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Sean_Collins -> Re: Multilevel Perspective on Energy Flow (October 24, 2005 12:59:00 AM)
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A classic example is the patient that is discharged after an admission with "dehydration", of course this patient had several other medical conditions. Dehydration is mererly the "leverage" effect that propels them into instability and thus requires admission. They are discharged without consideration to the cumulative impact of a day's work (exerting energy in the environment) on the ability to sustain that days work. Over time they start to fatigue, do less work which means drinking and/or eating less, this reduction in glucose and H2O leads to muscle weakness due to interupting the bioenergetic process, which leads to less work and so on and so on, until finally they are back in the hospital again being diagnosed with dehydration - except maybe they have the benefit of also having a UTI, pneumonia, a bed sore (all consequences of less energy being translated into work in the environment).
Do people have other examples? Does the energy cycle here provide some degree of commonality between them that can be used by PT's and OT's to start to address these "frequent flyers?"
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