Saturday, 30 November 2013
Lagi pasal tanaman
Berbudi kepada tanah
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Berkebun
Bermain lumpur sawah
Akhirnya.. Yang ditunggu telah tiba
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Dia datangggggg..
Ubi Kayu Goreng
Monday, 25 November 2013
Yang ditunggu Telah Tiba: Kebun Bahagia Bersama
Sesi Pertama Fisioterapi
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Menunggu saudara dari Bali
Takziah buat Papa Hero
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Projek baru
Friday, 22 November 2013
Aku dan Foot Drop
Aku start mengalami foot drop pada November 2011. aku masih ingat tarikh dan peristiwa itu ialah kerana aku baru berpindah ke department baru dan aku sedang mengendalikan projek dengan menggunakan Geran dari UNESCO bagi menjalankan bengkel pengajaran dan pembelajaran berkaitan Literasi Maklumat. ianya melibatkan profesion dalam bidang kerja aku dari seluruh negara hadir. dan aku masih ingat sahabat ku yang seorang itu yang juga hadir ke bengkel anjuran aku memapah dan berpapasan dengan aku berjalan beriringan ketika aku tak boleh berjalan dengan laju ketika itu.
Dua hari sebelum
Semasa di rumah mama aku diserang sakit belakang yang kronik. terlalu sakit hingga aku tidak dapat bangun. setelah ke klinik dan mendapatkan suntikan penahan sakit baru aku berdaya bangun dan balik ke KL bagi menyambung tugasan mengendalikan bengkel. tapi apa yang aku sedari selepas itu, aku tak dapat berjalan dengan baik hingga berpimpin tangan dengan anak buah aku dari bangunan opis ke bangunan sebelah.
Aku kini penghidap Foot Drop
Aku masih tak tahu apa yang aku alami ketika itu. Tiada kesedaran mengenai foot drop. Aku ingat ianya disebabkan sakit tulang belakang aku. tu jer. rupa rupanya itulah saatnya aku mengalami foot drop di mana aku tidak berupaya mengangkat hujung kaki aku hingga menyebabkan ianya terseret. lemah selemah lemahnya. paling sedih aku tak boleh memakai kasut sarung ku. langsung tak rasa/ pakai pakai tanggal. pakai tanggal. Hingga aku memakai sandal Crocs milik staff aku yang telah bersara bewarna pink untuk ke bangunan sebelah. malunya Tuhan jer yang tahu. tapi oleh kerana tugas dan amanah aku gagahkan diri.
Kini....
-Kaki kiri memang lemah dan kebas. kerap kali rasa sejuk sangat macam ais jika dibandingkan dengan kaki kanan yang sihat.
-Hujung jari jari kaki akan rasa kebas dan semut semut. kadangkala sakit mencucuk.
-Ketika berjalan aku merasakan kaki terseret ke tanah semasa berjalan.
-Aku juga mengalami kesakitan di pergelangan kaki, lemah dan kebas. Ini akan menjadikan peluang untuk jatuh dan tersandung menjadi lebih tinggi.
- Aku kerap tersandung dan terjatuh dengan kerap. Sejak aku mengalami foot drop aku telah jatuh lebih dari empat kali. di pejabat juga mereka pernah menyaksikan aku terjatuh dek kerana tersandung wayar scanner. memang kaki ini tak akan merasa jika tersangkut dengan apa barang sekali pun. amat bahaya.
- jika di rumah mama kerap tersangkut getah paip yang berselirat di kawasan taman mama.
- Kerap tersandung tapi tak jatuh. terutama jika dah berjalan jauh dan kaki menjadi letih. semakin lemahlah ia.
- Jadi, bagi mengelakkan kaki kami tersandung, kami akan mengangkat lutut setinggi tinginya ketika berjalan bagi mengangkat hujung kaki kami sekali.
- Kasut: aku sekarang hanya boleh memakai kasut yang bersarung dan mempunyai tali atau strap di atasnya. Kalau tanpa tali atau strap ianya akan tanggal tanpa aku sedari.
- Nak pakai kasut pun amat sukar. hingga sekarang. masih sukar.
