Resources

There are many resources available to you as you study these subjects: textbooks; peer-reviewed journals; popular journals; material given you by your professors; and multiple Internet sources. (Remember- if it is on the Internet, it must be true). As your education proceeds, you will need to be able to evaluate these different sources for reliability and accuracy.

For this assignment, we will compare and contrast different sources.

1. First, look at something very concrete and well-defined. Such as the innervation of a specific skeletal muscle. Use an anatomy textbook, and then compare this with sources such as Wikipedia and Google.

2. Second, investigate something slightly more subjective. Examples could include criteria for diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, or systemic lupus erythematosis. Again, use multiple sources to compare: textbook, journal article(s), Wikipedia.

3. Now get really fuzzy. Look up something controversial, or at least less well-defined. Acupuncture, aromatherapy, magnetic therapy, or megavitamin therapy. See how the different sources treat these subjects.

Rate your different sources. Were they well-referenced? Did they explain the material? Did they seem biased one way or another? Do you believe everything that you read?

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Rotator Cuff

The rotator cuff is four muscles that originate on the scapula, and insert into the proximal humerus. The form a "cuff" of tendinous tissue that circumferentially surrounds about 3/4ths of the circumference of the glenohumeral joint when viewed from the lateral aspect. These muscles internally and externally rotate the humeral head (hence the name "Rotator Cuff"), and also help initiate abduction. Another very important function is to stabilize the humeral head in the glenoid when other muscles are acting to move the humerus.

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Introduction

This Blog is designed to accompany the Anatomy and Kinesiology courses at the FPU DPT program. As you know (or will come to know), these courses are linked by body part. This Blog will be an interactive adjunct to (hopefully) tie some of the concepts that will be presented in the two classes together, and to add some perspective to the Physical Therapy aspects of these Basic Science courses.

With each module of the Basic Science classes, we will discuss a few PT modalities/maneuvers/manipulations that are appropriate.

This Blog is certainly not designed to be comprehensive, but introductory.