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Essay on Medical Treatment and Protection of the Mentally and Physically Disabled
A "physical impairment" is a disorder, condition, disfigurement, or anatomical loss that affects at least one body system. A "mental impairment" is "any mental or psychological disorder, such as mental retardation, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities." The federal regulations, which interpret the ADA's provisions include the following as "physical or mental impairments": various contagious and noncontagious diseases and conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech, and hearing impairments; cerebral palsy; epilepsy; multiple sclerosis; cancer; heart disease; HIV disease; drug addiction; and alcoholism.
It is important to distinguish between conditions that are impairments and physical, psychological, environmental, cultural, and economic characteristics that are not impairments. For example, physical characteristics such as left-handedness, being overweight or short, muscle tone, and even advanced age are not impairments. Moreover, pregnancy and predispositions to illness or disease are specifically excluded as impairments. Nor is character traits such as quick temper or poor judgment included as impairments, unless such traits are symptoms of a mental or psychological disorder.
Medical treatment is an interdisciplinary approach to help the Mentally and Physically Disabled to become comfortable and protected. The clinician (nurse practitioner, physician, or nurse) works with a psychologist and other appropriate staff or family members in sessions that are held at regular intervals. Several approaches are used to facilitate these practice sessions, including positive reinforcement, relaxation, distraction, and role playing.
Medical treatment worked for mentally and physically disabled to help them tolerate physical examinations. These treatment help the client feel comfortable in the examination room. Then the components of the physical examination step-by-step, beginning with the least intrusive procedures, such as listening to the heart and lung, or examining the eyes or throat.The client has the option to terminate any portion of the examination, but the session is always ended with a procedure that the person responds to positively, such as a heart and lung exam......
