Distal Phalanges Puns

Species: dog

Age: 9 weeks

Sex/Neuter status: M, intact

Breed: Lab/poodle cross

Body weight: 7 kg

History: Just picked up our new puppy from the breeder. A few days later, I noticed that he does not have 3 of the nails on his L forelimb and is also missing one on his L hindlimb. The corresponding digital pads are much smaller and the III-IV digital pads on the forelimb are slightly fused. Limb length is symmetric and by palpation, the other bony structures are intact. My guess is that he is missing a few of his distal phalanges.

How common is a paw deformity of this nature? Is this part of a syndrome with other associated symptoms or deformities? How badly do you think this will affect him (i.e. early arthritis)?

Clinical signs: No apparent gait abnormality or discomfort noted.

Duration: Congenital

Your general location: Canada

Links to test results, X-rays, vet reports etc: N/A (our first vet visit is pending; he has had his first shots/exam with another vet who did not identify any abnormality).

I am a graduate student so most of my climbing training involves climbing on plastic. Anybody have advice on how to build up fingertip callouses while unable to climb outside? I get to climb outside once a week and one problem that I have been working involves yarding on a razor crimp that slices my fingertips like butter. I realize this might be more of a /bouldering question, however I trust people on this subreddit more than most of those folk.

Sex: F

Age: 32

Location: USA

Height: 5'9

Weight: 209

Medical Issues: plaque psoriasis, mainly scalp (90%), plus some dime/quarter-sized bonus spots (ear, belly button, foot). Nothing else diagnosed.

Full disclosure: I looked those terms up. Well, I knew phalange at least.

Anyway, it has been months (3ish). I only feel it when there is any sort of pressure on this point, which unfortunately happens semi-often with my job (server, and holding plates in a specific way). I've never had this problem before.

My dad had a bone cyst on his hand once that he had to have shaved off . This occurred on the base of his thumb. Wondering if this is relevant.

It's just sensitive and sore when I touch it directly. But the longevity of the pain is what bothers me. If it was a bruise I would have assumed it would have gone away a while ago.

Is this something I should bring up to my doctor?

what is a potential cause? I haven't been able to find anything that seems to closely match my situation with Dr. Internet. I do have joints there, and I can actually flex them laterally but that's it. Anyone have insight?

Edited for formatting issue Regarding [Sloth] for the MWC:

“It’s fucking lazy is what it is, Kahrl. Stop trying to pretend it’s some super-secret-specialty-human plan, or a grand strategy, and just admit it…she’s lazy!” The shriveled creature extended one multi-jointed arm to point into the viewscreen, currently displaying a young human female working rather hard, it seemed, on some small device in her lap.

“Ah, come off it, Middix, she’s workin’!” argued the first creature’s companion. Like the first, he waved with a multi-jointed arm at the viewscreen, proclaiming, “She’s doin’…I dunno, some human shit!”

Middix, the disgruntled shipowner who was quite frustrated with the cost and lack of results from his most recent hire, the Human engineer named Vora, who was currently fiddling about on screen, scoffed. “Human shit? Whaddaya mean by that? She’s a damned engineer, she hasn’t bothered doing any engineering, far as I’ve seen! Is that ‘human shit’? She lets the ship run itself, most the damn time, and whenever something breaks she makes a little bot to fix it instead of putting in the [colloquially similar to ‘elbow grease’, though explicitly referring to the distal elbow on the primary manipulators] to do her job, she up and tosses a bot at it! Far as I can see she’s not an engineer, she’s a tinkerer. If I didn’t know better, I’d say she was trying to replace herself entirely!”

Kahrl, in his defense, was acquainted with humans a great deal more than his nestmate Middix, having spent several of their formative years off-planet with a series of Alliance trading vessels. Both of them were Kirillians, a race that humans were notoriously good at duping, since they seemed to lack an innate sense of suspicion, and lacked a matured ability to identify lies (unless given astronomical amounts of time to work out the truth). Consequently, Middix’s doubts...well, they were well earned.

Not all humans abused their trusting nature, but enough had in the past that Kahrl had once shared his nestmate’s uncertainty, and they’d both ended more than their fair share of Salvage trips at Human-allied outposts, only to not realize they’d been cheated until someone else brought it up to them, independently.

