Category: Day by Day

Salter-Harris Fractures

Review on Salter-Harris Fractures!

Type I: “Slipped

  • Separation through physis
  • X-rays often normal (may have lateral displacement of epiphysis)
  • Diagnosis clinical (point tenderness over growth plate)
  • Usually can be managed w/ closed reduction techniques
  • Doesn’t require perfect alignment + tends to remodel w/ growth

Type II: “Above”

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defecting

I was at the gym yesterday doing cardio since it was my off-day from lifting and I had a whole lot of notes to commit to memory. (These notes are basically the only way I keep myself going when I’m doing cardio because I hate it. :[ )

Halfway through my workout (yay intervals! …

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clearly, i have no life

I made this over the summer for my friend, since she was starting PA school and hadn’t taken anatomy before. It should be devoid of errors! (Hopefully, it’ll help someone out there?)

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living up to your name

Nadia and I frequently forget what we put down for each other in our phones (I’m “Black Hole” on her phone; she’s “Goomba Chang 800 points” in my phone). She actually almost sent me an angry text once because she was searching “Black Hole” on facebook and I didn’t show up. <3

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exams

There were complaints/suggestions last year that having just one exam per course was pretty darn stressful, and if you had just one bad day, it was all over for you, so the school listened to us and now, we have…3 per course, with a whole lot of quizzes in between.

This basically just means …

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