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- handicap
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result of disability
Real world affect of disability on individual in their world - disability
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Deficit
Either physical, emotional, or intellectual diagnosed by specialist in the field - Criteria to be a part of VESID
- Must have disability that causes significant vocational handicap and that after VESID services are used, are able to function at maximum ability
- Necrosis
- process of dying tissue
- Pathy
- disease process
- Infarct
- area of dead tissue
- physiatrist
- doctor of physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Sclerosis
- Scarring
- Ischemia
- inefficient blood supply to some part of the body
- edima
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swelling
can take up to a year to go away - occlusion
- blocked completely
- 5 Stages of Mourning
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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Person with disability suffers same process
Mourning loss of ideal self
Leads to adjusting process - Paralysis
- Complete absence of motor functioning
- Plegia
- Loss of functional ability
- Paresis
- Partial diminishment of motor functioning
- Autoimmune Disease
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Body's own defense system turns on itself
Antigen invades, antibodies fight and defeat
Problem: antibodies start recognizing itself as if they were invaders
Attack beta cells