NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Reduced movement amplitude can cause handwriting to be smaller. Reduced movement amplitude can also cause a step to be smaller, so that if a patient trips over an obstacle, she might not recover because she does not take a large enough step to avoid falling.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bradykinesia means slowness of movement and speed (or progressive hesitations/halts) as movements are continued. It is one of the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD). You must have bradykinesia plus at least either tremor or rigidity for a Parkinson’s diagnosis to be considered.

Detailed explanation-3: -Akinesia is the central motor abnormality in PD that refers to a lack of spontaneous voluntary movement, slowness of movement (bradykinesia), and faulty execution of movement.