What’s Got You Weak in the Knees? A Look at the Dangers of Leg Weakness
You may not realize how little conscious thought walking or moving takes until you are in a position where your lower body mobility is affected by a medical condition. Once this happens it can make the smallest tasks seem much more difficult. Since movement is at the core of everything you do throughout your day, difficulty in completing simple tasks can take a toll on both your physical and mental well-being. Lack of maneuverability can have serious consequences leading to feelings of isolation, depression, and/or anxiety. Recognizing symptoms, addressing them properly, and implementing the use of aids in your day to day life could help to minimize the effects and risks associated with lowered mobility.
What is Leg Weakness?
Leg weakness is an absence of muscular or physical strength in your legs accompanied by the feeling that additional effort is required to produce movement. If this deficiency is the result of pain, then when you make those lower body muscles work it will hurt.
Often times, when you are displaying a physical weakness which makes moving more difficult to achieve it can result in fatigue. Fatigue is a feeling of exhaustion or tiredness due to a lack of strength and/or energy.
Weakness and fatigue are both symptoms, and not considered diseases. They can be caused by many other health issues, and can only be properly examined when paired with other symptoms that are present. If you
“An applicant's handshake may be crucial at a job interview. But a personality test can tell a company what's behind that handshake” (Korn, 2012). When you think about a job interview you have gone on recently, do you think about what your strengths are? I can assure you that the people interviewing you are looking to see what you strengths are, whether it is in the form of asking you directly or in observing how you interact and answer the questions. I recently did a self-assessment strengths test by using the Strengths
to Sparks and Taylor’s (2011), helping weak and unsteady patients get out of bed and
Muscle fatigue occurs when the muscle system experiences a reduction in its ability to produce force and accomplish a desired movement. Muscle Fatigue is caused by the limitation of a nerves ability to generate a sustained signal or known as a neural fatigue as well as the reduced ability of a muscle fibre to contact (metabolic fatigue).
Caring for adults with impaired physical mobility is a risk fact for many people with acute and chronic disease. There are negative consequences to all body systems when immobile which leads to deconditioning and loss of functions. Nurses use interventions to help prevent these deconditioning and function
Reduced muscle strength in the leg, because the leg muscles will be less able to absorb the stress on the knee.
Balance, flexibility, strength, and single leg hopping all significantly limited the patient’s ability to ambulate, reciprocally negotiate stairs without handrails, and participate in recreational activities pain-free. As flexibility and balanced increased the patient started to make strides towards pain-free ambulation. The PNF rolling intervention became easier over time, and manual resistance was increased. PNF rolling is a low-level treatment, but still requires proper timing and stabilization to coordinate both extremities and the trunk to “reset” the body and prepare it for higher-level functional
There also may be a loss of balance and coordination resulting in an unsteady gait when attempting to ambulate.
A term that can be used professionally is called Overtraining Syndrome. There are many effects from overtraining, but the most effective are in the sentences to follow. You get a washed out feeling and lack of energy, there is a sudden drop in your performance level, and you also suffer from depression. All of these symptoms often make the person feel a compulsive need to exercise. According to sportsmedicine.about.com, “one of the effects of the syndrome is not only failing to gain muscle, but also losing it.” There are several ways that you can tell if you are overtraining; one way is to document your heart rate over time. Another way is to keep pace of your heartbeat throughout a workout and if it slows, you might be heading into overtraining
A persistently, distressing individual sense of physical, emotional and/or cognitive exhaustion not related to activity and inhibits usual functioning (Yeo & Cannaday, 2015).
Simple movements strengthen the muscles that protect the joints in the legs. These five types of activities you can every day to practice at home.
To some extent, yes I was surprised to discover some of the findings in my strengths profile. I was extremely surprised to find that curiosity was rated seventh on my list. I have always been aware that I am a slightly curious individual, however I did not realize that I was curious enough for it to be rated seventh on my profile. Also, love of learning was listed as twenty-second on my list, which I can somewhat understand. I do not often read books unless necessary for a particular course, but I do usually enjoy learning. I typically only like learning about particular topics that interest me that includes math and particular business courses (so far accounting has been extremely interesting for me). It was also a bit interesting to see humility
According to Dr. Spencer Nodalsky, who is an expert in supplements and nutrition, fatigue can sometimes a sign of other more complicated health problems like anemia, depression or thyroid issues not just the inadequacy of energy and motivation. Fatigue could also contribute to the reason for hormonal imbalance.
Lower leg breaks, metatarsal cracks, and Lisfranc cracks can sideline competitors and once in a while require surgery.
With the long-term goal of becoming a transformational leader, it is often useful to consider one's strengths and weak nesses across four dimensions. These include personal and professional accountability, career planning, personal journey disciplines and reflect practice reference behaviors and tenets. The intent of this analysis is to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses in each of these four areas. In addition, a discussion will be completed on how current leadership skill sets will be used for advocating change in my workplace. The conclusion of the paper will concentrate on one personal goal for leadership growth, including an implementation plan leading to its fulfillment.
The strengths and weaknesses of a committed actor can be paradoxical. For this area I chose to consult with an acting colleague of 17 years. I thought it was necessary to have an objective perspective to honestly describe what has been observed from someone that knows me, personally. The following paragraph from a close friend and veteran actor explains this quandary in her description of me.