Murderball: Personal Narrative Analysis

In the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework 3rd edition, a client factors are specific capacities, characteristics, or beliefs that reside within the person that influence performance in occupations. That further can be broken down into 5 different characteristics which make up client factors. The first is values; which are principles, standards and qualities that are considered worthwhile to each patient. Second is beliefs; which are cognitive contents held as true. Third is spirituality, which is being spiritual. Lastly, is body structure and functions which can be merged together to be clearly defined as “physiological function of body systems and anatomical parts of the body such as organs, limbs, and their components.” (W.H.O., 2001)
All of the different players on Team USA paraplegic rugby team seemed to have the same value all together, that just because they were paraplegic does not mean their value in life decreased in anyway. It was stated by Scott Hogsett, that finding a passion in paraplegic rugby truly gave his life meaning after having nothing to live for. A lot of the paraplegic’s needed some type of value in their life to truly know, for them, that their life was meaningful. Keith, a paraplegic who was seen throughout the movie in a rehabilitation center, participated in high-adrenaline activities, so for Keith paraplegic rugby was just another high intensity game that he could get into and find value in for his life. What really affected these players the most in their body functions were the neuroskeletal and movement-related functions. The two categories that were the most important for them are muscle function and movement function. Muscle functions are muscle tone, muscle power, and muscle endurance, which needs to be very strong in order to skillfully play paraplegic rugby at an olympic level. All three of these muscle skills need to be combined together to successfully travel any distance on a wheelchair and to also play a competitive sport. During the game they also tend to get thrown off their chair or tipped over a lot. The players need the strength in
While the movie Nebraska was mostly focused on person, occupation and context, the therapy that Woody needed was not due to his mental limitation. Woody’s age in collaboration with his Alzheimer's disease truly limited his mental capability every day. On the other hand in the movie Murderball, there was no evidence, nor were we told, of any mental disabilities that the players faced it was all physical. While Woody had problems like determining if a 1 million dollar voucher was fake that type of higher-level cognition was altered in anyway for the rugby players. The opposite can be said for the players, while they lacked gait skills, it was proven Woody had no problem, especially walking down a highway to get to another