anatomy ...

Besides the names, there's the all-important integration into a properly functioning body. I
remember very well a test I had during my student days. The teacher walked in, walked over to his
desk, leaned down to get an apple, took a bite and chewed and swallowed as we watched, rather
perplexed. He then told us to identify the muscles that had been used. Four test booklets later, the
two-hour alarm sounded. Just wanted to remind you how important the function and action is.

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any suggestions on how to best commit stuff to memory?? i'm okay (mostly) with the names of the
muscles. what's getting me bogged down are the origins, instertions and actions!! heck, we've only
done the shoulder girdle and arms!! =:o well, we covered the back, too ... 😉

anyway, school is awesome!! there is just so much to learn!! we finish our first trimester this
coming thursday, which is amazing!!

thanks for listening!!

cheers!! jc

Hey JC! :-)

Sounds like you and I are in similar areas re: progression through school. What's getting me now
along with your questions here is the SOAP notes. I got the general idea of it and am working on my
father for my "case study" for class. We are doing shoulder girdle stuff at the moment. But taking
that information from initial intake form to the SOAP format and putting it how the instructor wants
including the little squigglies and symbols and shorthand is a bit of a challenge.. almost a foreign
language! I'd like to know seriously if there are any good books that are SOLELY for MTs regarding
SOAP notes or any way I can practice this stuff again and again until it becomes second nature. This
too shall pass right? lol

Have a great weekend! (I'm getting back to da books!)

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any suggestions on how to best commit stuff to memory?? i'm okay (mostly) with the names of the
muscles. what's getting me bogged down are the origins, instertions and actions!! heck, we've only
done the shoulder girdle and arms!! =:o well, we covered the back, too ... 😉

anyway, school is awesome!! there is just so much to learn!! we finish our first trimester this
coming thursday, which is amazing!!

thanks for listening!!

cheers!! jc

My wife, who survived anotomy with a bad teacher who liked trick questions and testing on things
that weren't ever covered in class, suggests that you get the anatomy coloring book and make copies
of all the pages and color them over and over again. Repetition is the key to that game sounds like.

Pictures are worth a thousand words, in my industry software development I often draw pictures of
what a piece of code does in order to help others understand what I'm thinking.

Best of luck

Regards.

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any suggestions on how to best commit stuff to memory?? i'm okay (mostly) with the names of the
muscles. what's getting me bogged down are the origins, instertions and actions!! heck, we've only
done the shoulder girdle and arms!! =:o well, we covered the back, too ... 😉

anyway, school is awesome!! there is just so much to learn!! we finish our first trimester this
coming thursday, which is amazing!!

thanks for listening!!

cheers!! jc

i somehow managed to get 83% on my exam this morning!! hooray for my side!!

i now have pathology exam to look forward to thursday morning, and my massage practical thursday
afternoon!!

jc