Leg weakness in elderly women

    • [DOC File]12-06-07 Common Orthopaedic Complaints

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      Falls continue to plague the elderly population every year. ... 16 27.1 • Lost balance 15 25.4 • Missed curb or step 4 6.8 • Muscle weakness/leg gave away 3 5.0 Activity at time of the fall • Ambulating 33 55.9 • Ascending or descending stairs or step 13 22.0 • Reaching 7 11.9 • …

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    • Muscle Weakness in Legs: Causes and Treatments? | Menopause N…

      AROM weakness, but . preserved PROM. Demographic – extremely common in . elderly. Tx – ... post-partum women. Finkelstein’s Test – place thumb in closed fist, causes . ... ROM – conduct a straight leg raise (SLR) ( if okay, likely not joint problem.

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    • [DOC File]APHASIA AND OTHER DISORDERS OF HIGHER CORTICAL …

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      The authors investigated the effect of an anatomically designed external hip protector on the risk of these age-related fractures. 1801 ambulatory but frail elderly adults (1409 women and 392 men; mean age, 82 years) were randomly assigned to a group that wore hip protectors or a control group.

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    • [DOC File]Julie Smith - University of Kentucky

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      1) partial or complete (flaccid) paralysis of the leg muscles below the involved level with atrophy. 2) abnormal gait. 3) loss of deep tendon reflexes. 4) abnormal bowel and bladder function with incontinence. 5) decreased lumbar and sacral sensations. e.

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    • [DOC File]COMMON INJURIES TO THE UPPER EXTREMITY

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      Right leg weakness Right Hemisphere Lesion Right internal carotid or MCA Left-sided weakness and sensory loss, inability to gaze to the left, neglect of left visual space, cortical sensory defects (e.g. extinction of visual/tactile stimuli on left side when presented w/ simultaneously to both sides), difficulty drawing or copying, aprosodic ...

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    • [DOC File]C&P Service Clinician's Guide - Veterans Affairs

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      Middle aged and elderly women who suffer from osteoporosis often display this type of posture as a result of increased thoracic spinal kyphosis. ... Muscle weakness may be demonstrated by clawing of the hand, Wartenberg's sign or Froment's sign although these indications are not helpful in localizing the lesion. Because of the common anomalous ...

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    • [DOC File]Rough draft annotated bib - Veterans Affairs

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      a) leg > arm weakness * this was correct answer. b) marked motor and sensory loss. c) agnosia, aphasia, d) gaze to affected side (away from lesion) e) ALOC, primitive grasp and suck reflex (frontal) f) Bowel& bladder disturbance. Posterior cerebral artery. Hemianopia. Quadrantoanopias. Cortical blindness. Memory loss. Dyslexia. Hemisensory loss ...

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