While looking online for new and interesting things about physical therapy, I came across a website by Ideal Rehabilitation called "Physical Therapy Fun Facts." I knew from previous experience that physical therapy deals with the skeletal and muscular systems in the body, but I didn't know all that much about either.
Did you know the human skeleton has 206 bones? I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that I didn't, but you learn something new every day. Of the 206 bones, 52 of them make up your feet and 54 make up your hands. That means only 100 of the 206 bones make up the rest of the body.
The Human Skeleton
I was
extremely interested in learning more about the muscular system after reading a
few of the facts and came across a website that went even further into the
logistics of it. Muscles make movement possible. Without them, our body would
be brittle and weak. I was surprised to find out that there is more than one
kind of muscle, though. There are actually three! There's striated, smooth, and
cardiac. Each has its own specific responsibilities to make the body work.
Striated muscles are voluntary, meaning we can consciously move them. Smooth
muscles are involuntary and move on their own. Cardiac muscle is found only in
the heart and is also involuntary. If cardiac muscle was voluntary, we'd have
to consciously remember to pump our hearts.
I'm not
going to lie and say that I knew any of this beforehand or that learning these
basic things about the human body wasn't slightly humiliating. I took biology
in high school and couldn't have told you any of this, but I'm glad that I'm
learning. I actually find this everything that I learned in my research today
extremely interesting and it's only reinforced my interest in this field.
Works Cited
"How Many Muscles Are There in the Human Body?" WiseGEEK.
Conjecture Corporation, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2013.
"Physical Therapy Fun Facts." Physical Therapy
Fun Facts. Ideal Rehabilitation, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2013.
Actually I didn't know how many bones do human being has. I got to know more about our body structure after reading your blog. But since your topic is physical therapy,I think you can introduce more about it to us for future research.
ReplyDeleteI like the voice of your posts; it's relaxed and relatable. It's good that as you're learning about this field that you're only becoming more interested. I feel the same way about Marine Biology, and I'm extremely excited to see where my degree takes me!
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that you are excited about learning new things. Although I am familiar with the this information, it's only because I'm currently taking anatomy and if had asked me a question on this stuff before this semester I would've had no clue what the answer would be. Did you know that movement is caused by your muscles shortening (contracting), which then pulls on the bone? Before I learned this I thought when a muscle contracted, it stretched. Have you thought about looking into joints and how they aid in movement?
ReplyDeleteExcellent post on skeletal systems. Physical therapy professionals are always using graphs like this to plot out key areas for improvement. physical therapy EMR makes this process easy and eliminates all the paperwork associated with the task.
ReplyDeleteI did not know we as humans had that many bones in our body, or the majority being in our hands and feet. I find it interesting! It makes sense being of all the tasks our hands can accomplish. I wonder if this is one of the factors in why creating human like robotic hands is such a difficult task, because of the complexity? I also wonder if we use all of the bones in our feet to the same extent as our hands, or if this is just a result of evolution?
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