Neil van der Ploeg
Location Albury, NSW, Australia
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Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
Yes - a lot of information in this one!
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Yes, we've tried to keep the terminology the same there, but you could also say "origin" and "insertion", or as you suggested "medial" and "lateral" attachment.
I like what you've done with the pec minor, however, I would stick with proximal and distal, or origin and insertion! -
I'm glad the videos are adding to the experience! I really like them too.
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Ah, good pick up- I certainly did mean to say lateral instead of medial in that circumstance!
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Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
We have some astute observers among us!
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to zuelly martinez
You are too kind, we appreciate your enthusiasm!
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But there is so much interesting information to tell you guys!
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Wow - interesting to have a read of people's experiences already! We have many dislocations, some fractures and rotator cuff tears. There will be more interesting discussion on the shoulder soon. It is a difficult task to provide the mobility while avoiding compromising strength and risk of injury. Hopefully all of these injuries healed well.
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Yes - In my experience at least! Prone and supine are used within the medical profession. The anatomical position is not so much talked about among medical staff. You would not see it written in patient records or notes. However, it is essential to understand it in order to learn more- which you will find out soon!
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Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
Welcome all! We have a diverse group of people recently starting week 1. More people with an interest in Yoga, studying medicine and many looking to improve their English communication in healthcare! We hope you enjoy the course.
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Fantastic, look at all of the comments - people are learning!
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Ah yes, that works as well, however if you hand is pronated it can be harder to know which is on the outside! But the method that works for you is the best method!
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Varsha Vinod
No worries at all! You have paid us back with your gratitude and kind words.
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Miguel ACEVEDO
Yes, good pick up! In the text it should read as you have suggested - you are clearly on top of it!
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Robert Guenther
Aha! It is a bit tricky. The "arm" in anatomy starts at the shoulder and finished at the elbow, but it does not include those joints - so it only contains 1 bone, the humerus!
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Fascinating! Deepening the glenoid fossa with bone from the hip to increase stability - what innovative work by the surgeon!
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Quite a few people are hoping for pictures or videos to put to these words- stay tuned- Many videos with examples are coming! We do not expect you to memorise these words straight away.
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Yes, I like the videos too! Don't worry, many videos coming soon!
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Fantastic, there's a lot of love for the bones here!
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@BrendaSantos You are correct! The questions should have been divided so that 7-12 were after these steps, or they all should have been at the end!
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Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
Apologies to those people who are experiencing some minor issues with these question sets. We are attempting to work out why this is happening and fix. Until then, please have a go and do as many as you can! The questions are an important part of the learning process.
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I have a story that I might add here! My younger brother, Paul, was at school and he slipped, a lot like how Duncan slipped in one of the first videos. As he fell posteriorly he extended his shoulder, and was in full elbow extension. When his hand made contact with the ground, his teenage bones must have grown too fast, and were a little bit long compared to...
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Karen Challis
Excellent, that's exactly what we are hoping for!!
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Ian Munro
Aha! good pick up. The writer of those words has slipped out of the world of anatomy momentarily. We will change that. Thank you for pointing out.
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I really enjoyed reading this comment!
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Good question Rowan! With the spine its a bit different. The spine starts in the midline! In the spine it's usually described as flexion, lateral flexion to the right or left, and extension. When you go deeper into the anatomical world, things can get complicated fast!
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Many people have very correctly pointed out that actually trying to speak with people who don't know the anatomical terminology might cause problems with communication. What we should have said - describe something from everyday life using anatomical terminology and post below. Hopefully we can understand each other!
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Derek just nipped my forearm! I can see red marks on the anterior aspect of my forearm, about 5cm proximal from the crease of the wrist, about 1cm medial from the midline. Hopefully you can fairly accurately understand where little Derek has nipped me!
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Yes, good points! I would use the terminology within your own thoughts, just for practice. Communicating with people who don't know the words would not be helpful!
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Fantastic. The food may move in a superior direction towards the mouth! That, would be bad!