That would probably have held true still for Kahrl too, if not for his time in the Alliance Trading guild, where he’d spent time with humans that were at least generally more trustworthy than the ones he had encountered as a private trader out here in the f

Instead of being productive at work recently, I instead spent a day obsessing about the actual size of Illyrian wings. I'm a scientist so naturally I did a back of the envelope calculation. TL;DR, the batboys should have a ~35-37 ft wingspan fully extended. Read on for the proof.

Assumptions made:

• The wings themselves have to obey the laws of physics in terms of how much load they can bear.
• Illyrians have bat-like wings, not bird wings, so we will use data from bat biomechanics/flight studies (great overview here).
• Illyrian/fae muscle strength is much greater than real mammals (if humans had wings instead of arms, we'd need pectoral muscles twice the size of a body builder and lighter bones). Given that the Illyrian wings are a third pair of limbs, they would be powered primarily by back muscle (see below for further speculation on anatomy). The important point is that I'm not going to pretend that the muscle mass scales with human/mammal muscle strength.
• The model Illyrian male is approximately 100kg (220 lbs), e.g. Cassian is described to be very tall and extremely muscular, which I picture to be similar to Jason Momoa's build, who is 6'4" and ~97kg.

The physics:

• Wing loading: The important wing size number for wings' ability to support weight is not wingspan, but rather wing area, because it determines how much force can be borne for a given speed/agility of flight. This is because of a number called wing loading, which is the force per unit area that a wing can bear during flight. At 1G (e.g. soaring in a straight line), the equivalent unit is kg/m^2. But since the bat boys are aerial fighters, they need to withstand much higher G's (military jets can pull >7.5G, and some birds can possibly pull >10G). However, this is a rabbit hole because of the complex aerodynamics/aerial maneuvers of bat flight, which suggests bats may be able to reduce G forces on their wings by how they maneuver their wings in the air vortices created during flight. So we will assume that appropriate wing loading num

So here’s what we have to work with:

-15lb KB

-44lb KB

-50lb KB

-Adjustable dumbbells to 100lbs each

-Resistance bands

-Non-displaced comminuted fracture of the distal phalange of the left hallux

Obviously I don’t plan on doing a lot of movements that involve the lower body, but I’m trying to think of exercises that’ll give me a good workout using mostly the upper body, beyond just isolation exercises. Anyone care to help me brainstorm?

First one to figure it out gets absolutely nothing and will like it:

Once all is lost to immolation from my core ro where I end

A gale shall sing its admiration and the world will hear it said

In my dominion I am viewed though none else step inside

My loneliness is only soothed when I lay and close my eyes

Take from me the means by which I flee from where I am

And tell me if you've ever wished to strike me where I stand

Grant me please a mother's love or leave me on my own

The muffled sounds from out above remind me I'm alone

Resentful of the summer sky so beautiful and clear

Whilst I am held by unseen ties that manifest my fears

The foreign tongue in which it speaks behind me all the while

Though low in tone does promise me it longs to see my smile

So from my core to body's end I seek no light at all

For now I know my only friend walks here in darkened halls

Soft rays of morning sunshine left her skin absolutely glowing. Waking up beside her was the moment John looked forward to every day. Watching as she lay there peacefully, her beauty never failed to astound him. She was beautiful, even if she didn’t see it. This morning was no different, all he could see was perfection.

“I’m getting fat!” She had started to say the day before, but he always quelled her worries, “it’s just bloating! You’ll lose it all in no time. Give it a couple of days.”

He wouldn’t lie if you asked him if he secretly enjoyed her newly extended belly. Her skin had even taken on a natural tan, she was looking so healthy with her newly brown skin. He ran a finger down her cheek, taking in her new look. Aw, she’s foaming in her sleep. Better clean her up. He took a handkerchief from the bedside table and slowly wiped along the bottom of her nose and mouth. The white fabric soon staining red. He knew he had to be careful with her, the poor thing, she had become so delicate the last week or so. They didn’t want another incident. Not like the other day when he took some skin off her hand from grabbing it too roughly. Even if she had forgiven him, John felt horrible. This was his precious lover he hurt.

