Schedule
Mon, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM (6/3/2024 - 7/25/2024) Location: MAIN BRCHM 145
Thu-Fri, 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (6/3/2024 - 7/25/2024) Location: MAIN BRCHM 145
Description
This course offers an in-depth coverage of basic, applied, and clinical aspects of musculoskeletal anatomy. Students observe, discuss, teach, and learn skeletal and muscular systems in detail. This will be studied regionally in the following units: head and neck, back, upper limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, and lower limbs. This course incorporates traditional didactic lectures, with discussions, observation of you-tube dissection and
assignments that rely on critical and analytical thinking. The emphasis is on structural-functional relationships important to physical therapists but also on the significance of anatomy as the primary foundation in almost all facets of the clinical practice of physical therapy. Students are introduced to deductive reasoning based on anatomical findings and correlate somatic dysfunction (including movement abnormalities) with anatomical problems. Students will utilize resources such as the library and other sources of information (such as a we