As I read Get me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to Sperm Bank by Randi Hutter Epstein, the author mentioned a lot of myths that people used to believe in back then. The myths are quite ridiculous to hear but at that same time the people back then didn't... Continue Reading →
When reading the chapter “Sperm Shopping”, there were a lot of things that I didn't think were such a big deal. For example, tracking down the man whose sperm you used. You would think that having the bundle of joy you wanted was the part that really mattered. But, unlike today, appearance played a part... Continue Reading →
I’ve seen and read many articles about the benefits of hospital births, but never have I been so upset as to why parents decide to have a child at the hospital. As I was reading part two of Get Me Out by Randi Hutter Epstein, I learned how the mid 1850’s-1900’s was a time... Continue Reading →
As I was reading the introduction and part one from Get Me Out by Randi Hutter Epstein, I realized how blessed yet wicked this generation truly is. Today, we see ourselves as the all mighty when it comes to viewing the medical field, which is true seeing the progress and changes that have happened... Continue Reading →
We have currently been working on our prototype for the past few class periods. We have started to set up the knee brace and add some padding to help keep the Patella in place. Also earlier in the process, Cynthia and I got to 3D print some hinges we thought we were going to use... Continue Reading →
Save-A-Joint consist of 4 members, Paola E, Jackie G, Stephanie L and Jennifer M. In our biomedical pathway we are creating an elbow pad to protect the elbow joint for fellow roller derby participants. In roller derby it’s very rare for a player to injure their elbow, but accidents do happen, if a player falls... Continue Reading →
So far our team has encountered little to no problems during the start of our DAP project. Since the last post done by Anabel we have gotten farther into our preliminary design proposal. Also in class today we had a little meeting with Ms. Meisner to talk about and look over our customer design matrix... Continue Reading →
Save-a-joint has been hard at work and started working on building a scale model of the elbow joint! We've been looking at endless number of diagrams and researching needs that our device needs to fulfill. Using what we've learned these past couple of weeks we're almost done building our model. Before starting our model, we... Continue Reading →
So far this semester, our team has managed to decide on a team name and team roles, as well as what our focus will be on during the DAP. After a brief deliberation about which joints we would be protecting, the Joint Protection Program is working on a device for the fingers. Although we were... Continue Reading →
Over the past 10 years moshing has become an increasing activity and has heightened by as much as 6 times since 2005. Older teens and young adults participating in mosh pits which can potentially harm their heads with injuries such as broken noses, concussions, black eye, sprained neck, or have consequences such as death. Our group... Continue Reading →
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