Muscular Dystrophy P2
- Created by: Grace.2006
- Created on: 06-12-22 16:10
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- Muscular Dystrophy
- Symptoms
- Frequent falls
- Difficulty rising from a lying or sitting position
- Trouble running and jumping
- Waddling gait
- Walking on the toes
- Walking on the toes
- Large calf muscles
- Muscle pain and stiffness
- Learning disabilities
- Trouble swallowing
- Heart problems
- Identified needs
- Accessing physio and occupational therapies
- Adapting care plans to ensure holistic care is given
- Referrals to support groups
- Ensuring that exercises and techniques are being practiced to help with mobility
- Assistance attending low-impact aerobic exercise classes or sessions
- Administering medications/ injections
- Assistance with day to day tasks
- Assisting with personal care
- Close monitoring of the condition
- Adjustments
- Assistive technology for communication purposes
- Providing an advocate to express preferences and interests into care plans
- Attending occupational therapy meetings to ensure that ramps, and other mobility aids can be given to the service user
- Ensuring that carers knowledge is up to date o muscular dystrophy
- Tools to assist with personal care - bath lift etc
- Providing opportunities to promote independence
- Assistance with mobility around schools for children with muscular dystrophy
- Providing a social worker to help assist them with their finances and accessing government benefits
- Knowledge of disability friends spaces an settings
- Providing emotional support for them
- Talking therapies could be included
- Symptoms
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