Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you had any kind of disability? Imagine that you can’t move or that you can only use one hand and one leg. What would you do? Would you give up? Or would you try everything you can to make yourself keep going and make something good of the disability you have?
Now imagine that you had any orthopedic impairment. “Orthopedic impairment is caused by congenital anomaly (clubfoot, absence of some member), impairments caused by disease (poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns which cause contractures). Orthopedic impairment affects body movement and muscle coordination. These conditions can be caused by damage to specific areas of the brain or other conditions or diseases affecting muscles, nerves or tissues. Orthopedic conditions may or may not be present with other disabilities.”
As I was researching its difficult, to generalize about the characteristics of students with orthopedic impairment. For example, a child with a spinal cord injury could have immobility limited to one side of his/her body, just the arms or legs, or total paralysis. A child with cerebral palsy may have movement, but need a wheelchair because he/she has slow, uncontrolled movements that make it difficult to walk.
Children with orthopedic problems might born with disability or acquire problems with their joints, bones or muscles later in life. Orthopedic problems can be the result of diseases, deformities, surgeries or injuries the child may face in life. Some genetic or birth problem that a child can face that would be consider an orthopedic issues would be, osteogenesis imperfect, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystroph...
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...tigue and endurance problems and/or effects of medications.
Psychological Factors -If the student has any cognitive or learning issues, this will affect performance. Also, some students may have motivational issues such as leaned helplessness or depression which will also impact on performance. A poor self-concept or poor self-advocacy skills can also affect performance.
Ineffective Learning Environment- Some school personnel have very low expectations for students with orthopedic impairments. When this is the case, the student is being set up for failure.
Orthopedic Impairment can’t be preventable, but I do believe that teachers or the school board can do many things to make a child with an orthopedic impairment welcome. Orthopedic Impairment affects children education so it is important that we do something in the classroom so the children feel more at ease.
Think about all the physical feats your body can do and how you use your body every day. There are many people across the globe who do not have this privilege. Hold that thought. The essays, “On Being a Cripple”, by Nancy Mairs, and “Living Under Circe’s Spell”, by Matthew Soyster are both about how each author deals with multiple sclerosis in their life and their opinions on it.
Dillon, P., & Grammer, E. (2001). Success stories of students with disabilities noted in new book. Science, 294(5543), 879.
Disability is a ‘complex issue’ (Alperstein, M., Atkins, S., Bately, K., Coetzee, D., Duncan, M., Ferguson, G., Geiger, M. Hewett, G., et al.., 2009: 239) which affects a large percentage of the world’s population. Due to it being complex, one can say that disability depends on one’s perspective (Alperstein et al., 2009: 239). In this essay, I will draw on Dylan Alcott’s disability and use his story to further explain the four models of disability being The Traditional Model, The Medical Model, The Social Model and The Integrated Model of Disability. Through this, I will reflect on my thoughts and feelings in response to Dylan’s story as well as to draw on this task and my new found knowledge of disability in aiding me to become
Simon and Donahue developed the Identification of Functional Ankle Instability questionnaire (IdFAI), specifically designed to detect whether individuals meet a minimum criteria necessary for inclusion in an FAI population.(6)
Stainback, Susan & William. (1985). Integration of Students with Severe Handicaps into Regular Schools. Virginia: The Council for Exceptional Children.
A reduction in your range of movement in the joint. This means you won’t be able to move your joint into the positions you did before, or move them as far.
What comes into one’s mind when they are asked to consider physical disabilities? Pity and embarrassment, or hope and encouragement? Perhaps a mix between the two contrasting emotions? The average, able-bodied person must have a different perspective than a handicapped person, on the quality of life of a physically disabled person. Nancy Mairs, Andre Dubus, and Harriet McBryde Johnson are three authors who shared their experiences as physically handicapped adults. Although the three authors wrote different pieces, all three essays demonstrate the frustrations, struggles, contemplations, and triumphs from a disabled person’s point of view and are aimed at a reader with no physical disability.
Orthopedic doctors specialize in the care and treatment of the issues involving the musculoskeletal system. By receiving extra training, the specialist is able to provide an accurate diagnosis for various conditions, including spinal disorders, arthritis, sports related injuries, trauma due to accidents or forcible impact to the body and fractures. A top rated orthopedic specialist will work with the patient on an individual basis to find the best course of
The Medical Model of disability has been the dominant paradigm of conceptualization disability: “For over a hundred years, disability has been defined in predominantly medical terms as a chronic functional incapacity whose consequence was functional limitations assumed to result from physical or mental impairment.” This approach to understanding disability tends to be more descriptive and normative by seeking out to define what is normal and what is not. Consequently, strict normative categories abound, namely the “disabled” and “abled” dichotomy. This model views the physiological difference itself as the problem, where the individual is the focus of that said disability.
...ase, has not been explored so far. The purpose of my research is to explore whether these responses are compromised prior to occurrence of osteoarthritis because of increased joint loading and poor neuromuscular responses. Despite recent advancements in characterising gait in obese adults, the current literature is lacking in comprehensive biomechanical studies that consider simultaneous neuromuscular responses (such as proprioception, quadriceps strength, range of motion) in lower limb joints that may contribute and initiate OA.
The majority of students with disabilities should be in an inclusive setting. These students are generally placed based on the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). Furthermore, the majority of these students are able to keep up academically with their peers, even
Mobility grants opportunity and lifelong experiences through the gift of exploration and independence. Without autonomy of movement in one’s life, there are struggles accompanied by frustration do to the lack of freedom and ability. It is an orthopedic surgeon’s job to bring function to one’s life even if they have never been granted movement without restraint before. Orthopedic surgeons receive patients whose freedom of movement have been compromised and then return it back to them. Orthopedic surgeons give immeasurable opportunities and life experiences back to their patients because of their perseverance and commitment to their patients and careers.
From a time, longer than I could remember, I had always known that I wanted to have a career in the medical field. My first choice was in Obstetrics, then after a few years, it changed to Dentistry. It was not until around the age of 11 that I discovered the career that I wanted to pursue after college, which was Orthopedic Surgery. Now to this day, this has been the first career choice that I still follow, research, and can proudly say I still hope to obtain.
In middle school I was diagnosed with a disability with the way I expressed myself through writing. Ever since, I have gained multiple values and learned several lessons about self confidence. I was taught to push past my limits, in order to be successful in reaching my goals along with my dreams. Today I am a senior in high school who was once thought to struggle, but was able to succeed beyond expectations. To some, a disability may seem like a setback from achieving goals, but to me I used it as a challenge for myself. I accepted myself for who I was and looked at my disability as a unique trait of mine. I was able to provide a message to others that anything you set your mind to is possible with dedication and hard work. It might take
So in case you have a deformity of the spine or limbs, you suffered a bone fracture or you have a long-term condition developed over the time, such as for example osteoarthritis, you should head to an orthopedic surgeon to treat your condition.