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Patient and Family Challenges of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

be on the alert for any changes in blood pressure, urinary tract, and body temperature (Jackson, 2000). Muscles must be exercised ...

The Central Nervous System

motion systems. Nishikawa (1997) points out that "most of the differences among insect nervous systems are found in the details o...

Male Fertility and Spinal Cord Injuries

search, the option of only consulting peer-reviewed journals was selected. Also, the search was narrowed to journal articles less ...

Case Study on Depression in a Paraplegic

drug abuse is a problem since intoxication can be a facilitating factor in impulsive suicide attempts (Assessment of patients, 200...

Coping With Spinal Cord Injury

leaving him paralyzed from his neck down. It seems to take a famous person to contract a disease or suffer such devastating injuri...

Traumatic Brain Injury - Job Coaching

negative emotions and maximize the positive emotions when faced with a task that is challenging. One of the issues with persons w...

To Live or Not to Live? and Coma

This paper deals with the issue of traumatic brain injury and coma, which includes the trauma of families facing the decision as t...

Spinal Cord Injuries and Pre Hospital Use of Methylprednisolone

injury is something that has gone from impossible to repair to something that can be repaired. While such injuries still do create...

Educational System and TBI

functioning, cognition, sensory-motor processing, attention and memory (2003). It may further affect speech and language and somet...

Spinal Transection and Burns Shock

personal and financial costs of this process can be staggering. Though the patient aches to return home, s/he may need to be avai...

Traumatic Brain Injury, Remediation

to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

Recovering from Brain Damage

The writer argues that brain injury is more common than is generally believed, and examines the incidence of such injury, the type...

The Impact of Schizophrenia

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

Nutrition Therapy/Neurological Disorders

the calcium gradients of the muscle" also plays a role in loss of muscle contractility (Burnham, Moss and Ziegler, 2005, p. 1818S)...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

Recreational Art Therapy Benefits

In six pages the uses of recreational art therapies and benefits for those individuals that are either suffering from a traumatic ...

Juvenile Delinquency and TBI

In seven pages traumatic brain injury is examined in terms of types, treatments, and also the relationship between TBI and juvenil...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

TBI and Students

of an injury. It often occurs due to a hard blow to the head that causes the brain to move and basically crash into the skull. Oth...

Disability and Information Processing

This research paper focuses on the topic of information processing and how it is relevant to dyslexia and traumatic brain injury. ...

Impact of Schizophrenia on Patients and their Families

The paper is a literature review on the topic of schizophrenia and the impact and influence that the condition has on patients and...

Medical Law

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

Empirical Evaluation

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...