muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah) (07/27/90)
In article <1990Jul24.163130.22339@ecn.purdue.edu> muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah) writes: >What types of stress do the main blood vessels around the joints >of the body undergo ? After consulting with a med. book, it seems as though nature has come with a neat way of dealing with the flow of blood around the joints. The main blood vessels leading upto the joint branch off into a a nested structure (something like a ring) and then they (the vessels) become smaller as they progress away from the joints. I naively thought that the blood vessels were embedded deep enough to be immune from external movement of the human body. The days I spent in cutting up toads and rats in biology class, I didn't give much thought to how the blood vessels get affected by bodily motion esp. around the joints.