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This discussion assignment provides a forum for you to reflect on the past week’s experiences in this course. Reflection is a hallmark of professional practice. The process of reflection promotes professional growth and development. Active and thoughtful reflection is a useful approach for processing new information and integrating into your professional role.Week 8 topicsDifferentiate congenital and traumatic neurologic disorders, and summarize mechanisms and causes of increased intracranial pressure and differentiate intracranial bleeding disorders, infectious neurologic disorders, and vascular neurologic disorders. Differentiate types of headache disorders, types of seizure disorders, degenerative neurologic disorders, types of dementia, and cancers of the nervous system. Summarize structural and functional alterations associated with various mental health disorders, schizophrenia and differentiate mood disorders and anxiety disorders. Apply understanding of neural system alterations in describing various common disorders such as headaches, dementia, depression, anxiety, spinal cord injuries, and multiple sclerosis.Explain and summarize congenital and traumatic musculoskeletal disorder, and summarize musculoskeletal injuries in child abuse. Differentiate disorders of the lower back, metabolic bone disorders, and inflammatory joint disorders, and chronic muscle disorders and bone and muscle neoplasms. Apply understanding of musculoskeletal system alterations in describing various common disorders such as traumatic injuries, metabolic bone disorders, inflammatory disorders, autoimmune disorders, chronic muscular disorders, and tumors.
