Lateral meniscus

POP! Your ACL just snaps in half. The pain is unbearable. It feels like your knee is just hanging because nothing is holding the back part of your knee together. You are scared to get the MRI results back because it is a huge setback. “You’ve torn your ACL.” Those are words an athlete never wants to hear. What is Your ACL? You may be wondering what your ACL is and what it does? Your ACL is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It is one of the four ligaments that stabilizes your knee so there is no excessive forward movement. The ACL also controls the twisting and rotation of your knee. So in other words, it is a pretty important part of your knee. How Do You Tear Your ACL? Sudden movement or change in direction when you are trying to plant your foot with a locked knee is when you are most vulnerable to tear your ACL (Wedro). Some common symptoms you should expect when you tear your ACL is a loud pop from the ligament stretching so far it tears. I know you probably don’t want to hear this, but following that will be excruciating pain. After all that follows a lot of swelling. To decrease the swelling, make sure to apply a ample amount of ice on your knee. A torn ACL can possibly be prevented by lifting weights to make your leg and hip muscles stronger. Stretching is just as important as building leg and hip muscles. The act of stretching loosens your muscles and tendons so you are able to move without as much restriction. Rehabilitation? The length of time that it…

Life holds a series of setbacks; every day we deal with problems that affect us on a personal level. In my four years of college, I have definitely had my fair share of setbacks through athletics and my living arrangements at Saint Peter’s University. My freshman year, I came from a slow, quiet suburban childhood into the fast and nonstop environment of Jersey City. The following year, I tried to take on more responsibility by renting a house near campus with my teammates, but I ended up stuck…

For this lab there were two debriefs, in these debriefs we, as a class, discussed the topic of surface tension, meniscus, and how they affected our experiment. The meniscus, also stated before, gave the students a measuring problem in the beginning, when filling up the graduated cylinder to 100 mL. In Lab Debrief Part One, we discussed this situation and later found out that the meniscus was a curve of the liquid and could be either convex or concave. An observation in the experiment was when…

“affects the nerve cells in the brain and in the spinal cord. When neurons reach the brain and spinal cord it spreads to the muscles in your body from your feet to your head usually making a patient in the late stage of ALS paralyzed.”- (ALS ASSOCIATION) When the patient is in the late stage and paralyzed it is usually around the time when the patients start to end their fight for their life. “ALS is 20% more common in men than women.” (alsa.org) This disease can be handed down by genetics it…

Paige Slopey Dr. Laurie Ward English II 4 November 2014 A Perspective of ALS A Perspective of ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a muscular disease that affects the upper and lower motor neurons. When the motor neurons die the ability to control muscle movements is no longer there. Before the age of 65, slightly more men than women develop ALS. This gender difference disappears after age 70. ALS is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig 's disease; Lou Gehrig…

Physical Therapist Interventions for a Patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Jonathan De Castro Concorde Career College Abstract Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), it is an analysis that no patients want to obtain. ALS is a gradual neurodegenerative disorder that results in damage of brain stem and spinal motor neurons and gives growth to painless weakness and muscle atrophy with few or no sensory symptoms. “Amyotrophic” stands for muscle atrophy, and “lateral…

media, campaigns are making more progress than ever before, however, is the publicity actually being used to exhibit a positive message, or is it simply being used to create one time fads? Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist, once said, “What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.” Campaigns, like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, have attempted “to use social media in a good way”, but sometimes, their efforts are deficient…

invite their relatives and friends to meet with them and hear what they feel or think about them. But other group of people believe that this event is a waste of time because the majority of their visitors will not tell the truth or because they think that the only opinion that should matter is their own opinion. In the book “Tuesday with Morrie” written by Mitch Albom, he narrates us when his Prof. Morrie decides to do a living Funeral. A living funeral is not always a wonderful idea because…

Physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia have become more acknowledged in the past few years. Many cases in Canada and around the world have brought people to conditionally accept assisted suicide. In his report on physician-assisted suicide, Buchman MD CCFP FCFP (2012) states that, “This past June the BC Supreme Court rendered a decision that Gloria Taylor, a women with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, has the constitutional right to assisted suicide” (p.1169). Buchman’s report centers…

forgetfulness, but remembers moments when they were young. CTE is caused when an individual suffers a head injury which causes the brain to release an increase of amyloid plaques that cause a chemical called Beta Secretase to be released. These chemicals intoxicate the brain and the blood, causing organs and nerves to die off. For this reason, people with CTE seem to slowly deteriorate with their body because the increase in toxins into the bloodstream poisons the blood causing the body to…