Tri-1, Wk14, Day 62 - 50/50 in Spinal Analysis!

Rocked the Spinal Analysis final with a perfect 50 out of 50!  We had 40 questions and an essay question worth 10 points - Yahoo!!  :)

Spinal Anatomy came out about as well as I had hoped - I'm not positive which grading scale the teacher uses.  It's one of those things where at most universities a score such as an 83% would be a B but at Logan that same score would be considered a C.  

The grey area in today's picture is the paraphysiological space sometimes referred to as the elastic barrier.  There's also active motion and passive motion in the picture.  To illustrate, if you were to raise your index finger as far as you can, that would be active motion.  Then if you were to press up on that finger with your other hand you'll notice that the finger will move beyond the point you reached with active motion.  You probably won't want to push past that point because little nociceptors will start kicking back a little thing called pain but, there is a tiny bit more movement that is available before the limit of anatomical integrity is hit (that's when things break)  That space before things break is the paraphysiological space.  

That paraphysiological space is where chiropractors work and since it's so close to breaking things it's probably good that it takes 5 years of education and practice before one can become a chiropractor.  Paraphysiological space is one of the things we studied in Spinal Analysis, you know, the class in which I just Aced the final :)  hehehe

At least we know I'm off to a good start and won't be hurting anybody!  :)

Incidently, HVLA or High Velocity, Low Amplitude thrust is a way of dipping into that space without hurting anyone.  That and a thousand or so hours of practice.  I guess the only people we ever hurt are our fellow students when we first start practicing this stuff.