Wellness Day Reflection

My Google Presentation link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nA77gFS9R_cytVUAa0o9x0WVBw3blZlSEpjf1pP1Kxs/edit?usp=sharing


I chose the topic of massages because when I was little, I found massage amazing and I was interested in it. When I realized that I had an opportunity to learn more about it I suggested massage as our topic to my project partner. In the future, I would like to study something related to medicine but more in the way of massages or holistic health or maybe physical therapy. I think the benefits of working with massage and healing would be very rewarding.


One of the most amazing things that I learned while preparing this presentation was that there are many different types of massage. All types of massage have similar benefits, related to relaxation and whole body health. The last thing that I found interesting is all the different techniques are applied depending on the type of injuries in the case of sports massage.

During my life, I have heard a lot of people telling me that massage is good for your health and now that I have learned more about the subject of Anatomy & Physiology, I realized that it also helps in wellness and holistic health. Massage does this by decreasing the stress related with insomnia. Another benefit is that massage relaxes the entire body and helps athletes recover from sports injuries. Massage can also help with digestive disorders and reduces anxiety. I found this very interesting.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would grade myself with an 8.5 because I worked a lot on this project and also I found good information about it. But if I would have the opportunity to repeat this project, I would add more practical information and I would make it more interactive by getting the audience to participate in more sample massages.

Becoming a massage therapist  takes professional training and there are many programs in the area. The basic certificate takes 500 hours from an approved school. There is a test that massage therapists must pass called The Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) and the Massage & Bodywork Licensing Examination (MBLEx). These tests are regulated by the state of California. 

So in a few years if I'm still interested I would like to came back to the United States of America to study in an approved school and take this test. The more skills, degrees and certificates, the better change I have of obtaining a good job abroad my home country.

Unit 4 Reflexion

This unit was about the integumentary system. Also, it´s about the structure of the skin which is divided into the epidermis,the shallow layer, and the dermis, the deep layer, and how these layers are affected after a burn; about cancer, with the different varieties and how it grows. Also in this unit, we learned about why we get sick and what is happening inside us and the resistances of our body. Also, I learned that when I am with different groups people I work differently.

The concepts of this unit that I thought were the most difficult were the different types of glands of the body because I always mixed up the different characteristics with the different names.

I learned a lot of new staff about the mechanism of our body, why we have temperature, why burns hurt, and also why skin tans when we sunbath.

From the debate I learned that sometimes in your life you need to work with people who have different ideas than you, and a lot of times you will need to agree with them because your livelihood depends on it (you have your keep your job), and also that sometimes you will work with people who you may disagree with. Finally, I leaned how to study better, like being with a friend because you help each other.

Heart Dissection Lab

1. The pericardium is the outer most layer of the heart, it´s purpose is hold the heart and prevent that it broken when all the pressure of the blood goes inside the heart. It consists of an outer fibrous layer and a inner double layer of serous membrane.

2. The arteries looked larger than the veins. The arteries are more muscular and have more elasticity than the veins, and the veins have valves to prevent the back flow of blood. 

3. The auricle is an extra each to hold the blood. The function of the auricle is to increase the capacity of the atrium and the volume of blood it can contain.

4. The ventricle is bigger and thicker than the auricle because the ventricle pump out blood from the heart. The atria receive blood from the veins so they are thinner.

5. a.Exit from the coronary sinus; empties into the right atrium (smaller side) 

b. Exit from the inferior vena cava; on the flap on the right posterior side
c. Tricuspid valve; white ring between right atrium and ventricle and has three  visible flaps

6. Picture of tricuspid valve, chordate tendon, papillary muscle

        

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7. The "anchoring" of the heart valves by the chordate tendon and papillary muscles is important because they serve as wires and help connect the cusps. 

8. We can see the bicuspid valve that looks as opaque pouch and is connected to the chordate tendinae and has two flaps.

9. The function of the semi-lunar valve is to make sure that there is no back flow between the atrium and the ventricle.

10. a.The blood is not able to be pushed to the heart so it would cause swelling in the ankles and feet.

b. Different parts of the body would be oxygen-deprived and the blood would be unable to delivered to every part of the body.

11. The bicuspid valve looks like a pouch that intertwines with the chordate tendinae. The chordate tendinae are attached to the papillary muscles and look like stringy fibers tissue.

             

                                               

12. The left side has a thicker myocardium surrounding it. The right side receive blood from the rest of the body and the left side with the lungs.

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Heart Chalk Walk

The blood when passes by the heart enter by the superior and inferior vena cava, going into the right atrium, passing by the tricuspid valve and in the right ventricle is pushed up until the pulmonary arteries, and this one send the blood to the lamb where the blood will be oxygenated. Then the blood return by the pulmonary veins, going into the left atrium and then passes by the mitral or bicuspid valve, finally goes to the aorta that distributed the blood by the rest of the body, to the legs and arms by the descending aorta.

