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     I read the article entitled "A Typical Day with Mild Cognitive Impairment". In the article, it talks about a project that was done by the University of Pennsylvania's Memory center where patients were to take pictures on a camera of a "typical day" living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Afterwards, the patients discussed the aspects of their life that frustrate, facilitate, or challenge their memory. To further my learning I made sure to understand what MCI is and how it is diagnosed so I could better understand the article. I chose this resource amongst others because I have heard a lot about cognitive impairments, dementia, and Alzheimer's, but I never knew or heard of MCI. I wanted to learn about what MCI stood for/meant, and what the difference was from dementia or Alzheimer's.      In relation to our course content, I learned that it is important to consider caregivers as well as the patient when creating intervention strategies. In the...

     When your client needs assistive devices it is important to fit your client appropriately to ensure safety and proper use of the device. Devices are not usually a universal fit to everyone, so it is important to fit the equipment to your client's height and size to ensure safety. If it is not ft properly it will decrease the stability of the assistive device. It is also important to fit your client appropriately so that the device is at its maximum potential for function and performance. You don't want your client's device to not work properly because it is not fitted to your client correctly.      There are two types of canes a client could use: straight cane and quad canes. For both canes, you want to adjust the hand grips to be at the level of the ulnar styloid process, wrist crease, or greater trochanter. When making this adjustment, you want to make sure your clients elbows are relaxed, flexed at 20-30 degrees with shoulder relaxed and not el...

When I think of ad's that stuck out to me, I immediately think back to the 2010 World Cup ad. In this ad, they used the celebrity, Shakira, song "waka waka" and part of her music video in the ad (link to ad is below). I immediately think of this ad because that year when the World Cup was happening and they were making the ad's for it, that song was very popular. The used a popular song and a popular artist at the time to draw people's attention to their ad. It was to get more people excited and to tune in to watch the World Cup. The World Cup is a major sporting event, and a lot of people think back to those kinds of ad's. It's similar to how people always look forward to the Super Bowl commercials more than the actual football game. The part of the brain called the amygdala is responsible for emotions that deal with reward, desire, and loyalty. The hippocampus deals with deep seeded memories; memories that are burned into your brain. Similar to how this ...

Here are some consideration when performing a transfer with a patient: It is important to consider proper positioning when performing transfers with patients. You do not want the patient to have their arms around your neck when you're helping to transfer them. This is also important for the therapist so they do not get injured or they do not injure the patient. The patient should place their arms around the therapists' hips to ensure safety.  It is important that the therapist does not lift the patient when performing a transfer. It is important that the patient uses their own strength to do the transfer. The use of a gait belt would ensure the safety of the patient if the therapist needed to catch them from falling.  Understanding what devices are needed for the transfer is important to consider. That could be a sliding board, a walker, wheelchair, or gait belts. To ensure safety of the patient, make sure the brakes on wheelchairs are locked, caster wheels on the wheelchair a...

 In class this week, we were assigned to read two chapters from the book "50 Abilities, Unlimited Possibilities: Wheeling Through 50 States From Jackson to the Boston Marathon Bombing" by Paul Erway. Each chapter in the book is about a marathon in a different state that Paul Erway participated in. The two states I chose to read and reflect on were Florida and Louisiana.  Florida: Miami, Florida was the 4th race Erway competed in. When Erway and others arrived in Miami, he had arranged for a wheelchair-accessible rental van for the weekend. It turned out that the van was not wheelchair-accessible, but the company said it was accommodating, meaning that the driver was strong enough to lift them into the van. They were later able to secure a wheelchair-accessible Caravan for the weekend through the help of the National Mobility Dealers Association. Their mission is to "unify and improve mobility equipment industry and help people with disabilities lead happy; healthy and mo...

 #1 #2 #3 With their permission, I have taken 3 pictures of my friends in different positions. In the first picture, Brianna is laying in the bed watching Tik Toks. In the second picture, Emily is taking notes on her IPad. In the third picture, Aliyah is taking a break after class.  In picture #2, Emily's pelvis is in an posterior tilt. Her thoracic kyphosis is increased along with cervical flexion from looking down at her IPad. Her scapulae is protracted from rounding her back, and her femurs are parallel with the ground and help to create a 90 degree angle at the knees and at the hips.  This position would keep Emily stable since she has a bigger base of support, but her mobility might be decreased since she is sitting. I believe it would be fairly easy to change in and out of this position. Her arms are helping her support her body as she is leaning over the table. This would make the upper extremities not free. If she were to not use her arms as added support, her upp...

A few years ago, there was a huge debate on social medial about if a dress was either blue and black or white and gold. According to Bevil Conway, when looking at the picture of the dress, your eyes are trying to discount the chromatic basis of the daylight axis. As human, we are evolved to see in daylight. Daylight changes colors throughout the day. Pinkish red at dawn, blue-white at noon, and reddish at twilight. Oddly enough, this is why some people see the dress as blue and black and others see it as white and gold. Light enters the yes through the lens, where different wavelengths correspond to different colors. The visual cortex of your brain is the part that processes neural connection signals into an image.  Your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off what you're looking at and that's when the wavelengths kick in to tell you what color you see. Neuroplasticity are the things in the nervous system that mold and change during the lifespan. Seeing the dress as ...