Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your topic?

 Physical Therapy

2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)

“Researchers around the world have found that knee pain is common in people who are 65 and older. A recent British study in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism found that nearly two-thirds of women aged 50 and over experienced persistent, incident, or intermittent knee pain. And in the United States, about 25 percent of women and 16.5 percent of men over age 70 report having knee pain, according to a paper in the December 2011 Annals of Internal Medicine.” By Eric Metcalf, MPH. "Why Knee Pain Worsens With Age." EverydayHealth.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2012. <http://www.everydayhealth.com/knee-pain/why-knee-pain-worsens-with-age.aspx>.

3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form.)      

If a person with a knee injury goes to physical therapy then does the gender and age affect their recovery?

4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment. Include the tools you plan on using.

During my experiment I will be measuring time(Time it took to recover), mobility(Did they get full mobility back), and strength(Did they get all of their strength back).I will observe and interview patients and their physical therapists, research medical journals, and make a physical model of a knee. The model will describe the physics, mathematics, and material science behind our body structures. Also, another way to show my statistics is by recording the information and putting it into charts and graphs of the data. For the physical model I plan on showing the effects on age vs. gender on the structure of the knee. By showing this it will tell how the female and male body structure differs.

5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:
Physics