- Selipar: hanya ada satu jenis yang aku boleh pakai. sandal asadi yang amat ringan tetapi: mempunyai tebing di sekeliling sandalnya. jika rata, aku tak boleh pakai. kerana ianya akan tertanggal tanpa aku sedari.
- Kuku kaki kiri rosak.
- Kulit mengelupas dan berpenyakit gatal gatal jika dibandingkan dengan kaki kanan yang sihat.
- Menggunakan tongkat bagi mengimbangi dan menguatkan serta mengukuhkan kaki ini.
- Menyorong troli ketika berjalan di pasaraya amat menyenangkan aku. ianya juga amat membantu aku berjalan agak jauh.
foot Drop-Therapy
“Foot drop” bukanlah satu penyakit. tapi lebih kepada simtom masalah saraf, otot atau anatomi. Foot Drop ialah bilamana pesakit mengalami masalah mengangkat naik bahagian hadapan kaki ketika berjalan bagi mengelakkan ianya tersandung.
Tujuan utama of foot drop therapy ialah untuk membantu pesakit mendapat sedikit kekuatan di bahagian kaki dan dapat berjalan dengan selamat. Rawatan akan berbeza bergantung kepada penyebab terjadinya foot drop anda.
In many cases, physical therapy and exercise can help with this muscle weakness or paralysis. Physical therapists help the patient retrain and strengthen the muscles that lead to foot drop.
Here are some of the commonly used exercises for foot drop therapy:
Ball Lift
The patient sits on a chair, holding the sides for support, with a tennis ball on the ground. He or she then tries to grab and lift the ball with the toes (bare feet) and bring it up as high as possible. Repeat ten times. Take a half-minute break and repeat three sets (with breaks in-between).
Leg Flex
Sitting on the floor with legs extended in front, the patient lifts the affected leg a few inches off the ground and flexes the toes so that they face the abdomen, holding for five seconds. He or she then flexes the leg in the opposite direction so that the toes point away from the body. Hold position for five seconds. Repeat ten times.
Foot Stretch
The patient sits on the floor with legs out, looping a towel over the top half of the affected foot. He or she then pulls the towel with both ends toward the body, stretching out the toes for six seconds, taking a half-minute break, and repeating six times.
Cycling
The cycling motion is quite effective, whether done on a stationary bike, real bicycle, or lying on the floor and making the cycling motion in the air with the legs.
Physical therapists will emphasize to patients how critical it is for them to do their exercises, even on days when they don’t have therapy. People can often be functional and independent with this symptom, particularly with the help of a physical therapist.
Kecederaan Tulang Belakang
Cedera tulang belakang jejas pundi kencing
Oleh Hafizah Iszahanid
KEBANYAKAN kes kecederaan tulang belakang yang membabitkan saraf tunjang boleh menyebabkan kecacatan kekal dan lumpuh. Masalah ini tidak boleh dipulihkan sepenuhnya.
Justeru, rawatan lebih tertumpu kepada mengelakkan kerosakan sekunder pada saraf tunjang dan tulang di sekelilingnya yang boleh menyebabkan kecacatan atau lumpuh yang lebih teruk. Ada kes yang menyebabkan kematian terutama kerana komplikasi berkaitan sistem respiratori.
Pakar Perunding Ortopedik dan Pembedahan Trauma, Pusat Perubatan Kelana Jaya, Dr Khaizatul Ezam Abu Bakar, berkata kecederaan saraf tunjang tulang belakang atau ‘Spinal Cord Injury’ selalunya adalah trauma pada tulang belakang yang menyebabkan kecederaan pada saraf tunjang sama ada kecederaan primer (kerosakan saraf kekal sewaktu trauma) atau kecederaan sekunder (kerosakan lanjut pada saraf tunjang selepas trauma).
Dr Ezam berkata, antara kedua-duanya, kecederaan sekunder boleh dielakkan atau dikurangkan kesannya dengan rawatan tertentu.
“Saraf tunjang (spinal cord) adalah organ saraf atau neural yang bermula daripada pangkal otak dan berakhir pada tulang vertebra lumbar pertama dan kedua (L1/L2). Ia terletak di dalam saluran saraf tunjang (spinal canal) setiap vertebra yang bermula daripada vertebra servikal pertama.
