Drawing Femur

Figure 1: Show the broken femur.

q Draw a patient in anatomical position. Label where the femur is broken, and what region of the body it is in.

q Label 3 more areas of the body nearby and say what direction they are from the site of the injury. Many of you need more practice with body terms and directions. This should be an easy review of the first chapter.

q Describe the break using all applicable terms, such as simple, displaced, longitudinal, etc..

Figure 2: Stages of healing

q Draw some cartoons of the bone healing over time.

q This should cover the period from the initial hematoma to the bone remodeling.

q Label features of the bone, like the periosteum or if the bone is compact or spongy, and label cell types and features of the extracellular matrix.

q You will not be judged on quality of the art, but on accuracy and showing how much you know.

Figure 3: What should the legs look like? Os coxa, femur, tibia, and fibula

q Draw the bones of the right and left leg. Draw the os coxa, femur, tibia, and fibula.

q These drawings dont have to be very high quality.

q Label the bones and bone markings that can help you determine right from left on each bone.

q You dont need to draw every marking in every text book, but draw at least 3 per bone that can be enough information to reliable tell whether its a right or a left bone.

Figure 4: Knee issues

q If the patient is putting all their weight on the healthy leg, there might be some joint problems develop while they cant use their broken leg.

q Draw a knee joint, and label what issues could occur from an overstressed knee joint.

q This is a great place to cite sources.

Figure 5: Physical therapy

q What kind of physical therapy exercise would be recommended here.

q Explain how to do those exercises using the technical names for motions, like extension or abduction.

q This is a great place to cite sources.

Part 6: Prove it.

q Dont forget to say how we know this. Use at least 3 reliable sources, and give explanations for how this is known. Explanations can be summaries of experiments, case studies of patients deficient or over-abundant in the hormone, or visual observations. One source can be your textbook.

q Saying that someone said so or that you read it is not an explanation. Explanations are logical proof of independently verifiable evidence that can be verified in other experiments or by future observations of healing.

q There need to be 3 sources.

Part 7: Cite it.

q 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.

q There need to be 3 sources