Jasmine's Anatomy and Physiology Blog

Bone Sonnet Bones of the lower limb are necessary to walk  Your femur has a greater trochanter  and you need your femur to be able to bend down and pick up a piece of chalk and you also need to use your plantar. Your femur is connected to your patella  Your patella is your knee cap  and you need your patella in order to be able to move like a gazella without your knee cap your legs would just flap. Next comes the tibia  and that is connected to another bone  called the fibula  and you need these bones in order to walk on your own. All the bones of the lower limb are essential to life and without them you would always be in strife.

Skeletal Career - Chiropractor The field of being a chir opractor is a skeletal career.  A chiropractor is a health care professional focused on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders, with an emphasis on treatment through  manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine . If you are a chiropractor you focus on healing and reducing pain in the joints and spine in order to reduce pain and improve movement and quality of life in patients. Chiropractic treatment is used in order to create spine mobility and ease the irritation and tension of the spinal nerve and other reflexes that are affected. Here are the steps to becoming a chiropractor. You need to get a pre-med background before you go to chiropractic school. The first step is to get a bachelor's degree in science and then afterward you should apply to chiropractic school. You need to be extremely focused when in chiropractic school because the courses are very rigorous and you need to understand eve...

Skeletal Disease - Osteosarcoma Osteosarcoma is a skeletal disease that affects the long bones in the knee, hip, or shoulder. Another name for osteosarcoma is osteogenic sarcoma. This disease happens to be more likely to occur in males under 30 than women and the cause of this disease is unknown. Some symptoms are pain, swelling, and inability to move. It is a bone cancer and is not very common. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1,000 new cases are diagnosed and about 450 of them are children and teens. About 10% of cases will occur in people over the age of 60. The prognosis for osteosarcoma patients varies depending on how far the tumor has spread and what stage it is in. Although there are no particular screening tests for osteosarcoma, most cases are found in early stages and doctors are allowed to intervene before it metastasizes to the other body parts. Through the use of an MRI, X-ray and CT scan, bone scan, and a biopsy, an osteosarcoma is introduced. Osteosar...

Tissue Disease - Systematic Lupus Erythematosus Systematic Lupus Erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that attacks the body's immune system even though the tissue is still helathy. Lupus can affect the skin joints, kidneys, brain, and any of the other organ/tissue in the body. The cause of lupus in unknown and it actually more common in women than it is in men. There is no cure for lupus at this moment, but people can recieve treatment through drugs to help control it. Some symptoms of lupus are painful/swollen joints (arthritis), fevers, extreme fatigue, rashes across the body and photosensitivity. But each person experiences these symptoms differently in intensity as well. When a person has lupus the body's immune system turns against itself and attacks the healthy tissue, because the body produces antibodies and lymphocytes that attack the body instead of creating ones that help fight off viruses and infections. It is essential that lupus is treated and monitored carefu...

Advanced Organelles - Lysosome A lysosome contains digestive enzymes necessary for breaking down materials within a cell. Lysosomes are advanced organelles that exist in animal cells. They are not in red blood cells and their function and form are very similar to a vacuole. The role of a lysosome is to clean up the "garbage" of the cell. So basically what a lysosome does is break down the celluar waste, digesting the waste inside of the cytoplasm and then dispose of the waste inside of the cell. While their role is to clean up the cell they also help to maintain cellular homeostasis, cell signaling, energy metabolism, and plasma membrane repair. Lysosomes also have different sizes, they can be big or small. Inside of a lysosome their contains about 50 different enzymes that help to hyrdrolyze proteins, DNA, RNA, polysachharides, and lipids. Lysosomes play a role in endocytsosis which is the uptake of extracellular material in vesicles formed from the plasma membrane. They a...

Tissue Disease - Eczema The medical term for eczema is atopic dermatitis. Eczema is a condition that makes your skin red and itchy. Usually, it can be seen in children but can happen to people of all ages. Eczema is chronic and people who have it experience periods where their eczema acts up. Eczema is chronic, meaning that it does not go away. Some symptoms of eczema are dry skin, itching (severe itching, depending on weather/climate change), hives over the areas affected, dry patches, raw and sensitive skin as well. From personal experience, I learned that it is best to avoid taking too hot of a shower when my eczema flares up because the hot water dries up my skin and causes me to become even itchier. My doctor prescribed be triamcinolone, which is a petroleum jelly that comes in a metal tube. It helps curb my itchiness and help hydrate my skin but the one flaw in this is that it contains steroids, which is the drug that helps curb the itchiness. I try not to use the triamcin...

In Aaron D. Ames' lecture, he talked about the future of robotics and enhancing human lives with prosthetics and robotics. Of course, he did not fail to mention the numerous mathematical theorems involved in building a robot and the importance of making sure that the prosthetics/robots fall in line with the math.  Aaron focused on being able to create walking robots that will help us become closer to the dream of robots being able to have the artificial intelligence to be able to help humans and become our companions. He discussed his projects with Caltech's Cassie and other robots he worked with at Georgia Tech. While Ames shared with his audience the successes of creating his robots he also showed us the failures too. He emphasized the fact that creating robots take time, commitment, dedication, and money; expressing the importance and gratification they get when they finally create a robot that works. He also talked about the fact robots in the lab function ve...