User:Gcmercado88

school
KIN 412 also known as Movement Anatomy and Kinesiology is the study of the anatomy of movement within musculoskeletal system, muscle function, tissue mechanics. KIN 412 is a 3 hour lecture course that is also accompanied with a 2 hour activity. In order to be enrolled into the class, prerequisites such as ZOO 235/235L and KIN 304/L must be completed before KIN 412/A. The course is taught by the amazing professor named Dr. King Kong

hobbies
Their many hobbies that gcmercado88 has, but by far some of his most favorite hobbies is working on his parents backyard garden, working out, reading news articles, and constructing anything out of wood, and or metal.

music
The music that gcmercado88 likes is hip hop, jazz, merengue, and rock. Gcmercado88 favorite musicians are Frank Sinatra and Jack Johnson.

sports
Gcmercado88 has been famous in many sports such as baseball, soccer, track, football, basketball, and boxing. Gcmercado88 talent has always been his level of energy that is nonstop along with his amazing speed. Gcmercado88 has been able to over the years learn how to implement a deadly combination of speed and endurance within any sport, making Gcmercado88 a dangerous athlete to compete against. In baseball, Gcmercado88 has been known to have the most in home runs in a single game when Gcmercado88 set the new record to 4 in home runs in a single game. In track, Gcmercado88 has won Diamond Bar’s 5k running for reading city run when he came in first place. In soccer, Gcmercado88 was known as a talented player to watch as much expectations was expected from him. The first two seasons Gcmercado88 didn’t disappoint as many cheered for his name as he would aggressively steel the ball and run with blazing speed down the field in order to score numerous goals. It wasn’t until the last season, Gcmercado88 expectations became disappointment for many when the goalie of Gcmercado88 team road kill team got injured, Gcmercado88 came into sub for the goalie, the team and coaches believed that the talented and versatile Gcmercado88 could play goalie for five minutes left within the game as team road kill would be known as champions of the division. Unfortunately, Gcmercado88 disappointed many when the opposing team scored two goals to tie and then one more goal to win the game within the last five minutes. After that season, Gcmercado88 no longer could bare the shame for letting down the team and realized that his soccer days were over. In football, Gcmercado88 speed and stamina became an issue for many as Gcmercado88 was a running back that averaged 4.5 touchdowns per game. After one season of football, Gcmercado88 mother worried too much about him getting injured, for the sake of his mom Gcmercado88 retired from football in the biggest surprise of the year. Gcmercado88 decided to take his talent to basketball, in basketball Gcmercado88 was always consistent in defense as he would average 11 steals per game and at rare and inconsistent occasions Gcmercado88 would score 25 to 35 points per game. Gcmercado88 didn’t like the attention that he was getting and feared that he would change into an egotistic person, from that point on Gcmercado88 decided to try boxing. In boxing, Gcmercado88 shows great promise as he never gets tired and gets stronger every round as his open gets weaker. Gcmercado88 overwhelms his opponents with his nonstop fast punching combinations that eventually knock out his opponent. Recently for the last year, Gcmercado88 has injured his shoulder in most likely perhaps has a degenerative rotator cuff injury. Although injured, Gcmercado88 promises to heal quickly as possible so he can get back into ring and excite many with style of fighting.

Treatment
=Rehabilitation= The treatment for an individual that has Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy can be treated by attending a rehabilitation program. Depending on how severe CTE is for the patient, the rehabilitation will be based upon the patient's strengths and capacities on how rehabilitation services should be modified over time to adapt to the patient's changing needs. In order to begin the rehab for each patient and to further understand their needs, the patient must see a neuropsychologist. The neuropsychologist will than assess the individual's cognitive, language, behavioral, motor, and executive functions which will than allow better understanding on how to treat the patient. After being aware of knowing how to treat the patient, the CTE patient would then be working with physical therapists, occupational therapist, and speech therapist. The physical therapist will assess and improve the patients balance, posture, strength, quality of movement, coordination of movement, increased sensation of sensory-motor activities. These activities that are provided by the physical therapist will help the patient by maximizing the patient's strength and functional independence. The CTE patient will also receive its help from an occupation therapist. The occupational therapist will improve the patient’s ability to perform activities of daily living, such as cooking, grocery shopping, and readiness for returning to the patient’s job. The CTE patient will also need to see a speech therapist that will be able to improve and return the patient’s ability to communicate as the speech therapist improves the subtle changes in the patient's thought processes and speech patterns.

=Medication= Along with the therapy that is provided to the CTE patient, medication will also be in use. The medication that a Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy individual will use is benzodiazepines. Benzodiazepines is a drug that is used to control post-traumatic epilepsy as it improves the effects of neurotransmitter gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) which causes sleep-inducing, anti-anxiety, muscle spasms, amnesic action, and seizures. Another drug that is used for someone that is suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is norepinephrine. Norepinephrine is used to maintain cerebral perfusion and control a high level of blood pressure.