Lower Back Pain Prevention Card Set – take it to go!

This card set is intended to provide the user with quick and easy mobilization, stretching and muscle relaxation exercises. The exercises are easy to understand and can be completed at the working place. I focused on the lower back when choosing exercises because many people experience acute or chronic back …

Tennis athletes bone/muscle structure changing compared to non-athletes

Topic: Tennis athletes bone/muscle structure changing relative to non-tennis athletes Objective: Relate the interaction of muscles and the skeletal system Written Statement: Tennis athletes are consistently causing forces that impact the bones along with different lower body muscle groups. This is especially for the knees and the muscles that are …

Myasthenia Gravis

My STEAM project is on the neuromuscular autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis. This relates to the course objective, “Describe how a muscle contraction is induced”. The first image is of a neuromuscular junction of a healthy individual, while the second is of an individual with myasthenia gravis. Typical NMJ An action …