Physical disabilties
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- Created on: 15-06-18 09:45
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- Physical disabilities
- Traumatic brain injury
- Causes
- Road traffic accidents
- Assaults
- Falls
- Accidents a home or at work
- What is it?
- Occurs when an external force injures the brain.
- Can affect all aspects of a persons life including personality
- Person doesn't realise a brain injury has occurred.
- Causes
- Epilepsy
- Causes
- Stroke
- Brain tumour
- Severe head injury
- Drug abuse
- Alcohol misuse
- Brain infection
- Lack of oxygen during birth
- What is it?
- Condition that affects the brain and causes seizures.
- Starts in childhood or over 60 years of age.
- Can sometimes get somewhat better over time.
- Seizures - burst of electrical activity in the brain that temporarily affects how it works.
- Causes
- Cerebral palsy (CP)
- Causes
- Bleeding in a baby's brain or reduced blood and oxygen to the baby' brain.
- An infection caught by the mother during pregnancy
- Meningitis
- Serious head injury
- What is it?
- Name for a group of lifelong conditions that affect movement and co-ordination
- Obtained before, during or soon after birth.
- Causes
- Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- Causes
- Genetic condition caused by a faulty gene.
- Movement of water and salt in and out of cells affected.
- What is it?
- Genetic condition caused by a faulty gene.
- Causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and the digestive system.
- Causes lung infections and problems with digesting food.
- Causes
- Spinal cord injury (SCI)
- Causes
- Result from damage to the vertebrae, ligaments, disks of the spinal column or to the spinal cords itself.
- May occur from a sudden traumatic blow to your spine.
- Causes
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Causes
- Autoimmune condition - when something goes wrong with the immune system and mistakenly attacks a healthy part of the body
- Immune system attacks the layer that surrounds and protects the nerves
- Sheath and underlying nerves are damaged.
- Messages travelling along the nerves become slowed or disrupted.
- What is it?
- Condition which affects the brain and or spinal cord.
- Can cause problems with vision, arm or leg movement, sensation or balance.
- Causes
- Spina bifida (SB)
- Prada-Willi syndrome (PWS)
- Traumatic brain injury
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