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RST 230: Final Exam Questions And Answers |
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Disability - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Any restriction or lack
(resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an
activity in the manner or within the range considered
normal for a human being
Impairment - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Any loss or
abnormality of psychological, physiological, or
anatomical structure or function
Handicap - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ A disadvantage for a
given individual that limits or prevents the fulfillment of
a role that is normal
Arthritis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Most common disability
in the US; 54.4 million people have it. Inflammation of
joints that results in stiffness, swelling, and pain.
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Osteoarthritis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ "Wear and Tear";
degenerative joint disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Auto-
immune disease; own immune system attacks the lining of
your joints; flu-like symptoms: feel sick, pains, sweats,
fever
Cerebral Palsy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Impairment to
the motor portions of the brain; Either happens during
the fetal stage or during child birth. Range of symptoms
and range of severity
Spastic CP - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Permanently
contracted muscles, shorter limbs, shaking, tremor, poor
vision, with severe cases, speech and swallowing effect
as well
Dyskinetic CP - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Involuntary,
uncontrolled, slow twisting movements of muscles,
intention tremor (IT)
Ataxic CP - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ least common; lack of
coordination and oral, may have speech problems
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Multiple Sclerosis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Genetic; can
have in the brain/spinal cord; cannot get through those
scars, fatigue, feel tired for no reason,
numbness/tingling in feet/hands, depression; diagnosed
with significant delay
Considerations with leisure: weaker, gets progressively
worse, periods of recovery; need to watch for
depression signs.
Muscular dystrophy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ General
designation for a group of chronic hereditary diseases;
posture changes during progression of Duchenne
muscular dystrophy; characterized by progressive
degeneration and weakness of voluntary muscles; body
not producing a protein that sustains your muscles
Childhood Muscular Dystrophy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Affects only boys; diagnosed between ages 2 and 5; no
cure, usually die around 20 years old
Limb Girdle MD - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Affects muscles
of pelvis and shoulders, usually appears in teen years in
men and women; progresses slowly
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FSH (Facio-scapulohumeral) MD - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Facial muscles and spreads down neck and upper arms;
Weaker, tired very easily, in hospital a lot, parents are
protective
Poliomyelitis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Polio muscle
paralysis caused by acute affection of the central
nervous system, spreads through
bathroom/contaminated water, can be partial or
complete, FDR, can vaccinate against
Spina Bifida - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Neural tube defect
when one or more of the vertebral arches fail to close
Spina Bifida Occulta - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ 10-20% of
infants, opening in spine but nothing sticking out, spinal
cord undamaged, very mild/no symptoms, common
Spina bifida Manifesta - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ 1/1000
births; the worst kind; spinal cord damaged; two types:
meningocele and myelomeningoele
Meningocele - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Approx. 4% of
children born with SB, cyst with tissue covering the spinal
cord and cerebro - spinal fluid
RST 230: Final Exam Questions And Answers |
2025 Updated Solutions | 100% Correct
Answers
Disability - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Any restriction or lack
(resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an
activity in the manner or within the range considered
normal for a human being
Impairment - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Any loss or
abnormality of psychological, physiological, or
anatomical structure or function
Handicap - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ A disadvantage for a
given individual that limits or prevents the fulfillment of
a role that is normal
Arthritis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Most common disability
in the US; 54.4 million people have it. Inflammation of
joints that results in stiffness, swelling, and pain.
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Osteoarthritis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ "Wear and Tear";
degenerative joint disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Auto-
immune disease; own immune system attacks the lining of
your joints; flu-like symptoms: feel sick, pains, sweats,
fever
Cerebral Palsy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Impairment to
the motor portions of the brain; Either happens during
the fetal stage or during child birth. Range of symptoms
and range of severity
Spastic CP - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Permanently
contracted muscles, shorter limbs, shaking, tremor, poor
vision, with severe cases, speech and swallowing effect
as well
Dyskinetic CP - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Involuntary,
uncontrolled, slow twisting movements of muscles,
intention tremor (IT)
Ataxic CP - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ least common; lack of
coordination and oral, may have speech problems
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Multiple Sclerosis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Genetic; can
have in the brain/spinal cord; cannot get through those
scars, fatigue, feel tired for no reason,
numbness/tingling in feet/hands, depression; diagnosed
with significant delay
Considerations with leisure: weaker, gets progressively
worse, periods of recovery; need to watch for
depression signs.
Muscular dystrophy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ General
designation for a group of chronic hereditary diseases;
posture changes during progression of Duchenne
muscular dystrophy; characterized by progressive
degeneration and weakness of voluntary muscles; body
not producing a protein that sustains your muscles
Childhood Muscular Dystrophy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Affects only boys; diagnosed between ages 2 and 5; no
cure, usually die around 20 years old
Limb Girdle MD - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Affects muscles
of pelvis and shoulders, usually appears in teen years in
men and women; progresses slowly
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FSH (Facio-scapulohumeral) MD - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Facial muscles and spreads down neck and upper arms;
Weaker, tired very easily, in hospital a lot, parents are
protective
Poliomyelitis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Polio muscle
paralysis caused by acute affection of the central
nervous system, spreads through
bathroom/contaminated water, can be partial or
complete, FDR, can vaccinate against
Spina Bifida - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Neural tube defect
when one or more of the vertebral arches fail to close
Spina Bifida Occulta - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ 10-20% of
infants, opening in spine but nothing sticking out, spinal
cord undamaged, very mild/no symptoms, common
Spina bifida Manifesta - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ 1/1000
births; the worst kind; spinal cord damaged; two types:
meningocele and myelomeningoele
Meningocele - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Approx. 4% of
children born with SB, cyst with tissue covering the spinal
cord and cerebro - spinal fluid
