Online Clinical Palpation Course is presented as a convenient on-demand practical course in the development of skills. The course provides physiotherapists, chiropractors and allied health practitioners with a chance to learn and enhance palpatory skills that can be applied at any place and any given time. The course combines anatomical knowledge with practical skills to allow you to build your skills in identifying and examining structures through touch.
Topics of anatomical structure are: bony landmarks, joint lines, muscle bellies, tendons, ligaments and trigger points. It has real-time video demonstrations to take learners through all levels of learning as applies to safe technique and clinical applications. Quizzes, visual references, and guided practice to enforce the learning are also included in each of the modules.
The practitioner is expected to become confident in naming the important anatomical structures by palpation, being able to identify any alterations in the tissues or structures, and be able to make more precise data-driven, clinical judgments by course completion. The course would be a perfect choice to the professional who wants to add flexibility to their clinical diagnostic skills, not to mention taking time off the practice schedule of the practitioner, and at the convenience of the student.