Hi gang! As you know, today's MT class was cancelled due to the weather. Mother Nature sure can throw a fit, can't she? I really tried to get to work but the sheriff turned me back. We were going to go over the Musculoskeletal System and test on the Blood, Lymph, and Immune system. We will test over both of the chapters next week.
For the Musculoskeletal chapter, please know the following:

• the three types of muscle and their functions
• the body movements produced by muscle action (table 10-1), please note that many of these terms we went over in the "body structure" chapter
• fleshy vs. fibrous attachments
• bone functions
• bone types
• surface features of bones
• divisions of the skeleton, follow along with the chart that I am going to email you
• axial - skull, thorax, vertebral column
• appendicular - the extremities (please note the upper extremity and the lower extremity are set up the same: the girdle, the long bone, the two bones, wrist/ankle bones, hand/foot bones, fingers/toes
• the book says that there are 10 phalanges in the fingers. This is a typo, as there are 14 (fingers 2-5 have 3 apiece and the thumb has only 2)
• the different types of joints(articulations)
• medical word elements (under "muscular system" on page 279 the only terms you need to know are muscl/o and my/o
• Pathology
• bone disorders - closed, open, complicated, Colles fractures, Osteoporosis(please know what the name has to do with the symptoms), spinal curvatures (scoliosis - lateral curve, kyphosis - thoracic curve, lordosis - lumbar curve)
• joint disorders - rheumatoid arthritis (an autoimmune disorder), osteoarthritis (wear and tear arthritis)
• muscle disorders - muscular dystropy (Jerry's Kids)
• starting on page 287:
• ankylosis
• contracture
• hypotonia
• hemarthrosis
• phantom limb
• sprain
• strain
• arthrography
• closed reduction
• amputation
• arthrocentesis
• arthoclasia
• open reduction
• pharmacology:
• NSAIDs
• skeletal muscle relaxants
• abbreviations:
• aka, bka
• aea, bea
• DJD
• Fx
• L1,L2 and so on
• ortho
• RA
• THR

Phew! I will email all of the handouts you will be needing here in a minute. Also, expect to hear from me in the next day or two, I want to know how you are and if you have any questions. Of course you can call me if you need me before that. Or even after that.

Please complete learning activities 10-3 (skeleton dude) and 10-4 (building words), along with the worksheet I'll be sending you.

Peace and grooviness,

val.