Morbo di Parkinson: informazione sugli ausili
Record number: 307
Last update: December 2010
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2010
Type of document: Thesis
Author: Calabretta P
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia", Università Cattolica e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a, a, 2009-2010
Year of publication: 2010
Abstract:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The disease of ***Parkinson is a disturbance of the central nervous system mainly characterized them from degeneration of neurons situated in one deep zone of the called brain black substance. These nervous cells produce a neurotransmitter, the ***dopamina, a chemical substance that transmits messages to neurons in other zones of the brain and is in charge of the activation of a circuit that controls the movement. The ***dopamina reduction determines the insorgence of tremor, muscular rigidity, bradykinesia, disturbance of the sailing point, disturbs of the word and the writing. The strategies put in action ***dal the occupational therapist can allow to the patients of being the most possible self-sufficient people through use it of the just assistive device, trying to adapt the environment in which they live to progressing of the disease. To the various activities of the daily life they will be places side by side to you, therefore, one series of assistive devices opportunely adapted in order to render possible the patient most independent. Such assistive devices include instruments for the personal treatment, the mobility, the feeding and the communication.
(text automatically translated from Italian) The disease of ***Parkinson is a disturbance of the central nervous system mainly characterized them from degeneration of neurons situated in one deep zone of the called brain black substance. These nervous cells produce a neurotransmitter, the ***dopamina, a chemical substance that transmits messages to neurons in other zones of the brain and is in charge of the activation of a circuit that controls the movement. The ***dopamina reduction determines the insorgence of tremor, muscular rigidity, bradykinesia, disturbance of the sailing point, disturbs of the word and the writing. The strategies put in action ***dal the occupational therapist can allow to the patients of being the most possible self-sufficient people through use it of the just assistive device, trying to adapt the environment in which they live to progressing of the disease. To the various activities of the daily life they will be places side by side to you, therefore, one series of assistive devices opportunely adapted in order to render possible the patient most independent. Such assistive devices include instruments for the personal treatment, the mobility, the feeding and the communication.