Practicing the knee exam

I thought I would share some fun pictures with you all. I have discussed in previous blog entries how our ICM II small group is our little med school family that we go to the hospital with and practice parts of the advanced physical exam with.

This quarter the second year med students are taking the musculoskeletal system (basically the anatomy and the most important stuff that can wrong with the arms and legs). Coinciding with our musculoskeletal course, last week we learned the "advanced knee exam" in our ICM II small groups. It was quite humorous in many ways. However, one of the most entertaining things was some of the positions you have to take with your "patients" to examine their knee for stability, etc. In one test you have the patient lay on their back with their knee bent and you have to sit on the patient's foot while you pull forward on their knee. In another test (the Apley Compression Test), you have the person lay on their stomach while you get up on the examining table with them and place one knee on their thigh while you pull and rotate their foot and then push and rotate their foot (looking for mensical injury). It made for some pretty fun pictures:




Here is Tara performing the Apley test on Sarah and Linnea performing the Apley test on Daniel. It was pretty funny.
Here are some close ups of Linnea and Daniel. Daniel's face is priceless!
Here is another pic of Linnea and Daniel. Again, the face!