Drawing Muscles

Rules: The model must be all hand drawn (pen/pencil/crayon/etc). No photocopying or copy/paste allowed. Tracing existing drawings will not help you memorize complicated topics. Use this for test preparation and try to draw your model from what you remember. You can leave lots of blank spaces to add more details later if you forgot. Include enough written words to explain what is going on using clear understandable language.

This model is in test is in 3 parts due to the enormity of muscle work in heath care. The first part tests your ability to efficiently make a quick reference chart to the microscopic details of muscle contraction. The second part tests your ability to describe muscle movements with great technical accuracy. The third is a simple research project on a m

Figure 1: An efficient guide to muscle contraction.

Use a single sheet of paper.

Draw a diagram of muscle contraction from the release of acytylcholine from an axon terminal to myosin grabbing onto actin.

You saw various diagrams illustrating parts of this process. Most diagrams and even videos leave something out. Your challenge will be to combine all that information onto a single sheet of paper to use as a quick reference guide. Obviously, this wont be a snap–shot at a single moment of time, but show the progression of how ions would flow in or out through channels over time. You can use arrows to show the progression of an action potential, or the flow of molecules, or the direction the actin will travel.

See the rubric below if you need a checklist of what all to include.

Part 2: Yoga

Yoga is a series of simple stretching poses commonly used in meditation, rehabilitation, and geriatric fitness classes. If you are unfamiliar with yoga, here is a link to 15 easy poses for beginners.

Here is a much more extensive guide for those who want more options.

Assuming I start in anatomical position how would you tell me to get into 2 of these positions? I know this sounds easy, but you have to use technical terms for full credit. Instead of saying bend your knew, you would have to say use gastrocnemius to flex the tibia. Instead of saying rock onto the middle of your foot and point the soles outward, you would say evert the foot by contracting the fibularis muscle on the cuneiform born. In general each movement should have a direction, a bone, and a muscle.

If this sounds very odd, that is the point. You are proving you can handle the technical terminology. If it helps, pretend you are teaching yoga to an alien who has only ever read your anatomy book to learn to speak to you and is unfamiliar with any common language.

Yes. You can pick mountain pose, but I will be very picky about your wording.

Part 3: A disease and treatment plan

Pick a disease affecting muscles. If you like, you may reuse the disease from your discussion question, or pick a new one. The way you write will be slightly different from the discussion.

In two or three paragraphs, pretend you are explaining the causes and symptoms to a patient who has just been diagnosed with the disease. Give a brief explanation of what the common treatments are if there are any, or if there are not, why there are not. This should be about a page long in total and remember to be informative yet polite and respectful to the patient.

Part 4: Cite it.

Cite the sources. This is almost always a list of references at the end so they are easy to look up and verify afterwards. There are many different correct formats. Source citations include the sources title, author, year of publication, and where you can find it.

There need to be 3 sources. In this case, the sources will probably all be for part 3.