Chapter 7 Questions
2. What are the clinical signs of cancer, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome?
• Cancer: unusual bleeding or discharge, lump or thickening under the skin, change in size and color of a wart or mole, sores that do not heal, change in bowel or bladder habits, chronic hoarseness or nagging cough and chronic indigestion or difficulty swallowing
• Chronic Pain: cycle of pain, decreased movement, inactivity, weight gain, poor sleep, fatigue, headaches, morning stiffness, low back pain
• Short term memory or concentration impairment, sore throat, tender cervical or axillary lymph nodes, headaches or a new type, pattern or severity, unrefreshing sleep, muscle pain, multipoint pain without swelling or redness,
4. What therapeutic recreation strategies are used with pain and fatigue?
• Purpose is to interrupt pain behavior, improve functional abilities, reduce medication use, prevent relapse, and decrease depression and anxiety
• Help clients cope effectively, acquire wellness behaviors, improve self-efficacy, find satisfaction and socialization in leisure behaviors, achieve relaxation
• Promote stress management, time management and physical activity
6. Describe how TRS creates accessible experiences for people with sensory impairments.
• Facilitate leisure skill development and resource awareness
• Training in spatial awareness and balance (for blind)
• Orientation and mobility training
• Help develop sports skills
• Control environmental distractions
• Help develop communication skills
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