Femur

Long Bones 2. Short Bones 3. Flat Bones 4. Irregular Bones 5. Sesamoid Bones Bone types (Classified by shape) Description Example(s) 1. Long Bones "Long bones" are longer than they are wide. They consist of a shaft and are generally curved. • Femur (leg bone) • Tibia (leg bone) • Fibula (leg bone) •…

nursing student during her practical placement. In order to adhere to the confidentiality policy (NMC, 2015) , the patent is named as Anne throughout this essay. The patient admitted in the orthopaedic ward due to fractured neck of femur. On admission all the neck of femur path way carried out . on the next day hemi arthoplasty done and the patient transferred to the ward. During the post operative period the multi disciplinary team includes the doctors, pharmacist ,physiotherapist ,…

attachment. A sporting example is heading a football because the skull protects the brain from having impacts. Long bone Long bones are mostly located in the appendicular skeleton and include bones in the lower limbs (the tibia, fibula, and femur) and (the humours, radius, ulna). Long bones are hard, dense bones…

intestine, and the femur may not initially seem connected. However, a closer look at these organs shows a deep, mutually beneficial relationship. The marrow of the femur generates the stem cells that mature into the blood cells eventually pumped throughout the body by the heart. The small intestine absorbs nutrients and transfers them to the bloodstream, to be carried throughout the body with each heartbeat. These nutrients and blood cells are ultimately carried back to the femur to nourish and…

sits behind the ACL attaching to the posterior intercondylar area of the tibia, anteriorly moving to the intercondylar fossa of the femur. This prevents the tibia to extend too far backwards and the femur slipping forwards. Conversely, the ACL crosses in front of the PCL. It connects to the anterior area of the tibia and rises posteriorly to the intercondylar of the femur. Consequently, this represses forward extension of the…

Defining the Anatomy of the Knee The knee is a hinge joint, made up by the junction of the femur and the tibia and the fibula. The knee is one of the most frequently injured joints in the human body and it is commonly injured during sporting activities (Meyer, 2005). The knee is made up of four distant ligaments that are prone to injury: anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), lateral collateral ligament (LCL), and medial collateral ligament (MCL). The anterior…

Lab 3: Stimulus strength vs. muscle force production Introduction: The goal of this lab is to determine the relationship between stimulus amplitude (strength) and the contractile properties (i.e. force) of the frog gastrocnemius muscle. Skeletal muscle is composed of bundles of muscle fibers called myofibers. These fibers are themselves composed of myofibrils, which are comprised of the ordered arrangement of actin and myosin. These proteins slide past each other in the presence of calcium…

It marked the spot in my notebook and gave it a locality number. As I was writing that down, I noticed another piece of bone a few yards away. This was a distal femur—the lower end of a thighbone—also very small. This was a split up the middle so that only one its condyles, or bony bumps that fitted into the shinbone to make a knee joint, was attached.” (Johanson, Edey pg. 155) In addition to Johanson’s analysis…

It possesses a ‘ball and socket’ joint function, this allows 360o movement and permits agility and flexibility for the femurs (Roberts, Reiss and Monger, 2000). During running, the body’s weight is transferred successively between each leg. Large muscles such as the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteus maximus, work together as flexor and extensor muscles in order to move the femurs accordingly (Lowrie and Goodger, 2009). The ATP created, engages muscles in the cross bridge cycle, this allows…

Tammy has no swelling or discoloration around her knee, and the X-ray shows no fractures in the hip or knee. The hip is not fractures, but the capital femoral epiphysis has been displaced. Her knee pain is a direct result of her injury. The femur is connected to the hip and the patella. If one area is affected or out of sorts, the other will be affected as in. This is an injury of the hip, but she experiences pain in her left knee. This type of injury often leads to something called referred…