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PLANTAR PAIN: THE TALE OF THE PLANTAR FASCIA

 

‘Anatomy for Bioengineers’ is a cadaver-based anatomy course with a group final project component. This project required students to form interdisciplinary teams to educate a target audience about the science behind a particular musculoskeletal injury. My team presented the following presentation at the end of the course to summarize our design process. 

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As a human biology major, I was assigned to a team with an artist, a mechanical engineer, and a bioengineer. We brought our various skillsets to the table to create a physical model of plantar fasciitis to help explain the repetitive stress injury to young runners and gymnasts. Our educational tool (featured on Slide 10 and titled "Plantar Fasciitis Kit") was the result of need assessments within the athlete community as well as discussion about how to create the best possible representation using our different academic backgrounds. While we spent over 50 hours working on this project, this presentation unfortunately does not reflect that effort. If I had the chance to repeat this experience, I would include a more representative design/layout. In the future, I hope to ensure that my presentations match the complexity of the scientific communicaton process. 

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