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Curriculum: Anatomy & Physiology
At successful completion of the two-year program, students will:
Terminology
- Break down medical terms into common roots, prefixes and suffixes and provide their meanings.
- Spell the names of muscles, bones, joints and other anatomical terms.
- Know the anatomical position.
- Link the common names for different parts of the body with the anatomical terms.
- Identify the body cavities and their subdivisions.
- Define and provide examples of directional terms.
- Understand terms for movement at joints.
- Define the various planes of the body.
- Identify, label and palpate bones and bony landmarks.
- Identify, label and palpate joints and joint structures.
- Identify, label and/or palpate muscles, fibre directions, origins and insertions.
- Palpate major pulse points in the body.
- Define, compare and contrast the terms clinical "signs" and "symptoms."
- Recognize and identify the signs and symptoms of selected pathologies of the following systems: skeletal, articular, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive.
Assessment and Treatment
- Collect and interpret relevant data in a pre-treatment interview.
- Know proper sequential orthopedic testing techniques.
Palpate to identify soft tissue lesions.
- Understand the principles and procedures for documentation of treatment data.
- Formulate a plausible functional hypothesis regarding soft tissue dysfunction, based on analytical deductions from all the collected data.
Massage History and Practice
- Understand the history of massage and how the roots of the profession affect how it is practiced today.
- Understand the theory and benefits of the principal modalities within the practice of massage.
Complementary Therapies
- Understand the philosophies, advantages and limitations of various allopathic and holistic complementary therapies.
Pathology
- Understand the homeostatic mechanism at both the systematic and cellular levels and how this is reflected in healthy and unhealthy tissue function.
- Know primary and secondary causes of the disease process.
- Understand the inflammatory response and its chronological progression.
- Know the role of the immune system in inflammation and repair.
- Know the consequences of impaired and excessive inflammatory response on tissues.
- Know the mechanism and presentation of injuries and congenital and idiopathic diseases and how they can be modified clinically by massage therapy.
Systems
- Understand the sensory role of skin in massage therapy.
- Understand the physiological effects that massage therapy has on the skin.
- Understand how the skin functions to maintain homeostasis.
- Understand the physiology of the remodeling process in bone tissue and the influence and limitations of massage therapy on this process.
- Understand the normal ROM of each joint.
- Analyze the muscle involvement in common movement patterns at specific joints.
- Understand the characteristics of muscle tissue.
- Understand the physiology of muscle contraction.
- Understand the factors involved in the change of normal resting muscle tone to hyper- or hypotonic states.
- Understand the role the nervous system plays in maintaining body homeostasis.
- Define and understand the functions of neuroglia.
- Understand the physiology of neural conduction.
- Understand the structural and functional organization of the nervous system.
- Understand the role of sense organs/receptors in proprioception.
- Understand the role of the endocrine system in the body's response to stress.
- Understand the homeostatic action of major hormones.
- Understand the process of hemodynamics and the factors that influence it.
- Understand the role of the lymphatic system in maintaining fluid homeostasis.
- Understand the role of the lymphatic system in the immune response and under what conditions massage therapy would be indicated.
- Understand the process of respiration and the factors that influence it.
- Understand the effects of improper breathing on the body.
- Understand the process of digestion and the factors that influence it.
- Understand the organic and inorganic nutritional requirements of the body.
- Understand the role of the urinary system in homeostasis.
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