Across
- 2. Due to the fact that many healthcare providers choose to not participate in Medicaid/Medicare programs, individuals with physical impairments often are force to ____ to a distant facility.
- 6. Decreased muscle tone
- 8. Which of the following medications is not a common antiseizure medication? Dilantin/ Tegretol/ Depakote/ Atropine/ Klonopin/ Phenobarbital
- 9. Injury to the ____ vertebrae can cause inability to control abdominal muscles and trunk instability.
- 11. The primary obstacle that people with impairments face in regard to health care
- 12. True/False. During a seizure, you should enter a tongue depressor into the patient’s mouth to prevent him/her from biting on his/her tongue.
- 13. Describes the difficulties or challenges experienced by a person with physical impairments as a result of another individual's misunderstanding or ignorance.
- 14. An inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive systems via an unusually thick, sticky mucus.
Down
- 1. If the patient has seizures, record information in the chart about the ____ of seizures and the medications used to control them.
- 3. What allergy is prevalent among patients with spina bifida?
- 4. ____ is the most common form of muscular dystrophy and primarily affects boys.
- 5. Increased muscle tone
- 7. The majority of new spinal cord injury cases each year involved ____ between the ages of 16 and 30.
- 8. ____ etiologic causes can include infectious disease, congenital conditions, and developmental problems or chronic health problems that are poorly understood.
- 9. Resulting from an agent that affects the embryo during pregnancy
- 10. Refers to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles that control movement.