Wheel Chair Flashcards
What are some seating goals? RA2P3EI
- Reduce risk of secondary complications
- Assure comfort and balance
- Accommodate vs.Correct skeletal deformities
- Promote symmetrical and stable sitting posture
- Promote skin care
- Provide safe equipment and training to reduce mobility related injuries
- Enhance respiration, swallowing, etc.
- Increase functional independence
Impact of poor posture
- Respiration
- Swallow
- Digestion
- Circulation
- Balance
- Functional upper extremity range
- Ability to move outside base of support
- Skin integrity
Canl that runs between the lamellae
Haversian canal
Where spongy bone is formed
Trabeculae
Part of bone where Osteoporosis is found
Head and neck of bone
What part of bone is lost with Osteoporosis
Trabeculae
Found in inter-medullary canal
Bone marrow
Process of producing new bones
Osteoblast
Process that breaks down bones
Osteoclast
A bone-forming cell found within the bone matrix (the hard part of the bone) which lies within a lacuna, a small pit, and communicates with its surroundings through tiny channels called canaliculi.
Osteocyte
What causes bone to break down?
Weight & forces.
What throws bones off balance?
Osteoporosis.
Part of bone that contain nerves which transmits pain
Periosteum
Number of weeks for bone healing?
six
Why should casting be done 2 weeks after fracture?
To ensure inflammation / swelling is reduced