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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department for Health |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: To develop a basic understanding of the human musculo-skeletal system and the relationship between structure and function. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit students should be able to: * Classify and identify skeletal bones and muscles. * Describe the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system. * Demonstrate an understanding of muscle actions in human movements. Skills: Knowledge and Understanding - taught, facilitated and assessed Intellectual Skills - facilitated and assessed Spoken communication - facilitated Information Technology - taught and facilitated Problem Solving - taught, facilitated and assessed Working Independently - facilitated and assessed Working as part of a group - facilitated. Content: Skeletal construction; structure of bone and connective tissue, types of bone: long, thin, flat, irregular. Axial and appendicular skeleton. Names of major bones. Joint types; immovable, slightly moveable, freely moveable (synovial). Muscular system: muscle tissue, names of major muscles. Types of movement; flexion, extension, rotation, adduction, abduction, circumduction. Relationship of muscular system to skeletal system; identification of major muscle groups, origins, insertions and actions of main muscles. Practical analysis of limb movement. Types of muscular contraction including; isometric, isotonic, isokinetic, concentric, eccentric. |
| Programme availability: |
HL10034 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:Department for Health
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