So I used to call Nosheen Appa all the time and bombard her with medical terms so that I would feel smart. I haven't called her yet, but I'm needing an ego boost right about now, so here we go!
Well well well lets see where to begin... In the OMM lab we did some more counterstrain last quater I learned counterstrain on the cervical spine well actually just on C2 but you can apply it all down the cervicals be it on the spinous or transverse processes (except my sister has a tender point literally on C0 and I tried the common extension and opposite rotation - which didn't work for the life of me but I later found out that C0 (which is the occiput for those who don't know) counterstrain requires flexion, so when I get back to Chicago I wll try it again). Anyways, we learned how to do countestrain on tenderpoints along the anterior sternum (not like you could palpate the posterior sternum anyways, right?) and then we did counterstrain on upper thoracics. What was really interesting however was using muscle energy to fix type 2 dysfunctions on the thoracic vertebra. Like I could palpate your vertabrae and say oh look you T5 is flexed, rotated and side bent to the left, and you would be like uhhh ok that means nothing to me but fix it and I would say uhhh I don't know how to, but after today's class I do know how to! Ohh so exciting lol. Dude, every single partner I get in OMM is a waste of my life. No one knows how to do anything properly when it comes to treatment. How are you gunna increase my arterial flow and venous and lymph drainage if your too scared to put pressure? The girl who I was partnered up with started out being doctor first and I would be patient and then we would switch. It got to a point where she was like listen, cna you be doctor first? Cuz I learn from the way you do it. Oh, I also learned how to stretch subscapularis... I'd like to see how many people can put that on their resume (Where you are now UMAR KHOKHAR?!?).
Another highlight academically was whilst I was sitting in physiology, and the professor was talkin about secondary facilitated transport (I don't remember if that's what it was called but basically you use extracellular sodium to cotransport another molecule against a gradient, so it doesn't use ATP directly cuz the Na is going with its gradient but you need ATP for the Na - K - ATP ase pump, but anyways, the example of the cotransport was when the sodium was aiding glucose to enter the cell. And MAN this one kid in my class, subhan Allah, very very hard worker, sincere brother, his name is Ramin, iranian kid (People call him ramen noodle) he asks the question that why is the diagram showing glucose going against a gradient when according to the last class, the table showed that glucose had a higher extracellular concentration that intracellular. I was just blown away by that question simply because HOW in the hell did he catch that? I mean I studied the previous lectures too and normally I don't commit those ions and stuff to memory on the first reading, but I spent an extra minute reading that table and making a little cartoon of the cell and drawing out which ions and molecules are abundant EC vs IC and I remember that glucose had almost a 5 to 1 ratio EC. But like with the pace of the lecture and all, HOW did he catch that???? Everyone else in the world will say, who cares? That wasn't a big deal... but me, I give props where props are due. (The answer in case anyone was wondering was showing the lumen of the GI tract where there is a relatively high concentration of glucose in the epithelial cells (enterocytes I believe) relative to the lumen. But don't quote me on this, I haven't look today's lectures over. And even if I do, I still wouldn't quote myself on it unless I'm ready to take an exam on it.
Actually, I still wouldn't quote myself before an exam haha. Aiight ladies I studied a grand total of 1 hour today - from 4:30 am - 5 am, and from 5pm - 5:30 pm. Other times was spent sleeping, in class, and working out. Man, everyone n the freaking gym is jacked! Here I am working m shoulders with 10 pound dumbells and I'm having a hard time, and I'm next to people who could probably get a job being a walking anatomy chart. Well it is what it is... Now I will go to bed insha Allah and try to wake up at 4:30 and insha Allah this time I will stay up. Insha Allah.
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honey, this is why people don't read your blog. we don't know what the hell you're talking about!!
Well as long as he thinks he knows what he's talking about; he's the one in med school, not us >.>
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