My medium or visual is an acrylic painting of the hip joint, a synovial joint. I choose the hip rather than the knee because of the ball and socket type joint. The head of the femur articulates with the cup-shaped acetabulum. The joint cavity is enclosed by a fibrous capsule …
My STEAM Project is on Breast Cancer. I painted the anatomy of the breasts and included the location of the tumor, as show above, which is formed by cancer in the cells. Breast cancer can be found in both women and men, although it is most common in women in …
For my STEAM project I will be discussing the bones and muscles of the knees. I will be going into depth of how they work together to help us run and walk, what happens to them when they are injured (i.e. meniscus tears and other sports injuries), and the healing …
For our STEAM project, I chose to use the objective of “relate the interaction of muscles and the skeletal system.” The facial muscles are different than most of our other skeletal muscles, because they insert into the skin and therefore create our facial expressions by moving the skin, rather than …
My project is a representation of corticosteroid induced osteoporosis. The overall object of this project is to go over how the stages of bones development and repair can be disrupted using corticosteroids. My diagram shows the bone markings of two different types of bones. One is a healthy bone before …
This is my cross-section model of the phases of wound healing sculpted out of playdough.
I chose to look into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for my project. In the earlier stages of DMD, a child’s calve muscles may appear larger than average, giving the muscle a healthier look. However, in reality, the fibers are being broken down. They can not keep up with the healing processes …
For my STEAM project, I discussed the effects of traumatic brain injuries as this expands on objective of the nervous system. I displayed how the brain injury occurs and the effects on the brain activity. Since I love soccer and millions of traumatic injuries occur from this sport, I portrayed …
My STEAM project is on the corneal disease, keratoconus. My project shows three diagrams of the disease progression on an eye’s cornea in a cross stitch medium. The top one shows an eye in a normal, healthy state with various parts of the eye stated. The bottom left one shows …
I did my STEAM project on how pain processing differs in fibromyalgia patients when compared to neurotypical patients. I used the sketchbook app on my computer to design and implement all aspects of the project. As shown above, there aren’t many major differences. The most important difference in pain processing …