Course Description:

Practicing physical therapy clinicians are often removed in time from the opportunity for laboratory study of human gross anatomy. This eight-hour course will serve as a review of anatomy of the upper and lower limbs using cadaver prosections and will include both classroom and laboratory components. Review will cover normal human gross anatomy with emphasis on structure of the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems in adults. One-hour lectures of each extremity region will be followed by one-half hour case presentations to facilitate consideration of differential diagnosis for both the upper limb and lower limb, then two-and-one-half hours of hands-on gross laboratory examination of human cadavers, respectively will follow. Study of the following structures and features will be offered: bones, joints, muscles, tendons, joint capsules, ligaments, vessels and nerves. This course is designed to reinforce understanding of the neuromusculoskeletal systems of the human body for the practice of physical therapy. After completing this course, participants will have renewed understanding of how structure of the human body links to clinical treatment of commonly encountered types of dysfunction.