“Saraf tunjang ini amat sensitif kepada sebarang kecederaan. Justeru, sebarang kecederaan boleh menyebabkan kerosakan yang kekal,” katanya.
Dr Ezam berkata, secara umum kecederaan saraf tunjang dibahagikan kepada kecederaan penuh (complete transaction) atau tidak sepenuhnya (incomplete cord injury).
Kecederaan saraf tunjang sepenuhnya bermaksud kehilangan sepenuh kawalan saraf dan deria rasa (sensasi) dan fungsi otot dan organ pada bahagian yang cedera serta ke bawah tahap kecederaan terbabit.
Kecederaan saraf tunjang yang tidak sepenuhnya pula bermaksud saraf tunjang pada bahagian yang tercedera masih berfungsi. Contohnya, bagi kecederaan saraf tunjang tidak sepenuhnya ia boleh menyebabkan kelumpuhan otot tertentu tetapi deria rasa masih normal.
Selain itu, katanya, wujud risiko kedua-dua tangan dan kaki lumpuh jika kecederaan terjadi pada bahagian saraf tunjang servikal (di tengkok).
“Jika kecederaan saraf tunjang itu terjadi pada bahagian tulang belakang bawah (lumbar dan thorako-lumbar) ia boleh menyebabkan kedua-dua kaki lumpuh. Kawalan bagi pundi kencing dan anus juga akan mengalami kerosakan,” katanya.
Pada peringkat global, kecederaan tulang belakang memang masalah yang kerap berlaku. Di Amerika contohnya, 10,000 kes kecederaan tulang belakang dilaporkan setiap tahun. Dengan 200,000 orang di Amerika hari ini hidup dengan tangan, kaki atau kedua-duanya lumpuh.
Kecederaan tulang belakang selalunya disebabkan kemalangan jalan raya, kecederaan ketika bersukan, dibelasah dan jatuh dari tempat tinggi.
Rawatan
* Rawatan awal ditumpukan untuk menstabilkan keadaan pesakit yang tercedera ini daripada mengalami kecederaan sekunder termasuk rawatan bantuan pernafasan jika diperlukan, pengawalan perdarahan dan rawatan kecederaan lain yang dialami pesakit trauma.
* Peringkat rawatan susulan membabitkan pembedahan menstabilkan tulang belakang (jika perlu), rawatan fisioterapi dan rehabilitasi adalah amat penting sekali.
“Rawatan menstabilkan tulang belakang biasanya membabitkan pembedahan dan penggunaan implan bagi menstabilkan semula tulang belakang yang rosak. Bagaimanapun, pembedahan ini tidak bermaksud fungsi otot yang dikawal oleh saraf tunjang pada bahagian itu akan pulih seperti sedia kala,” katanya.
Tujuan pembedahan untuk menstabilkan tulang belakang bagi memudahkan proses rehabilitasi dan fisioterapi, mengurangkan atau mengelakkan kesan kecederaan sekunder kepada saraf tunjang pada bahagian tulang belakang yang berkenaan dan mengurangkan risiko deformasi lanjutan pada tulang belakang pada masa hadapan.
Selain itu, katanya sokongan keluarga sangat penting untuk membantu pesakit kembali pulih. Pesakit lumpuh tidak boleh bergerak sendiri. Jika tidak dibawa untuk menjalani sesi terapi dan rehabilitasi dan mendapat sokongan moral, motivasinya terjejas dan pesakit akan mudah mengalami kemurungan,” katanya.
INFO: Kesan kecederaan saraf tunjang
* Pergerakan dan kawalan otot - ketidakupayaan mengawal otot.
* Hilang sensasi - ketidakupayaan mengawal rasa panas, sejuk dan sakit. Malah, tidak boleh mengawal suhu badan.
* Kawalan sistem organ - ketidakupayaan mengawal usus/pundi kencing selain kehilangan fungsi seksual dan tidak subur.
Unit Fisioterapi, Klinik Kesihatan Sungai Besar
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Besi masuk tulang belakang?????
Skru pedicle dimasukkan ke dalam tulang melalui lumbar pedicle ke dalam anterior vertebral.
