Palpation

The title of this blog basically explains the major highlight of my day. That is above and beyond the hours of biochemistry and behavioural medicine studying I had the pleasure of doing today.

Here at my medical school we get additional training in manual manipulative therapy. I have never had any exposure to this before and am quite amazed at how interested I am in this course. It is great to get into the lab and do things with my hands. It gets my nose out of a textbook and away from the computer.

Today was our second lab and we were learning how to palpate specific anatomical landmarks. There are A LOT of them! I haven't taken anatomy for a number of years so I think that it might be easier if my anatomy knowledge was a bit more sharp (thank goodness anatomy starts tomorrow morning at 8AM!!) Anyway, back to my original point, I learned how to find so many different anatomical structures; it was really neat. When I say anatomical structures, I mean everything from head to toe. That's right, we even got to feel our lab partners ishial tuberosity and pubic symphysis. If you don't know those exact boney structures, it's all good....let's just say we got real close with our lab partners. Luckily for me, my lab partner couldn't find my coccyx (tailbone) and she had to get help from the fellow who proceeded to find my coccyx then guide my partner down there too. Great fun! lol

I am learning so much that I can barely keep up. But I am managing alright. We'll see how the next two tests go (this Friday and upcoming Monday) and then I'll be able to tell you more about how well I am managing. But I've put a long day of classes and studying in so I am off to Neverland...

.....zzzzz......

P.S. There are way more landmarks than the picture shows, I just thought the picture was appropriate :)