He never knew bones to be beautiful until hers were exposed however. The distal phalanges were so petite, the new tips of her left hand even more lovely than her pale pink nails. John made sure he had cleaned in between each cream coloured phalange, his girl liked to be presentable after all. It was something he always respected about her. When she became bed bound, she made him promise that he would keep her perfect still. A promise he was happy to keep.

So John kept her clean. Even when she became incontinent and made a mess of their shared bed, he was quick to wipe her up, change the sheets and put her back to bed. Soothing her as she cried herself to sleep. It was a hard first couple of days, but eventually she stopped making a mess down there and they were able to continue on their lives semi-normally.

Now he got to spend every day watching her as she slept. The girl of his dreams. Forever his, forever perfect.

Good day Doctors, My right hand thumb has been really painful for the last 2-3 months. This past week it became so painful that I can hardly open a soft drink bottle. Then like today its normalish again. I went to the local GP and he said I should get an xray to see if its broken. The xray came back with the following commens from the radiologist:

• Some eriosion formation seen to the distal aspect of the ulna.
• There is sclerosis seen to the distal aspect of the ulna
• MRI is suggested for further investigation
• Distal aspect of the radius and ulna are normal
• Carpals are normal
• Metacarpal shafts are intact
• Individual phalanges are normal
• IP and MP joins are normal
• Right wrist and hand are intact
• There are not other arthritis specific changes seen.
• Alignment is normal

I took the xrays and letter from radiologist back to the GP and he said its nothing just a little bit of inflamation and going for a hand MRI is a waste of money.

However, I am very doubtful of this diagnosis. He prescribed some ibuprofen and predisone 5mg.

This question came to my mind since having only one pressure point on the string would lead to less resistance on release, wouldn't it? And in my case I observed that it leads to a much more effortless pull if I use a thumb release instead of the "normal" method. I know that this is quite unorthodox, and there must be a reason why it's not used in competition, but I'm still interested in what are your thoughts on this topic.

Fusion, L4/L5/S1 January 2021. Two rods and 6 pins. I’ve had sciatica since 1989 on-and-off. When it kicked up, I was rendered immobile and in agony. After surgery, my sciatic nerve in my left butt cheek feels like it’s pulling - like taffy. It’s a low, deep, agonizing pain that won’t go away. There are just different degrees of the pain. Most times it makes me nauseous. Since the surgery I’ve had varying degrees of numbness and tingling in my left big toe, and recently, the same thing in the distal phalanges of my left index finger. What is going on? My surgeon is no help. When my husband told him during my most recent appointment that I go to bed sobbing in pain many nights, he told my husband he should sleep in another bedroom! So, no, not going back. Should I be seeing a neurologist or a new orthopedist? Or someone else? I’m sick of being in even more constant pain than usual. Also, what’s with constantly being on the verge of a Charlie horse in my left calf? I have adapted to sleeping with my left foot hyper-extended. My post-surgery imaging shows excellent bone healing. The surgeon said my sciatic nerve was “mangled” before the surgery and is quite angry. Has anyone else experienced anything like this after a similar surgery? Is there any hope of healing?

Do your worst!

How do I go about performing the kinematic and dynamic analysis of such a finger, I am new to mechanisms in robotics, could anyone please help me out?

The finger is composed of a distal phalange (DP), middle phalange (MP), proximal phalange (PP), and metacarpal bone (MB). The finger joints consist of a proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint and a metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint. The length of the designed finger from the end of the DP to the center of the MCP joint is 83 mm, which is close to that of a human finger. The flexion and extension of the finger are reproduced by pulling the tendon fixed on the phalange during contraction and relaxation of the muscle. The motor used for finger flexion was mounted inside the finger PP, and the wire was fixed to the worm wheel gear and MP. Finger flexion is performed by pulling the wire fixed to the worm wheel gear when the motor is driven. The PP of the finger is flexed at the MCP joint by the motor-bevel gear-worm gear, and at this time, the wire fixed to the worm wheel gear is pulled and the MP and DP are flexed at the same time. The finger extension is performed by a restoring spring mounted between the PP and MP, and finger flexion is performed by a motor-wire type tendon-driven mechanism with one DOF. The videos can be seen here and from the figures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5dY9zsh8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvmbTIBt4kA

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For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

This is a redux of my first ever post in this community, 3 years ago. The word listed first is what I think is best, but I do have alternatives for some of them.

