Dwarfism

( Saner, 2020).  Challenges and Solutions for those with Dwarfism  Individuals with dwarfism face many challenges daily. The world is not made for little people; the world is made for 'average' size individuals. Some challenges that little people face are:  Reduced Muscle Tone  Delayed Motor Skill  Breathing Problems  Scoliosis  Bowed Legs  Limited Joint Flexibility  Arthritis  Lower Back Pain  Leg Numbness Frequent Ear Infections  Risk of Hearing Loss  Crowded Teeth (Gavin, 2015).  There is no cure for Dwarfism, but there are some solutions to help those with dwarfism. Some of these solutions, though, aren't always an option for some. Some solutions might be surgical treatments, hormone therapy, ongoing health care, or limb lengthening. Surgical treatments help correct problems in individuals with disproportionate dwarfism; which can include correcting the direction of bones, stabilizing and correcting the shape of a spine, increasing the size of openings in bones of the s

(Nickalo Designs, 2020).  Psychological Concepts  The influence of the psychosocial environment upon both the physical health and emotional well-being of infants and children has been known anecdotally since medieval times. It documented in the twentieth century (Green, 2020).  Psychosocial dwarfism (PSD) is where severe and dramatic abnormalities, physical, behavioral, and psychological, are caused in the child by a markedly disturbed parent-child relationship (Green, 2020). Psychosocial stresses mediated through the cerebral cortex appear to bring about intermittent and reversible alterations in hypothalamic function (Green, 2020). Green hypothesised that the production or section of growth hormone releasing factor and other hypothalamic factors inhibited and was responsible for the decreased growth hormone secretion by the pituitary and perhaps other hormonal abnormalities seen in psychosocial dwarfism (Green, 2020).  The noticeable dwarfism seen in psychosocial dwarfism is reversib