It’s Not All Handy Dandy - by RBL

 It’s Not All Handy Dandy

This is my first action project for my Cure class. This class is a second part to our Disease class last term. In this unit, titled Emergency, we’ve been learning about what can go wrong in the body and how to fix it. We first looked at the Hippocratic oath that doctors take, so we could see the rules that they follow. We also went to the International Museum for Surgical Science to see how different surgeries are done and why. As well as learning how different cells can reproduce through meiosis and mitosis. Leading up to our action project being to look up a surgery of our own choice and create a pamphlet about it that patients might see before getting that surgery. I decided to research Carpal Tunnel syndrome for my action project. In the cells, carpal tunnel syndrome can cause a stop in fluid production in the cells because of repeated use of the same action. From there these cells might cause friction in the system leading to the hand slowing down. can cause and here's my pamphlet below.

   

Overall I did enjoy doing this action project because it was interesting to see how carpal tunnel syndrome can effect different people. I also enjoyed doing research on how the surgery itself is done and how people can recover from it. I did find it difficult to start because I wasn’t sure how I should’ve written all of the information in a good manner. If I were to do it again, I would pick a surgery that I had more personal experience with.