Anatomy and Physiology

In this paper I will provide an overview of the pathologic process related to the muscular system. I will describe normal anatomy/physiology of the process involved. Finally, I will discuss the anatomy/physiology of the pathologic process of the condition.

The muscular system is an organ system that includes skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles. It allows movement of the body, maintains posture, and circulates blood throughout the body.

Pathophysiologic processes can cause neurologic disease. These are a few of the side effects that can be associated with the pathophysiologic process coma, epilepsy, weakness, movement disorders, ataxia and incoordination.

People suffering from the side effects of a stroke which is vascular are suffering from a pathologic process. In a clinical trial of an acute stroke, “modeling has been singularly unpredictable in ischemic cerebrovascular disease for a number of reasons related to the incompletely understood pathophysiology of ischemic stroke and to the characteristics of models prepared to mimic the clinical condition”. Strokes, often called brain attacks are being studied in animals to find the root cause and to witness the side effects. Tests so far have been inconclusive. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2012, from http://www.neurology.org/content/51/3_Suppl_3/S59.short

A stroke prevents oxygen exchange and glucose supply to neurons which in turn prevents energy from being produced. Within minutes, brain cells begin to die. There are two kinds of stroke. The more common kind, called ischemic stroke, is caused by a blood clot that blocks or plugs a blood vessel in the brain. The other kind, called hemorrhagic stroke, is caused by a blood vessel that breaks and bleeds into the brain. "Mini-strokes" or transient ischemic attacks occur when the blood supply to the brain is briefly interrupted. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2012, from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/stroke.html

“The two major mechanisms causing brain...