Musculo-skeletal Injuries

Choose a location: shoulder, knee, elbow, hip or ankle.  Choose an injury: torn ligament (be specific), dislocation, or fracture.

Now the work begins:

• What is the impact of the injury on function?  What normal movement(s) is(are) impaired?
• What bones/muscles are involved? (Be specific.)
• How is the injury caused?  What action was required for the injury to occur?
• What is done immediately to treat it?
• What physical therapy is required?  How long before normal functionality is attained?

When a shoulder is dislocated it can no longer produce movement, the joint isn't stabilized, and it is more difficult to  maintain posture. The bones involved are the scapula and the humerus. When this happens the Humerus is no longer in the Glenoid Fossa of the scapula. Some ways to cause this could be a fall, or the arm was pulled on too hard. To treat it the doctors usually give the patients pain killers and then lift the arm so it abducts and then medially to pop it back in place. It is usually very easy but quite painful. The patient is then recommended to limit its use and wear it in a sling for a shot period of time. Usually no physical Therapy is required.  

relocating a shoulder

If the problem is much worse, sometimes more extreme measures are taken. To learn about this type of shoulder injury go to : http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dislocated-shoulder/DS00597/DSECTION=symptoms.

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Write-Away Friday

1. What tasks have you completed recently?

I have about 8 pecan trees in my back yard. Saturday morning in the chill air, the tree shakers came and shook all the trees and left piles of branches, leaves, and pecan nuts. Throughout the day my brother, mom, dad, and I sorted though these piles to get the prize possession ( Pecan nuts) to take to the shelling place in time to get them back as a present for my extended relatives. I think we picked up 200 pounds of the nuts. This was about 3 bag fulls. and I mean big sacks full to the top of pecans.  

  
2. What have you learned recently? 

Recently I have learned how muscles contract. So far I am still a little bit confused about this but, as my group and I do the claymation things are slowly but surely becoming clearer. The funny thing is as I am moving around I think about my muscles contracting and which ones do what. I sometimes when I am bored sit there raising my eyebrows, thinking about the frontalis. As Taylor would say "Anatomy Problems". Lol. Some other things that I have learned is the basics of the gas laws. I think my favorite thing is cover your P with DRT. I just think that that is the funniest thing. FYI this is an equation to find molar mass. I have learned a lot more but that is probably my favorite thing.
3. What are you planning on doing next?

Next I plan to get through the week with Finals, E.O.C's and the Musical beauty and the Beast Starting. I can not wait for Christmas Break. Hallelujah!!!! Ok well I got to go prep  a little more for the E.O.C tomorrow so bye:). 

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Write-Away Friday: Thanks Giving

This past week  I have thought a lot about Thanksgiving. If you look at the word it is literally split into two words, Thanks and Giving. The first part I would like to talk about is something I heard from my Aunt Sharon. She told me something that she heard from the Preacher or Minister which was “What if you woke up tomorrow and the only thing that you had was the things you were thankful for?” This made me think about the things I have. I have so much and I don’t even take anytime to appreciate them. I don’t thank my Heavenly Father for the things that he has given me and I think mainly about the things that I do want. So the first part is noticing the things in your life that are good things to have and having an attitude of gratitude for them. The second part is Giving. My sister has been serving a mission for my church in Cape Verde. She sees people who don’t have much but are always willing to give. In this weeks letter she wrote: “Well, this family is darn poor, but they ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS want to feed us. Every night, Patricia tells us the “special” of the night. Well, after we took Bruna home after our appointments, Patricia handed us a container FULL of food (rice and fish meal). WHAT THE DUMB. The people here are just so humble and great. I love it. Also, I am gonna get nice and Gordo here.” For some reason through the week this stuck with me. I have seen people around me and even sometimes I find myself money grubbing. Why is it that when we have so much are so ungrateful and unwilling to share there are people with nothing sharing all that they have? i don’t know why I felt like writing about this but it is something I want to work on so that I can be more grateful and happy about the things I do have. And I wanted to share a little bit of the things I have been up to this past week. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go to Cloud croft with my family. We got Christmas trees. And I don’t mean tree I mean Trees. We got FIVE trees. One for my house, one for Heidi’s house, one for Rhett’s house, one for Megan’s house, and one for my Grandmother’s house. It took sometime but we were able to find some and have an epic snowball fight!!!  So that has been my Thanksgiving and below is a picture of my Nephew Jarom’s hand and my Niece Lexia and me at Thanksgiving Breakfast.