Kata artikle ini sebanyak 70% pesakit yang menjalankan spinal fusion dengan instrumen dimasukkan ke dalam tulang akan mengalami skru yang tidak kena letak pada tempatnya. walaupun hanya tersalah dalam satu atau dua milimeter dan hanya 5-10% dari skru yang tersalah tersebut membimbangkan.
Walau bagaimanapun, kejadian sebenar new neurologic defisit dari skru tidak kena pada tempatnya adalah lebih rendah, dianggarkan kurang daripada 2 per 1000 skru dalam satu kajian baru-baru ini.
Walau bagaimanapun, ini masih membimbangkan, kerana adalah sukar untuk mengesan skru yang tidak kena pada tempatnya semasa pembedahan sedang dijalankan.
Penempatan skru pedicle ke dalam tulang boleh diperiksa oleh: pemeriksaan langsung dan rabaan dengan tangan, fluoroskopi, ujian elektrik, navigasi berkomputer atau sistem Pediguard.
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Tengok gambar kat atas tu rasa ngeri plakkk. Patutlah Miss Azlin suh aku jaga baik2 tulang blakang dalam tempoh 3-4 bulan pertama ni. Dalam masa pembedahan dijalankan juga boleh jadi skru salah letak. Apatah lagi setelah pembedahan selesai. Jangan bongkok juga salah satu cara menjaga skru tersebut.
Gambar kat bawah lebih jelas bentuknya.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Fisioterapi
Jalan jalan cari makan
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Ortopedik, HKL: Sesi Q & A pada 14.11.2013
Monday, 18 November 2013
Are Librarians Totally Obsolete?
Sumber: http://www.collegeonline.org/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed.html
16 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important
Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries. As libraries' relevance comes into question, librarians face an existential crisis at a time when students need them the most. Despite their perceived obsolescence in the digital age, both libraries and librarians are irreplaceable for many reasons. Nearly twenty reasons, in fact. We've listed them here:
1. Not Everything is Available on the Internet: The amazing amount of useful information on the web has, for some, engendered the false assumption everything can be found online. It's simply not true.
Google Books recognizes this. That's why they take on the monolith task of digitizing millions of books from the world's largest libraries. But even if Google does successfully digitize the sum of human knowledge, it is unlikely that the sum of contemporary authors and publishers will not allow their works to be freely accessible over the internet. It is already prohibited by law to make copyrighted books fully accessible through Google Book search.
2. Digital Libraries are not the Internet: A fundamental understanding of what the internet is and isn't can help clearly define the role of a library, and why libraries are still extremely important. Online library collections, however, are different. They typically include materials that have been published via rigorous editorial processes and are riddled with quantitative anaysis, instead of opinion.Types of materials include books, journals, documents, newspapers, magazines and reports which are digitized, stored and indexed through a limited-access database.
While one might use the internet or a search engine to find these databases, deeper access to them requires registration. You are still online, but you are no longer on the internet. You are in a library.
3. The Internet isn't Free: Numerous academic research papers, journals, and other important materials are virtually inaccessible to someone seeking to pull them off the web for free. Rather, access is restricted to expensive subscription accounts, which are typically paid for by college libraries. Visiting a college library in person or logging in to the library through your school account, is therefore the only way to affordably access necessary archived resources.
4. The Internet Compliments Libraries, but Doesn't Replace Them: The internet is clearly a great resource to finding information, but it's not a replacement for a library. There are clear advantages of libraries over the internet for research, however the benefits of the internet, includes "sampling public opinion", gathering "quick facts" and pooling a wide range of ideas. Overall, the point is this: libraries are completely different than the web. In this light, to talk about one replacing the other begins to seem absurd.
5. School Libraries and Librarians Improve Student Test Scores: A 2005 study of the Illinois School Libraries shows that students who frequently visit well-stocked and well-staffed school libraries end up with higher ACT scores and perform better on reading and writing exams. Interestingly, the study points out that access digital technology plays a strong role in test results, noting that "high schools with computers that connect to library catalogs and databases average 6.2 percent improvement on ACT scores".
6. Libraries Aren't Just Books: Technology is integrating itself into the library system, not bulldozing it. Pushing this trend to its logical extreme (although it's likely not to happen), we could eventually see libraries' entire stacks relegated to databases, and have books only accessible digitally. So where does that leave librarians? Are they being overtaken by technology, the timeless enemy of labor?
