Course overview
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the neuro-musculoskeletal system, emphasizing its gross anatomy, basic functions, and clinical relevance to common injuries and movement disorders. Students will gain expertise in advanced regional and cross-sectional anatomy, with a focus on the head, neck, and trunk, upper and lower limbs. Core areas are the osteology and arthrology of the musculoskeletal system, its innervation and blood supply. The development, maturation and the effects of age-related structural changes will be considered along with discussion of common pathologies of selected regions.
- Axial Body
- Upper Limb
- Lower Limb
Course learning outcomes
- Identify and annotate skeletal structures of the axial and appendicular skeleton, including landmarks of muscle attachment, and describe the type, structure and function of bones
- Identify and annotate the anatomy of the musculoskeletal system (including nerves and vasculature) of the axial and appendicular skeleton, on human cadaveric specimens, digital resources and medical images.
- Relate the biomechanics and anatomical constituents (e.g. concentric functions of muscles), at the micro and macro levels of organisation, to growth and development, human movement and mechanisms of injury and disease
- Identify and annotate skeletal joints and their macroscopic anatomy, including major ligaments, connective tissue structures and bursae; explain and recognise high-incidence joint injury and pathology on principal imaging modalities.
- Summarise the regional and compartmental innervation via major nerve plexuses and explain the functional changes in movements associated with lesions and plexopathies.
Degree list
The following degrees include this course