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Oh, I'm such a dork, but I figure you guys would like to hear about this too!
At school today we had a special guest in our anatomy and physiology class who works at Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center.
YES.
He came in and brought with him all his visuals and as a sat down scanning the tables of limbs (they looked so real-it looked like a legit butcher's SHOP!) but I didn't see what I was looking for, still I was so excited to learn about new innovative techniques that are used for people who have lost limbs. We learned about all the orgins and muscles and nerves involved with simple finger moments or plantar flexing one's foot.
Did you know if you have a below the elbow amputation they can make you hand with fingers that with open and close electrically, simply from getting impluses from your nerves because they are still there? Yes, it was very cool indeed.
AND THEN. ON THE TABLE. I SAW IT.
A HOOK.
SO, NATURALLY I WAS VERY DISTRACTED THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTION.
SOME INTERSTING THING ABOUT HOOKS. EVEN WITH ALL THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TODAY MANY PEOPLE REALLY DO PREFER HOOKS FOR THEIR DAY TO DAY NEEDS BECAUSE THEY ARE SIMPLE AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE PICKING UP. IN FACT, THE PROSTESIS(?) SAID THAT MANY PEOPLE GET VERY SKILLED WITH HOOKS AND HAVE CONTESTS WHERE THE PICK UP A SINGLE ASH FROM AN ASH TRAY.
So, I wondered what Gen would think of that?
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Date: 3/6/10 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/6/10 05:31 am (UTC)Science is cool. C:
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Date: 3/6/10 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 3/6/10 09:49 am (UTC)It was before I was in sounis so I totally forgot about it until now.
Gen would pwn that contest.
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Date: 3/6/10 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/6/10 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/6/10 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/6/10 09:14 pm (UTC)I was so distracted the entire time by the hook on the table and I just wanted to go up there and check out myself, but the guy tried it on and showed us how it worked and everything, which was super cool!!
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Date: 3/6/10 09:16 pm (UTC)OH, it so is =)
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Date: 3/6/10 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/6/10 09:27 pm (UTC)What's next I wonder?
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Date: 3/6/10 09:30 pm (UTC)OMG
I SAW THAT ON AN EPISODE OF HOUSE
I'M GOING TO HAVE TO FIND IT FOR YOU...
HOUSE LIKE HELPS THIS WAR VET WHO LOST A HAND AND STILL FEELS THE PAIN OF HIS HAND BEING CLENCHING SO HE USES THIS MIRROR TO MAKE HIS EXSISTING HAND FLEX AND THEN IT RELIEVES THE PAIN IN HIS PHANTOM HAND.
Oh, he soo would. =)
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Date: 3/6/10 09:31 pm (UTC)I only wish you guys could be there to freak out with me, like I looked around the class room and realized I couldn't point it out to anyone who would actually GET IT <>
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Date: 3/6/10 09:57 pm (UTC)BTW I find Gen's name confusing in that I write a lot of gen stories, so my Yuletide one was a gen Gen fic.
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Date: 3/6/10 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/6/10 11:02 pm (UTC)ah time.