Unit 2: Reflection : Health

For me Health is the vital balance between Nutrition, Sleep, Stress, Exercise and Social life; if one of the above irregular all the body is unbalanced.

I'm healthy in some facts like exercise, I'm used to do a lot of exercise since I was little so is part of my usually routine.Inside the school I think that there is people healthy and other ones who have an unhealthy life. Maybe for promote a healthier life they can Tell all the students that is so important to sleep 9 hours for give time to your brain for keep the information.

I had learn a lot of specific things like that is super important to have a healthy nutrition, to sleep a lot of hours, the different types of hormones that work in our baby and what they do in each place of the body.

I don't finish to understand why we wake up when we have a nightmare.

In the next unit I will ask more questions about all my questions and I will try to understand all the content.

The day when I learn in class how important is have a social life I realize that it is true, when you spend time with people you are happier so your life is funniest so I decided to stay less time watching TV or staying with the smartphone and talk with my grandparents more time, play with my host brother and use my time to be outside home.

Nutrition Analysis

During the week of September 17th to September 21st I had been writing all the nutrition facts of my normal diet during school.

Analyzing the food that I eat every day I realized that the diet that currently carry is not right for my proportions and physical conditions as caloric intake should be more than twice the amount I usually, so my metabolism will work better.

It seem to me that I had wrote all this information wrongly because analyzing the dates I am suppose to have a bad diet. I need to eat more of all of the nutrition facts in general.
But the most prominent ones that I must improve drastically are Vitamin A and Potassium, follow by fiber and calories. 
For increase the number of Vitamin A I have to eat more eggs, tubers and also fruits like papaya, apricots or mango.
The food that is recommended for the Potassium are potatoes, avocados and spinaches.
Corn, apples, pears and broccoli are good for have for fiber in your diet.

As I am in a foreign country these first months I have not eaten much variety of foods because I do not like to try new food, I am pretty basic and I just like the food I know. Maybe I may try new food but the recent memories that I have trying food are not the best for remember.

Sleep Diary

SLEEP DIARY

Pointing the hours in which I usually go to sleep and wake up every day I realized that in the weekends, I have more free time, so I use it to sleep and try to rest longer.

During the week I have many activities so when I come home, I eat dinner and I do the homework. Some days I go to bed late because I don't homework quickly, for me is hard to do it in other language; other times it's because I want to watch a program on TV and this often ends quite late.

Related to what we are learning in Anatomy, I realized that I sleep more during the week to perform their best, is not good to go to school or doing activities when you don't have energy to use.

Sleep is necessary for the brain, to process all the information that you have learned during the day, so I personally must try to get advance of every minute in the day to do homework, and at night go to bed soon, so my brain will work best.

What is Health?

For me health is basic to have all the pillars in order, this help you to have a good life. The pillar who I am strong at  is exercise, since I was a child I do a lot of activities like basketball and hiking. Maybe the worst that I am at is stress because when I had problems I don't know how to control my stress this is why I want to learn more about it. Also I like to learn about how to keep a healthy diet.

Cell Specialization

Cartilage Cell

Chondrocytes (from Greek χόνδρος, chondros = cartilage + κύτος, kytos = cell) are the only cells found in healthy cartilage.They produce and maintain the cartilaginous matrix, which consists mainly of collagen and proteoglycans. Although the word chondroblast is commonly used to describe an immature chondrocyte, the term is imprecise, since the progenitor of chondrocytes (which are mesenchymal stem cells) can differentiate into various cell types, including osteoblasts.

Cartilage tissue is found in different parts of the body like in the joints, in the external ear and also between the intervertebral disc. In each part are different types like hyaline, elastic or fibrocartilage.

Hyaline cartilage is cartilage that is transparent.It is pearly bluish in color with firm consistency and has a considerable amount of collagen. It contains no nerves or blood vessels, and its structure is relatively simple. It is covered externally by a fibrous membrane, called the perichondrium.

Elastic cartilage or yellow cartilage is a type of cartilage present in the outer ear, Eustachian tube and epiglottis. It contains elastic fiber networks and collagen fibers. The principal protein is elastin. Elastic cartilage is histologically similar to hyaline cartilage but contains many yellow elastic fibers lying in a solid  matrix. These fibers form bundles that appear dark under a microscope. 

White fibrocartilage consists of a mixture of white fibrous tissue and cartilaginous tissue in various proportions. It owes its flexibility and toughness to the former of these constituents, and its elasticity to the latter.

Fibrocartilage is found in the pubic symphysis, the anulus fibrosus of intervertebral discs, menisci and the TMJ. 

Hana the Banana Lab

The case of Hana wasn't difficult to find the reason why she died. On her anterior frontal side she had five puncture wound in total, and also on the left sagittal side two more punctures.

Between the four punctures and the one alone are 4 cm. These four punctures are 5 cm superior of her end.

There is also a puncture wound in the posterior side which could have been the exit point of the bullet. She also has two small black marks on the right side.

Between the midline was a cut which measure was 2 cm long.

                              

Here is my Autopsy Report which I have done in class.