Technology is integrating itself into the library system, not bulldozing it. Pushing this trend to its logical extreme (although it's likely not go this far), we could eventually see libraries' entire stacks relegated to databases, and only be able to access books digitally.
7. Mobile Devices are not the End of Books or Libraries: Predictions of the "end of the book" are a predictable response to digitization and other technologies, and the crystal ball of some in the pro-paper crowd seems to also reveal a concomitant crumbling of civilization. One of the latest dark threats to paper is e-books downloadable to mobile devices.
But e-books are not an all-consuming transition for readers. Radio lives on despite TV, film is still in high demand despite video, people still talk on the telephone despite email. People who like paper books will continue to read paper books even if mobile downloads prompt the majority of publishers to release e-books instead of paper. After all, an immense backlog of printed books will still be accessible to readers. The presence of the digital library will continue to be extremely important role for college students in their research, whether it's paper or electronically based.
8. Library Attendance isn't Falling, it's Just More Virtual: With approximately 50,000 visitors a year, attendance at the American History Archives at Wisconsin Historical Society has dropped 40% since 1987. This statistic, when set alone, may prove sufficient for anybody casually predicting the Collapse of the Library. But it is only half the story. The archives have also been digitized and placed online. Every year the library receives 85,000 unique online visitors. The number of schools offering online degrees is constantly on the rise as well. Many of these schools are improving their virtual libraries by the day.
9. Physical Libraries are Adapting to Cultural Change: Anyone subscribing to the theories of 20th Century thinker Marshal McLuhan might say that along with changed life patterns brought on by electronic technology, knowledge that was once encased in books and compartmentalized by subject area is now being liberally disseminated in an explosion of democracy, rendering obsolete the austerity of the lonely, echoing corridors of the Library. Interestingly McLuhan, who died in 1980, once even said: "the future of the book is the blurb".
Indeed, this cultural change predates widespread use of the internet. For decades society has been seeking a more holistic understanding of the world, and increased access to information. The search for new methods of organizing educational structures (including libraries) has long been active. And while libraries might not be on many peoples' "top ten cutting edge list", they have been adapting.
Washington State University director of libraries Virginia Steel, for example, is a proponent of maximizing the social and interactive nature of physical library space. Group study, art exhibits, food and coffee talking, not whispering; this is the new library. It's not obsolete, it's just changing.
10. Eliminating Libraries would Cut Short an Important Process of Cultural Evolution: The library that we are most familiar with today a public or academic institution that lends out books for free is a product of the democratization of knowledge. In the old days, books weren't always so affordable, and private libraries, or book clubs, were a privilege of the rich. This started changing during the 1800's, with more public libraries popping up as a result of government initiatives.
Libraries began blossoming under the watch of President Franklin Roosevelt, in part as a tool to differentiate the United States from book-burning Nazis. This increased interest in building a more perfect, liberal society culminated in 1956 with the Library Services Act, which introduced federal funding for the first time.Today there are tens of thousands public libraries in the United States.
The notion that libraries are a thing of the past and that humankind has sprouted wings and flown into a new era of self-guided. Unfortunately, it's this same notion that could lead to the notion of libraries as stuffy and out-of-date. In reality, the quality of the web depends on guidance from the library model. While moderators do have brush to clear in the new and savage cyber-scape, librarians have trail blazed significant parts of the journey.
11. Wisdom of Crowds is Untrustworthy, Because of the Tipping Point: The high visibility of certain viewpoints, analysis and even facts found online through social networking sites and wikis is engineered ideally to be the result of objective group consensus. Google's algorithm also hinges on this collective principle: rather than an in-house "expert" arbitrarily deciding what resource is the most authoritative, let the web decide. Sites with higher link popularity tend to rank higher in the search engines. The algorithm is based on the principle that group consensus reveals a better, more accurate analysis of reality than a single expert ever could. Writer James Surowiecki calls this phenomenon "the wisdom of crowds."
In a vacuum, crowds probably are very wise. But all too often we see the caveat to James Surowiecki's crowd wisdom in Malcom Gladwell's "tipping point", which, in this context, explains that groups are easily influenced by their vanguard those who are the first to do something and who automatically have extra influence, even if what they are doing is not necessarily the best idea.
