Why I Love Knee Injuries

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Senior paper sounds like a hard thing but I have actually enjoyed researching something I like. This year of schooling has been easier than any other year of school; mostly because I have been doing stuff I love. This entire paper was all centered around something that you like and that is why I have chosen Knee injuries, sounds weird that I say that I love knee injuries but what I mean is that I love things about the human body. I have always had an interest in how the human body works and when I started hurting myself at a young age from hitting my head on things, tripping and scraping my knee I always thought it was so cool. When ever I have gotten stitches I have liked to watch or when other people have had injuries I have loved to watch how to fix it. I think all of that is cool, but I personally think that it would be cool to find another way to fix injuries and that is why I …show more content…

At first I thought I would maybe read some stuff and watch a couple videos, but it soon turned into more than a couple articles and a whole lot of videos and It was awesome! I have learned a lot about ACL, as well as the MCL. I learned a lot about the tear and other things that can happen to it and also the recovery process. One of the most interesting things about it all is how it all works and keeps our knees together. One of the most interesting things I learned about is the fact that all the ligaments hold our knee together and allow us to walk, the ACL is the most amazing it is a very tight woven ligament that is about the size of your index finger, and that it can withstand up to 500 pounds of pressure. The other ligaments in your knee help the ACL out with other things, but the ACL is the main ligament and pulls most of the weight in keeping your knee

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