Tuesday, April 14, 2020

I Miss Sushi- Lets Eat!

Give me a California roll with some fried rice on the side... Uhmmm. Yum. Since this pandemic and my favorite restaurants have closed basically the only food I crave has been sushi. Yes I can make it at home... BUT it's not the same.... Rice, nori sheet, crab meat, cucumber, carrots, sesame seeds, avocado, sriracha sauce on top.... Yes please! Since it's all I want to eat, let's break down how that would happen.

Starting position would be me sitting at a table forearms resting against the table with the beautifully colorful plate in front of me, my eyes enlarge at the sight of food, mouth slightly watering. My eager right hand reaches out flexing my shoulder and turning my wrist 90° towards my midline, and digits 1 and 3 flex around the roll. Now it's time for the good stuff. My biceps brachii, brachial, and brachioradialis all together activate elbow flexion during this concentric movement along the sagittal plane on the frontal axes as the roll is brought up to my mouth. Breaking down my elbow joint a little more there is a concave on convex set up. The ulna is the concave portion while the humerus is the convex portion. The ulna moves forward while also gliding forward against the humerus. There is a slight shoulder internal rotation that occurs at the same time. Both the shoulder rotation and elbow flexion are open kinematic chains because the distal portions of my arm are moving while the proximal portions are staying relatively fixed. Once all of this is finally complete in the less than one second amount of time it takes for sushi to go from plate to my mouth, my jaw depresses, the sushi is placed, and my heart (stomach) is happy. Everything eccentrically moves back to the starting position for this route to take place about 12 more times. Wow I'm exhausted no wonder I want to take a nap after I eat, the human body is one hard worker!

1 comment:

  1. What a great post! Thanks for your effort! I am now salivating and craving sushi too--all your fault!!

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