Term 1, week 7, 26-30 Oct

Clinic:

• Wednesday tutorial: neurological exam, sensory
• Friday tutorial: OCCS tutorial

POS/Applied Technique: 

• Orientation about lumbosacral joint.
• Side-lying soft-tissue to scalenes, CES, supraspinatus. Different hand-holds.

SF/NMS:

SF/Developmental Biology:

OP/OED:

SF/Neurology:

• In the "news and announcements" bit of the Neurology section of BONEr:
  • TOPIC 1: could you detect muscle disease in a patient - that is; myopathy, primary or secondary?
  • See the following example of the importance of its detection (many of our patients take the medication referred to..)
  • http://www.escardiocontent.org/periodicals/yeupc/article/S1051-2276(04)00239-0/abstract
  • The following reference is aimed at GPs. Osteopaths are primary care diagnosticians. In which ways are the 2 professions' roles similar and distinct, in relation to recognising myopathy? 
  • http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/simplepage.cfm?ID=-19922934
  • TOPIC 2: What are the systemic, body-wide factors that contribute to nervous system dysfunction (CNS or PNS)?
  • See presentation on Bone.
  • I would ask all of you to look at the above for an hour or so, as your reading week session.
  • Please be prepared to discuss the above in group and individual mode in week 7 (28th October PM).
  • LB
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OCCS:

POS/Technique:

• No technique on 29th. 

SF/Orthopaedics and Rheumatology:

OP/Pathophysiology:

• Read about the liver, pancreas, and small intestine. Also, what tends to be absorbed in the terminal ileum?