Brazil 12

Listen to Brazil 12, a 56-year-old woman from São Paulo, Brazil. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 56

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/11/1960

PLACE OF BIRTH: São Paulo, Brazil

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Latin/Brazilian

OCCUPATION: manager

EDUCATION: college

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject had been living in the United States for 30 years at the time of this interview. She’s lived in Seattle, Washington, and also in Southern California.

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RECORDED BY: Dan Keilbach (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/04/2017

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

The knee is a very important joint because it’s one of the joints in the human body that gets replaced. Uh, it gets wear and tear because it belongs to the lower extremity, which is a closed-kinetic-chain joint, which means when I walk all the forces that come from the ground to my foot will create passive range of motions on the knee, creating wear and tear of its meniscus, uh, ligaments, and also the cartilage. So, unfortunately, that’s why we end up replacing our knees, unless there is a trauma. So, the knee is what maintains us as an independent being; uh, when people start having issues with the knees, the floors are, uh, very much so at a distance. They no longer want to bend and go and search for things under the bed, and that’s why we love kids. [Subject and interviewer laugh.] Older people absolutely love kids because of our knees are in not in such a good shape. So, the knees have ligaments on the, um, medial side, but, um, is on the inside of the knee, and then on the lateral side, which is the outside of the knee. And that stabilizes in what we call bow-legged, which is the knee going inward, and, uh, knock-knee which is, uh — no knock-knee is the knee going inward and bow-legged the knee going outward. And so sometimes you’ll have damage to the knee, as you are a football player, for example: Person can run into your thigh and, or right on the, at the level of the knee joint and creating injuries for the ligaments, which I could name it for it you. Let’s, let’s go for it: medial collateral ligament, anterior cruciate ligament, and the medial meniscus; it’s called the unhappy triad. Everybody gets sad at the same time. [Subject and interviewer laugh.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Dan Keilbach (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/04/2017

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