 

Key:

(ᛣ): Calque from Dutch or German, most of which are calques from Latin in turn

(X): Calque from Latin

(N): Norse

(L): Pre-1066 Latin

 

#The Skeleton → The Bones, The Bonework, The Boneframe (X), The Boneset (X)

 

Spine → Ridge

• vertebra → ridgebone, wharvebone, whirlbone (N)
  • cervical vertebrae → neckridgebones (ᛣ)
  • thoracic vertebrae → backridgebones (ᛣ)
  • lumbar vertebrae → lendridgebones (ᛣ)
  • sacrum → holibone
  • coccyx → tailbone

 

Breast

• sternum → breastbone
• rib cage → ribframe (ᛣ)
  • ribs
  • cervical ribs → neckribs (ᛣ)

 

Skull → Headpan, Headbone, Brainpan, Skull (N)

• cranial bones → headbones
  • occipital bone → hindheadbone, backheadbone, rearheadbone (ᛣ)
  • parietal bones → sideheadbones
  • frontal bone → foreheadbone
  • temporal bones → thunwangbones
  • sphenoid bone → wedgebone
  • ethmoid bone → sievebone
• facial bones → anletbones
  • nasal bones → nosebones
  • maxillae → upper chavelbones (ᛣ)
  • lacrimal bones → tearbones (ᛣ)
  • zygomatic bones → cheekbones
  • palatine bones → gumbones, roofbones (ᛣ)
  • inferior nasal concha → nether noseshell (ᛣ), lower noseshell (ᛣ) (N)
  • vomer → ploughsharebone (ᛣ)
  • hyoid bone → tonguebone
  • mandible → chavelbone, nether chavelbone, lower chavelbone (N)
• middle ear
  • malleus → hammer
  • incus → anvil
  • stapes → stirrup

 

Arm

• upper arm
  • shoulder
    • scapula → shoulderbone, shoulderblade
    • clavicle → withebone
  • humerus → armbone
• nether arm, lower arm (N)
  • ulna → elbone, ellbone
  • radius → spokebone, wandbone (N)

 

Hand

• carpals → wristbones
  • scaphoid bone → boatbone, shipbone (X)
  • lunate bone → moonbone (ᛣ)
  • triquetal bone → thrihirnbone, threehirnbone (ᛣ)
  • pisiform bone → peabone, peasebone (L) (ᛣ)
  • trapezium → greater manihirnbone (ᛣ)
  • trapezoid bone → lesser manihirnbone (ᛣ)
  • capitate bone → headbone, mainbone (ᛣ)
  • hamate bone → hookbone (ᛣ)
• metacarpals → handbones
• phalanges → fingerbones
  • proximal phalanges → near fingerbones
  • intermediate phalanges → mid(dle) fingerbones
  • distal phalanges → far fing

It really does, I swear!

** Ban Declawing Act of 2021**

Whereas declawing is an unnecessary and cruel technique to prevent scratching in pets

Whereas most veterinary experts believe it is not necessary and can cause many behavioral side effects

Whereas there are many other ways to prevent and mitigate the effects of animals clawing that don’t involve this procedure

Section 1: Definitions

(a) “Companion animal” is any animal that is owned by a person for any purposes that aren’t medical research, industrial usage, or farming purposes for the purpose of this legislation.

(b) “Onychectomy”-is an operation to remove an animal's claws surgically by means of the amputation of all or part of the distal phalanges, or end bones, of the animal's toes.

Section 2: Provisions

(a) It shall be prohibited to perform an Onychectomy procedure on any companion animal in the State of Greater Appalachia for any reasoning except for when a licensed veterinarian deems it medically necessary for the animal.

(i) Any person who performs an Onychectomy procedure for any other reason than prescribed by Section 2(a) of this legislation shall be guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

*Section 3: Enactment*

(a) If any section of this legislation is deemed unconstitutional, the bill shall become invalid.

(b) This will take effect 180 days after enactment.

Written by /u/Furno42 and Sponsored by /u/BranofRaisin and /u/KushGator, assemblymen from Greater Appalachia

1 amendment was proposed and was adopted. The changes are highlighted in bold.

Any votes cast 48 hours after the posting of this thread may be considered invalid at the discretion of the clerk.

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

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