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Middle/ Thoracic Spine The thoracic spine joins the cervical spine and extends down past the bottom of the shoulder blades, where it connects with the lumbar spine. The thoracic spine made up of twelve vertebrae, labelled T1-T12 is built for stability, holding the body upright and providing protection for the vital organs in the chest. The most common cause of thoracic back pain is due to muscular irritation or other soft tissue problems, caused by lack of strength, poor posture, prolonged…

Deep in the forests of rural Oregon, there lives an aged conman by the name of Stanley Pines. Locals know Stan by his persona Mr. Mystery, a scamming, charming tour guide of faux supernatural phenomena and the owner of the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap. By finding out the hard way –a.k.a. unknowingly buying poorly made bobbleheads or taxidermied fish and rabbits stapled together- one will find that Stan Pines is a very cheap man, the model cheapskate. Whether driven by greed or well-hidden love…

In Kill ‘Em! Crush ‘Em! Eat ‘Em Raw! by John McMurtry, the author uses harsh diction to convey pathos, revealing the brutality and violence of football, and conveys the dangerous nature of football through his use of personal experiences as a form of logos. Through the use of these devices, the author asserts that football perpetuates violence and brutality in our society. By utilizing pathos through the use of harsh diction, the author is able to evoke an emotional response from the reader and…

You can mix and match what day you do the workouts so long as you work out 4 days per week. (I.E. Monday’s workout of Back and Cardio can be performed Tuesday of the following week) …. Just be sure to hit all the exercises and workouts I have listed to the point for the next 4 weeks. THIS COMPLETES THE 12 WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM- As Diana gets more and more accustomed to the program the workouts get harder and more intense to help her achieve her goals. NUTRITION Along with the exercising, diet…

musculoskeletal structure of the body. The musculoskeletal structure consists of the bones, joints, muscles, nerves, ligaments and tendons. Arthroscopy is a popular type of surgery used to treat orthopedic disorders. This surgery can be used for cartilage surgery and reconstruction…

Orthopedics comes from two Greek words, ortho, meaning straight and pais, conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgery corrects problems that arise in the skeleton and its attachments, the ligaments and tendons. It may also deal with some problems of the nervous system, such as those that arise from injury of the spine. These problems can occur at birth, through injury, or as the result of aging. They may be acute, as in injury, or chronic, as in many aging-related…

Cervical disc protrusion, is a result of the cervical disc displacement or bulging and can be due to a trauma related to a sport, work, motor vehicle accident or aging and can lead to some form of disability and morbidity. This condition can be associated to cervical radiculopathy, disc herniation, osteophytes and spondylolisthesis (Bartels, 2016). In the United Stated the motor vehicle accidents are the main cause of spine and spinal cord injuries (Stein et al., 2011). The incidence of sport…

When I was in the 7th grade I decide to do track. They taught us what we were going to do. Like what are we going to do at the meets and practice. During practice we had to run for about 10 minutes. Then after we ran the girls and the boys got in a big circle and all did about 10 different stretches together for about 10 seconds. After that we did something called splits which is when everyone split up and did there own thing like the long distance runners had to run for a long time around the…

The larynx is a tube made up of cartilage that connects the nasopharynx to the trachea. The larynx also contains the vocal cords and is a part of the respiratory and skeletal systems. Just caudal to the larynx is the thyroid gland. The thyroid has an appearance that is similar to a smooth…

Chapter 5 Dispute: Humans and Sharks both have four gill arches as embryos, but the germ layers and arches develop into unrelated structure in each organism My Dispute Statement: Both sharks and humans develop gill arches when enveloped in the embryo, with the arches creating very similar structures and functions in both. In humans during conception, 4 swellings appear on the throat area. These swellings called arches develop to create many of the structures and functions inside the head.…