SYLLABUS AND LECTURE SCHEDULE
SP-6514 Advanced Arthrology and Biomechanics of Skeletal Tissue
SPRING TRIMESTER, 2002
Robert A. Walker, Ph.D.
Head, Department of Anatomy
Office: LL7B, Anatomy Center
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/robert_a_walker_phd/
Phone: 568-3210 (office) or 568-3205 (Anne Johnson, Anatomy and Physiopathology Secretary)
Office hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 p.m., or by appointment.*
*Meetings and other unforeseen circumstances may occasionally require my absence from the office during these times. If you stop by my office during scheduled office hours and I am not there, stick around a few minutes. Chances are I've just gone off to check my mail or take care of an errand and will be back very shortly. If I will be gone for an extended time, I will leave a notice on my door or leave word with the laboratory technicians or faculty secretaries. If you make an appointment to see me at a specific time, please make every effort to show up when you say you will, and please let me know if you will not be able to make it at the appointed time.
ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Students are expected to attend all lectures and laboratories, and to complete all assignments and required readings pertinent to each course as it is the College's belief that attendance, participation, and classroom interaction are vital to the professional educational process.
Attendance in all lectures and laboratories is mandatory and excessive absence in these particular settings will impact a student's grades as follows:
Greater than 20% absence from total class hours or 20% of lectures or 20% of laboratory will result in the administrative grade of XF (failure due to excessive absences). In such a circumstance, the student will be required to repeat the course in its entirety. The grade of XF will carry 0.0 quality points and can impact a student's academic and financial aid status. Upon successful completion of the course in a subsequent trimester, the new passing grade will replace the XF grade for a cumulative GPA calculation, but the XF will remain on the student's academic transcript as a component of his/her academic history.
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT:
This syllabus is a representation of the course content, organization and evaluation processes. The faculty teaching this course reserve the right to reasonably alter the sequence of activities, evaluation and assignment dates, and evaluation and assignment methods or styles. Every effort will be made to inform the class members in advance of such changes. Students are responsible for following the syllabus and any changes instituted by the faculty.
HEALTH CLEARANCE POLICY
New York Chiropractic College considers it in the best interest of students to obtain appropriate and periodic health screenings. NYCC provides such health clearance examinations to all students through the Campus Health Center at no charge.
All first trimester students are required to receive. a complete physical examination, which will include diagnostic imaging and laboratory examinations when clinically warranted.. Based upon this information a clinician will clear the student for full, limited, or no participation in the practical/clinical classes.
During the fourth trimester, the student must make an app ointment and have a reevaluation and an update of their case history.
Students are required to report to the Health Center for the purpose of updating their records if any change occurs between examinations, including any formal referrals made by clinical faculty in the course of a laboratory class.
If any condition is revealed during the health clearance process that may affect a student's ability to participate fully as a patient in technique or diagnosis laboratories, the student must sign a release of information allowing appropriate disclosure of information to all concerned parties, including: Class Instructors, Clinician, Dean of Chiropractic Education, Registrar, and Associate Provost. Refusal to sign such a release will result in the temporary or permanent suspension of participation privileges in practical clinical classes.
The Health Center will notify the Registrar the Friday prior to registration day of all students cleared for participation. Failure to meet the health clearance requirements will prevent the student from registering for the following trimester.
If the student is not cleared for participation as per the technical standards of the College the student must withdraw from the course and/or the program.
Policy Effective: January 4, 2000
Revision: July 24, 2000
LECTURE COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, the student should have an understanding of the following:
1. The basic materials properties of bone and cartilage.
2. The composition and structure of the major joints of axial and appendicular skeleton.
3. The response of bone, cartilage and ligaments to imposed mechanical loads.
4. Ranges of motion, joint packing, instant centers of rotation
5. Fracture mechanics and mechanisms of common bone fractures.
GRADING:
A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89.99
C = 70 - 79.99
D = 60 - 69.99
F = <60
EXAMINATIONS:
There will be a take-home midterm and an in-class final examination. Each examination will count 50 percent of your grade.
Make-up Examinations:
Make-up examinations will be given only under exceptional and extraordinary circumstances at the discretion of the instructor. The format and timing of such examinations will also be at the discretion of the instructor.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: NONE.
The following texts will be of use, however:
Skeletal and Developmental Anatomy for Students of Chiropractic, Walker, Lovejoy, Bedford and Yee . FA Davis Publishers, Philadelophia, 2002.
Gray's Anatomy, Any edition, either American or British, but preferably one from the recent past. Paperback reprints of century-old editions are not recommended for serious study. While the body itself has not changed in the last hundred years, much of the terminology has.
The Mechanical Adaptations of Bone, Currey, Princeton University Press, 1984. (A new book by Currey, Bones : Structure, Mechanics, Fractures, and Remodeling, also published by Princeton, is due out this July.)
Basic Biomechanics of the Skeletal System, Frankel and Nordin, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, 1980 (The edition I have).
Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System, 3rd Edition, Nordin and Frankel, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 2001 (The latest edition, which I don't own).
LECTURE SCHEDULE:
Dates should be considered tentative, but this is the general sequence that the lectures will follow. Please make an effort to read the assigned pages ahead of time. From time to time there may be unscheduled guest lectures of general clinical and/or scientific interest. Such guest lectures will be announced in advance and will be considered testable material. Dates for some guest lectures are listed, but they may in fact be scheduled sooner or later than the listed dates. If so, then the other lectures will occur a session or two earlier or later than the date currently listed. Lectures are Fridays from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Interactive Videoconference Center (Distance Learning Room.)
DATE TOPICS
MAY 10 Skeletal Tissues, their roles in the joints and their histological and materials properties.
MAY 17 Mechanical Properties of bone: Elastic properties, Strength, Fracture Mechanics Properties.
MAY 24 Bone Morphology
MAY 31 Mechanical Properties of Bones, Tendons, Ligaments and Muscles.
JUNE 7 Mechanics of Articlulations and Articular Cartilages.
JUNE 14 Properties of Solid Joints.
JUNE 21 Properties of Synovial Joints.
JUNE 28 Ranges of motion, joint packing, instant centers of rotation.
JULY 5 HOLIDAY
JULY 12 Mechanics of the zygapophyseal joints.
JULY 19 NO AFTERNOON CLASSES
JULY 26 Ligaments of the Vertebral Column.
AUG 2 Symphyses and the Intervertebral Disc.
AUG 9 Mechanics of the Vertebral Column.
WEEK OF AUGUST 12: Final Exam.