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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Locomotor disabilities

Locomotor disabilities

  • Movement disorders
  • Mobility handicap
  • Impairment of neuromusculoskeletal function

Nature

Locomotor disabilities refer to an individual's ability to execute activities associated with moving, both himself and objects, from place to place.

Broader

Human disability
Presentable

Narrower

Paraplegia
Presentable
Anomalous involuntary movement
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Physical independence handicap
Presentable
Personal physical disfigurement
Presentable

Aggravated by

Unhealthy physical posture
Presentable
Structural barriers for disabled persons
Presentable
Motor neurone diseases
Presentable
Malicious physical disablement
Presentable
Physically handicapped persons
Unpresentable
Paralysis
Unpresentable
Defects of cerebellum
Unpresentable
Absence of limb
Unpresentable
Disorders of joints and ligaments
Yet to rate
Brown-Sequard syndrome
Yet to rate

Related

Motor skills disorder
Presentable
Body disposition disabilities
Presentable
Personal care disabilities
Unpresentable

Strategy

Providing physical therapy
Unpresentable

Value

Mobility
Yet to rate
Impairment
Yet to rate
Handicapped
Yet to rate
Disorder
Yet to rate
Disability
Yet to rate

Reference

Shah, Nandkumar S and Donald, Alexander G: Movement Disorders

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Health care » Handicapped
  • Medicine » Locomotive, integumentary system
  • Medicine » Pathology
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    E6769
    DOCID
    11567690
    D7NID
    136711
    Last update
    Jan 31, 2021