|
Academic Year: | 2012/3 |
Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
Credits: | 6 |
Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
Period: |
Semester 2 |
Assessment: | CW 100% |
Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
Requisites: | |
Description: | Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop a basic understanding of the human musculo-skeletal system. On completion of this unit students should be able to: * Classify and identify skeletal bones and muscles. * Describe the structure and function of the muscular system. * Demonstrate an understanding of muscle actions in human movements. 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
|