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Wellness - ✔✔active process of self- care through being aware of and making choices toward
a healthy life.
Active Range of Motion - ✔✔Demonstration of full, independent movement of each joint.
Aerobic Exercise - ✔✔Physical activity that requires increased work by the heart and lungs
for oxygen metabolism to produce energy
Anaerobic Exercise - ✔✔Physical activity that does not require oxygen metabolism
Atrophy - ✔✔wasting away of muscles; a decrease in muscle mass
Contracture - ✔✔Permanent fixation of a joint
Dangling - ✔✔Sitting up on the side of the bed prior to standing
Disuse Osteoporosis - ✔✔loss of bone mass due to lack of activity
Equilibrium - ✔✔A state of Balance
Flaccidity - ✔✔lack of muscle tone
Footdrop - ✔✔a common joint contracture that results in permanent plantar flexion
,Friction - ✔✔Rubbing
Gait - ✔✔The patient's manner of walking
Hemiparesis - ✔✔weakness on one side of the body
Hemiplegia - ✔✔paralysis of one side of the body
Hypertonicity - ✔✔an increase in muscle tone
Hypotonicity - ✔✔a decrease in muscle tone
Ischemia - ✔✔reduced blood flow
Isometric exercise - ✔✔physical activity that requires tension and relaxation of muscles
without joint movement
Isotonic Exercise - ✔✔active movement with constant muscle contraction
Logrolling - ✔✔Moving the whole body as a unit in straight alignment
Necrosis - ✔✔death of cells, tissues, or organs
Paraplegia - ✔✔lower body paralysis
,Passive Range of Motion (PROM) - ✔✔passive movement to each joint of the body of
another person to the point of resistance while evaluating the persons comfort level
Pathologic bone fractures - ✔✔spontaneous breaks without trauma
Pressure Injuries - ✔✔Damage to the skin caused by pressure in an area that may include
soft tissue damage and is usually found over bony prominences.
Proprioception - ✔✔an awarenesses of posture and movement
Quadriplegia - ✔✔inability to move all four extremities
Range of motion (ROM) - ✔✔degrees of movement
Spasticity - ✔✔abnormally increased muscle tone
Trapeze - ✔✔A triangular device suspended above the bed to assist with movement and
transfers.
Absorption - ✔✔movement of smaller elements through the walls of the digestive tract and
into the blood.
The passage of a drug from the administration site into the bloodstream
Amino acids - ✔✔the building blocks of proteins that must be consumed from food every
day
Anabolism - ✔✔the use of energy to change simple materials into complex body substances
and tissues
, Anorexia - ✔✔loss of appetite by patients experiencing illness or side affects from allergies,
medications, or treatments, such as chemotherapy, that suppresses the desire to eat
Anorexia nervosa - ✔✔A very serious disorder in which the person exhibits life-threatening
practices as a result of an altered mental state.
There is a distortion of the body image with the intense fear of gaining weight or being viewed
as "fat" despite the fact that the individual's weight is less than healthy or normal.
Anthropometry - ✔✔The study of measurements of the human body
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) - ✔✔the minimum amount of energy required to maintain body
functions at rest while awake
Bingeing - ✔✔the intake of excessive amounts of food, as many as 2000 to 3000 calories at
one time
Body Mass index (BMI) - ✔✔measurement of a person's body fat based on a formula that
uses height and weight
Bulimia nervosa - ✔✔an eating disorder that involves an obsession with bingeing followed by
purging. In an effort not to gain weight from the excessive amount of food eaten, the person
may use self-induced vomiting or excessive exercising.
Cachexia - ✔✔Physical wasting
Carbohydrates - ✔✔Chemical substances compiled from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
molecules
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