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Thanks for helping me out Sophi, you've got my back! great explanation to further clarify.
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to natalie ward
I'm glad the apple helped - I was also hungry at the time so it worked well for everyone!
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I have passed this on to some of our digital tech team, they will be very pleased to hear this!
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There are a few young learners in this course, it's great to see - Welcome!
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Fantastic to hear Rosemary! I hope you enjoy the course. I hope I can retain passion for continued learning as you have.
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Wow - It simply amazes me to read this thread. We have people from all over the world, from all kinds of backgrounds. Reading this makes me really happy and humbled! I really hope everyone enjoys the course.
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Paz Aranda
Wow! Thanks for sharing Paz. The human body is so incredible. I was inspired while making the course, I hope you enjoy learning about it!
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to zahra alavi
Fantastic Zahra - you are enthusiastic! Most people I knew in high school were avoiding more work, not seeking it!
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Pat Weir
Excellent to hear Pat! I've just started doing yoga during the lockdown- fantastic for maintaining the joint range of motion! Hope you enjoy the course.
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Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
Apologies students. There is an error in question 22 that means you cannot go past this question. We are in the process of fixing this. For the moment I would recommend completing the first 21 questions and then exiting the questions and proceeding. Thanks for your understanding.
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Neil van der Ploeg replied to Ajwa Tariq
Fantastic!
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@AugustinChen I thought that when you apply the paste to the day, month and year, you are just pasting those variables together while maintaining the number of observations. I.e. I imagine that the data is a large table, with a single row to a single observation- a flight. On that row, there are many pieces of information concerning that single row/flight....
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@AliceW Ahhhhh, you did it a smarter way. I just used this: sort(tapply(myDF$DepDelay[ATLtoLAX],
mydates[ATLtoLAX], mean, na.rm = TRUE))It worked because there was only 1. I wasn't sure how to do what you did. I see you make it into a table and specify the values to include. That's fantastic. I'm not sure I have a good enough understanding of...
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@LiyonSV The paste effectively just pastes them into a single vector, rather than trying to work with three discrete variables. You can then just treat them as a single variable - date of the year! That's how I think of it.
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yeah, you've done exactly what I did! You used arrival delay, but it was asking for departure delay!
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Yes, he's more or less going through at the pace that he's able to think and type - which is very fast! It almost seems like he's just having a play himself! I don't mind this at all with this delivery method because I can pause it whenever I need to, and go back - which i do A LOT!
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Yes, I'm not sure if they did that by design - to see if people can extend their knowledge, or if it's a mistake in the delivery!
Either way, i'm much happier with this, I now fully understand it. -
Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
Yes, I'm not sure if they did that by design - to see if people can extend their knowledge, or if it's a mistake in the delivery!
Either way, i'm much happier with this, I now fully understand it. -
Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
Great introduction into the wizardry of R !
I definitely didn't know how to make the R plot gouped by hour. I cheated and used the comments, people seemed to use the hist function with breaks = 24. That makes me slightly nervous because minutes in 24hr time aren't continuous and I don't fully understand where the different observations will be grouped. e.g.... -
Neil van der Ploeg replied to SUAT TANIR
If you go back, there is a description of how to find the data. The website in the video has changed, but in the comments some one has described how to find it. I think their name was "Prasad"
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I might hold off until the TAs take a look. I tried downloading for the period of 2008 (selected jan 2008 to dec 2008) and the file size was very small compared to what is described in the screencast. Only 297kb compared to the expected 600mb uncompressed!
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I cannot find the data. When I follow the link, there are no hyperlinked years that can be clicked on to download the data.
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Neil van der Ploeg made a comment
Life was good. Over the past year I was happily using excel to analyse data at work. I was learning more and more about the program and was starting to enjoy automating certain processes by using macros and learning more forumlas. But then Ben came into our team and ruined everything. He spoke about this R program. What Ben does with R, we now call magic. When...
