April Blog Post

Hey.

Doing this blog post in a very angry and furious mood so please forgive any misspellings or grammar mistakes.

This month I did a lot of mentor-ship over the spring break and in the weeks after. Doing another blog on the mentor-ship I did this month feels really redundant as all the stuff I did was recorded in my Independent component blog. So here is a link to that blog post with the pictures and descriptions.

Always sassy,
Eliora

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

Literal
(a) I, Eliora Smith, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) My Mentor was my main source of information during my independent component 2.
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log: Done
(d)What I did what more mentor-ship hours. 

Interpretive
In such a complex topic, more mentor-ship hours always helps me to understand and plan my senior project presentation. My mentor and have started working together recently and I get to give him ideas on things that would work on a current prosthesis he may be working on. He has actually taken my advice a few times and it worked.

This is a hydraulic knee that refused to work and would jam. (no that is not my foot, that is the prosthesis foot)

I talked to him a lot about the different consistencies of plaster and the ratio you should have when making it.

as a typical ratio, you would want half and half, but its always better to have a little bit more plaster than water.

This is how we took a mold of someones prosthesis. Usually you have a pole in the center so you would be able to hook it to the table and work with it straight out. So the leg was actually very tall so we had to take clamps and ghetto rig the pole with clamps to make sure it would stay centered. also because we needed a mold with the top part of his leg we had to wrap duck tape around to keep the plaster from falling out and to give us a "leg" mold to work with on the top of the negative mold.

Applied
I got to talk to many patients about how their prosthesis was treating them and how their suspension system works. Many of them didn't recognize the word suspension so I had to ask what kind of prosthesis they wear. After the patient left I'd always ask my mentor if that suspension system was correct for that certain patient or if they could benefit from a different type. I would say something I thought was correct about a certain suspension type and he would correct me, allowing me to go home and search through my articles to find the information he told me.
Most mentor-ship hours are essentially easily acceptable answers to my EQ I just had to reach out and take them.