Name: Kayla Hilt
OT 586 Neuroscience Winter 2016-2017 Case #2 (TBI)
ROUGH DRAFT DUE: 10:10AM, Wednesday, January 25, 2017
This assignment is worth 15% of your final grade in this course.
Handwritten responses will not be accepted.
Complete your answers to these questions related to the case in a word document.
You may name your client if you choose to do so yet this is not a requirement for the assignment.
You may want more information to complete your answers, yet attempt to answer given what the information that you have been provided.
Utilize all readings, notes, presentations, and other resources we have shared in this course to support your evidence for answers to these questions.
There is no maximum or minimum length required for these answers, rather your responsibility is to provide sufficient information to validate your answer.
Your client is a 15 year old male who has sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). He sustained his injury in a motor vehicle accident (MVA) in which he was a restrained (wearing a seatbelt) front-seat passenger in a vehicle which was struck on the passenger side by another vehicle. He lives with his parents and is an only child in a single family house in the near western suburbs. He attended high school…show more content… Since I would allow him to return to school, I would educate him and the teacher about ways to return to the parasympathetic state. I would teach him deep breathing techniques, advise him to step out of class for a few minutes when he is feeling stressed, and recommend placing his seat in a quiet area of the classroom. If he were constantly stressed, then he may reach his allostatic load, which would result in increased cortisol levels. This could eventually shut down the cortex and lead to health outcomes such as diabetes, obesity, arthritis, depression, and GI
