
Physical |
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Types of Distress
Intellectual |
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Mental Fatigue
Frustration |
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Types of Distress
Emotional |
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Uncontrolled anger
Inability to love |
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Types of Distress
Spiritual |
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Types of Distress
Environmental |
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Disease
Discontentment
Sadness
Early death |
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Cranial Nerves
Spinal Nerves
Autonomic and Somatic Nervous System |
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| perception of position and movement on one's body parts in space |
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| Kinesthesia is lost primarily due to |
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| Loss of Kinesthesia may as much as ___ and results in |
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| 40%; vertigo or dizziness |
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| Sensory receptors for musculoskeletal system |
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| Proprioceptors provide info about |
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joint position
muscle length and tension
velocity of movement |
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Muscle spindles
Golgi Tendon Organs
Ruffini Endings
Pacinian Corpuscle
Neck proprioceptors
Labyrinths System |
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| Specialized receptors that are sensitive to muscle lenth and tension and perhaps velocity of contraction |
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Located at the musculoskeletal junction and monitors force or tension
Spindle-shaped collection of collagen fibers connected into extrafusal fibers |
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| inhibitory response in the spinal cord known as the inverse stretch reflex that causes relaxtion |
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Specialized receptors located in the joint capsule
As you move your joints, it wind the "spring" tighter |
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Specialized Receptors located in the joint capsule
These respond to pressure created by muscle to joint pain |
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| important in equilibrium, located at C1-C3, detect movement of head and neck |
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| Located in the inner ear cochlea and semicircular canals. Fluid in these canals detects upright position |
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| Changes in Gait as you grow older |
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Decreases in:
Step length
Stride length
Foot swing
Increases
Step width
Double support of both fee |
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increase work capacity
decrease frequency of hospitalizations
increase sense of well-being |
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| Patients not limited by impaired pulmonary function, follow similar programs as cardiac patients, along with breathing exercises |
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| Moderate impairment exercise should not exceed 60-80% of ventilatory limit-breathing (less than 30 breaths per minute) exercise short duration possibly several times a day |
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| Oxygen supplement-interval training with decreased intensity |
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| Geared for efficiency and energy conservation for daily task |
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| COPD Exercise Precautions |
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Be aware of desaturation
SOB
Change in sputum color
Weight gain due to fluid
Note meds that could have effect on exercise
Watch for increased HR |
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| Functions of the nervous system |
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| Too little stress and too much stress decreases performance level but optimal stress creates optimal performance |
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| Hearing loss is a result of |
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Loud, sudden high pitch noise
Infections
Perforated or scarred tympanic membranes
Excess ear wax
Middle ear fluid
Atrophy of blood vessel supplying organs of cochlea
Hair cell degeneration in the cochlea or nerve cell loss |
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| decreased sensitivity to dim light due to pupil size and ability of lens to transmit light and retina changes involving rod function |
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| Vision effects with agign |
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Lens loses elasticity
Ciliary muscles lose strength
Cornea becomes more flattened |
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| Nearsightedness is called |
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| Point of focus is in front of retina |
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| point of focus is in back of retina |
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Associated with loss of lens elasticity and development of presbyopia
Opacities develop around periphery and close in
corrected by removal of len and replaced with acrylic lens |
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| decrease in blood sugar decline also decreases in sensation due to decrease in gastric secretion |
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| loss of olfactory receptors and decrease in brains interpretive area of smell |
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Total sleep time decreases
Takes longer to fall asleep
Elderly awake earlier and more frequently
Total REM and Stage 2 time unchanged but stage IV sleep decreases by 15-30% |
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| Menopause starts around age ___ and does not appear to be related to ____ |
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| Menopause caused primarily by |
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| declining ovarian function resulting in decreased ovarian secretion |
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| _____ decreases in premenopausal phase |
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| decrease in size around 30, shrinking accelerates after 60 |
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| atrophies and decreases in size |
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| Vagina ___, ___, and ____ |
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| shortens, narrows, and loses some of its elasticity |
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| ability to lubricate quickly |
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| increases from4-6 when young to 6.5-8 contributing to increased vaginitis |
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| Potential symptoms of menopause |
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Hot Flashes
Mood swings
facial hair
weight gain |
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| Changes in male center around sexual behavior |
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Sexual drive
Erectile and ejaculatory capacity |
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| Sexual drive is mainly influenced by |
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| health status, environment, social, and psychological factors |
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| In males, amount of time between orgasms |
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| Testicles age related changes |
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decrease weight
atrophy
results in decrease spermatogenic activity and collapse of tubules |
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| Erectile Reflex diminish causing |
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Ability to obtain an erection is slowed
Angle of erection declines
ability to maintain erection is diminished |
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