Femur

Hello, my name is Emi Iwao and I have been working in the physical therapy field for 5 years. During high school I took a sports medicine class which interested me in the body and how it works. I knew right away that I wanted my career to deal with sports medicine and began researching. I applied to many colleges but finally decided on Central Michigan University because of the high reviews on their physical therapy program. At Central, I got my four year bachelor’s degree and then went on…

The first step in the process is that a 3-D image of the outer surface of the femur is made. The bone was laser scanned at the physical anthropology computer lab using a special 3-D laser scanning machine. Resulting data was a highly accurate representation of the superficial topographic features of the bone the initial 3-D data set contained eighty thousand facets. The second step was generating a 3-D model of the femur. The model was made to be manipulated digitally. The 3-D digital data was…

Derrickson, 2009). There are two types of bone tissues; compact and spongy. Compact bone tissue is hard and dense; it provides strength, support and protection. It forms the outer layer of all bones and most of the shaft of long bones such as the femur. Compact bone looks like honeycomb when examined microscopically and is found to consist of Haversian systems (Gould, 2005). In comparison, spongy bone has a spongy appearance to the naked eye. When examined under a microscope the Haversian canals…

Consider the arm. The biceps and the triceps are on two sides of the upper arm bone (humerus) and attach to the fore arm bones (radius and ulna) from the inside and outside of the elbow joint. Contraction of the bicep causes your arm to fold. Contraction of the triceps causes your arm to extend , your biceps muscle is attached to your shoulder blade at one end and to your ulna in your forearm at the other end. When the biceps contracts, it shortens and pulls the ulna toward the shoulder blade…

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Tissue in your body is used to help your body move to bend over and pick up a box that is on the floor. Muscular tissue is used to move muscles and bones and connective tissue connects the muscles/tendons to the bones to help with movement. Nervous tissue is also used. It’s needed to tell you to pick up the box and tell your muscles and bones to move the way you do to bend over to pick the box up. First, the rectus abdominus pulls forward to bend over, the latissimus dorsi and gluteus maximus…

markings and provide examples of in which bones and locations those markings are found. Condyle- it is a large rounded prominence fitting into a fossa. This type of bone marking is a process that forms joints forming i.e. the medial condyle of the femur (Mid Lands Tech, 2016). Crest- it is slightly risen with protruded ridges. This type of bone marking is a process to attach connective tissues i.e. the iliac crest of the ilium that makes up the hip (Mid Lands Tech, 2016). Epicondyle- it…

Evolution means gradual change over time. In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote a book called On The Origin of Species, where he first stated that the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits (Than 1). Organisms change to help them adapt to the environment around them, increasing their chances of survival. Natural selection means that the organisms that adapt better survive longer and produce more offspring. The offspring carry on…

wrong and having to recover from such a traumatic procedure? About a month prior to this moment, after a few too many months already, we had discovered that I had a slipped capital femoral epiphysis. That basically means the ball on the top of my femur had slipped backwards making it difficult for me to walk even one step on my left foot. I had very little mobility and could barely turn my foot inwards or out. The doctor's mission was to pin…

performed by having the patient lay in a supine position with the hip flexed to 30 degrees. The examiner keeps the tibia in internal rotation with a valgus force on the knee while slowly flexed. A positive test is indicated when the tibia reduces on the femur during 30 to 40 degrees of passive range of motion. This study attempts to compare tibial acceleration before and…