The dramatic change determined by an acquired severe disability could be the beginning of a new life: the case study of Alessandro.
Record number: 23
Last update: May 2003
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: May 2003
Type of document: Thesis
Author: Gabrielli M A
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 1999-2000
Year of publication: 2000
Abstract:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The case study regards a boy 21 years old, quadriplegic from traumatic cervical spianl cord injury (***C5 level) due to a dive in low water. The traumatic event has been necessary 30 May “96, when the boy was 17 years old. After l” incident a extended necessity of assisted respiration has been had and has been necessary an participation of cervical stabilization. Alexander introduces moreover bladder and ***alvo neurological (intermittent ***cateterismo) and sexual impotence (is erection that ejaculation). Much bond introduces a cognitive level: at the moment of the incident it attended III the advanced one, currently has been promoted in V accounting, Course Programmers. The boy has been taken in load ***dalla our structure ***dal the 15-09-96 to the 20-05-97 in regimen of hospital admission, ***dal the 21-05-97 to the 15-02-98 in regimen of ***day hospital.Il assessment project and supply assistive devices is of retrospective type and regards is the adoption of ortheses and assistive devices for the personal mobility in the activity of the daily life, is the modifications of the room, in order to allow one better accessibility. Son of whom channelized parents, to the age of the incident lived with the father and the paternal grandmother, after the incident has gone to be with the mother, for which all the modifications to the room have been realized in the address of the mother. Moreover it has been carried out a ***multidisciplinary participation for its scholastic re-introduction. In all it makes yourself of the treatment has been of great importance the which addressed psychological support is to the patient who to the relatives who to the ***operator
(text automatically translated from Italian) The case study regards a boy 21 years old, quadriplegic from traumatic cervical spianl cord injury (***C5 level) due to a dive in low water. The traumatic event has been necessary 30 May “96, when the boy was 17 years old. After l” incident a extended necessity of assisted respiration has been had and has been necessary an participation of cervical stabilization. Alexander introduces moreover bladder and ***alvo neurological (intermittent ***cateterismo) and sexual impotence (is erection that ejaculation). Much bond introduces a cognitive level: at the moment of the incident it attended III the advanced one, currently has been promoted in V accounting, Course Programmers. The boy has been taken in load ***dalla our structure ***dal the 15-09-96 to the 20-05-97 in regimen of hospital admission, ***dal the 21-05-97 to the 15-02-98 in regimen of ***day hospital.Il assessment project and supply assistive devices is of retrospective type and regards is the adoption of ortheses and assistive devices for the personal mobility in the activity of the daily life, is the modifications of the room, in order to allow one better accessibility. Son of whom channelized parents, to the age of the incident lived with the father and the paternal grandmother, after the incident has gone to be with the mother, for which all the modifications to the room have been realized in the address of the mother. Moreover it has been carried out a ***multidisciplinary participation for its scholastic re-introduction. In all it makes yourself of the treatment has been of great importance the which addressed psychological support is to the patient who to the relatives who to the ***operator