Complete Drawing Assignment in Coursework : A. Create a song or poem to remember the axial skeleton (and
memorize it), B. Create a song or poem to remember the appendicular skeleton (and memorize it)
section 2
Lanaya is 82 years old and was just involved in a terrible accident. She was driving her car down the Mass
Pike and suddenly large amounts of debris from a tractor trailer in front of her fell off the truck and went straight
into her windshield. She jerked the wheel to avoid some of the debris and went off the road hitting another car
and the guardrail in the process.
She is severely burned and has major trauma to her torso and head.
Her starting vital signs are:
In this unit covering the skeletal system, complete the following writing assignment:
How does trauma (specifically a car accident) impact the bones and joints in an elderly person. Specifically :
-what bones commonly break in elderly people?
-what bones commonly break in the type of accident that Lanaya was in?
-what major functional joints might have been injured due to her accident?
-given the bones you just touched on, what treatments might be available to Lanaya?
Submit the writing assignment under Coursework for Unit 8.
Utilize as many of your three core concepts of homeostasis, cell cell communication, and/or flow down gradients as you can (especially when thinking about bone repair after the accident)
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