The highly social nature of the web therefore makes it highly susceptible to, for example, sensationalized, low-quality information with the sole merit of being popular. Libraries, in contrast, provide quality control in the form of a stopgap. Only information that is carefully vetted is allowed in. Libraries are likely to stay separate from the internet, even if they can be found online. Therefore, it is extremely important that libraries remain alive and well, as a counterpoint to the fragile populism of the web.
12. Librarians are the Irreplaceable Counterparts to Web Moderators: Individuals who voluntarily devote their time to moderating online forums and wikis are playing a similar role to librarians who oversee the stacks and those who visit the stacks, minus the Master's degree in library sciences. The chief difference between librarians and moderators is that while the former guides users through a collection of highly authoritative, published works, the moderator is responsible for taking the helm as consensus is created. While the roles are distinct, each is evolving along with the fast paced growth of the internet and the evolving nature of libraries. Both moderators and librarians will have a lot to learn from each other, so it is important that they both stick around.
13. Unlike Moderators, Librarians must Straddle the Line between Libraries and the Internet: Admittedly, libraries are no longer both the beginning and ending point of all scholarly research. The internet is effectively pulling students away from the stacks and revealing a wealth of information, especially to one who is equipped with the tools to find it. Indeed, the dream of cutting out the middleman is possible to attain. But at what price?
Media literacy, although an extremely important asset for scholars and researchers, is far from universal. Who is going to teach media literacy? Many argue that librarians are the best fit to educate people about the web. After all, web moderators are concerned primarily with the environment which they oversee and less so with teaching web skills to strangers. Teachers and professors are busy with their subjects and specializations. Librarians, therefore, must be the ones who cross over into the internet to make information more easily accessible. Instead of eliminating the need for librarians, technology is reinforcing their validity.
14. Library Collections Employ a Well-formulated Citation System: Books and journals found in libraries will have been published under rigorous guidelines of citation and accuracy and are thereby allowed into libraries' collections. These standards are simply not imposed on websites.They can show up in search results whether or not they provide citation. With enough research, the accuracy of web resources oftencan be determined. But it's very time consuming. Libraries make research much more efficient.
15. Libraries can Preserve the Book Experience: Consuming 900 pages on the intellectual history of Russia is an experience unique to the book. In general, the book provides a focused, yet comprehensive study that summarizes years of research by an author or team of authors who have devoted their academic to a particular subject area.
But, even when the internet does provide actual content, the information is often snack-sized or the overall experience cursory a sort of quick-reference browsing. Knowledge can be found, but the experience of delving into a book for hundreds of pages just doesn't happen online. The preservation of stacks, therefore, will help preserve access to this approach to learning and the more traditional form of scholarship can continue alongside the new.
16. Libraries are Helpful for News Archives: Libraries continue to subscribe to and stock a vast list of newspapers, academic journals, and trade publications, and archive the back issues. This effort may seem humble alongside the lengthy lists of online news aggregators and instantaneous access to articles published within the minute.
This news cataloging can provide a number of advantages. For starters, many publications continue to exist offline. For someone seeking a specific article by a specific journalist, a library could yield better results even if the publication had to be tracked down through inter-library loan.
Libraries often provide freely accessible issues of major periodicals that would otherwise require online subscription, like many sections of The New York Times. In addition, archives often disappear offline, or become increasingly expensive online. This can leave libraries with the only accessible copies.
Society is not ready to abandon the library, and it probably won't ever be. Libraries can adapt to social and technological changes, but they can't be replaced. While libraries are distinct from the internet, librarians are the most suited professionals to guide scholars and citizens toward a better understanding of how to find valuable information online. Indeed, a lot of information is online. But a lot is still on paper. Instead of regarding libraries as obsolete, state and federal governments should increase funding for improved staffing and technology. Rather than lope blindly through the digital age, guided only by the corporate interests of web economics, society should foster a culture of guides and guideposts. Today, more than ever, libraries and librarians are extremely important for the preservation and improvement of our culture.
Budak bushukkkk
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Sekolah Menengah Sains Kuala Selangor (KUSES)
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Info pasal penyakit aku
- The Vertebral End-Plates
- The Annulus Fibrosus
- The Nucleus Pulposus