Unit 4

Muscular and Skeletal Systems

Unit Outcomes
Things To Do For This Unit
Chapter Notes & Textbook Assignments
Online Activities

Unit Outcomes

After reading this chapter, students should be able to:

Describe and discuss how homeostasis is achieved and maintained in the musculoskeletal systems.
Identify and explain the effects of normal aging on these systems and how these effects can be differentiated from an abnormal or disease state.
Explain how initiating, maintaining, increasing, and/or decreasing one’s level of physical activity/exercise effects each system of the body.
Determine the causes for a loss of bone density and the development of osteoporosis; identify the types of osteoporosis, the clinical signs/symptoms, risks, management and methods of prevention.
Explain the considerations one must make in planning an exercise program for older adults.
Discuss the causes, risks, signs/symptoms, management and prevention of the conditions which effect the musculoskeletal system.
Describe the effects of age related changes and abnormal conditions on the ability to drive and identify ways in which one can help an older adult maintain their independence when they are no longer able to drive.

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Things To Do For This Unit

Download Quiz 2 and submit by Friday of this week.
Complete the fourth web board assignment.

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Chapter Notes & Textbook Assignments

The Chapter Notes constitute a brief outline of the concepts and vocabulary that you should concentrate on in your readings. The notes also contain supplementary information which will help you to meet your learning objectives for the chapter.

The notes are available to download and print.

Chapter 8 Notes
Chapter 9 Notes
Read Chapter 8
Read Chapter 9

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Online Activities

WebBoard Assignment #4

Choose a topic from chapters 8-9 that you found either interesting or confusing and write a paragraph about that topic (what you found interesting, new, or what was confusing about it) under web board assignment #4. Please place the subject or title in the topic space so other students know what the posting is going to be about. If the topic that you wish to post on is already being discussed add your ideas to the existing thread and write about another topic as your main posting.

In addition to your own initial posting on a topic, please read and post your thoughts and ideas to two of your classmates postings. (These secondary postings should be more than “I agree or disagree with your ideas/thoughts”.)

Quiz #2

Quiz #2 covers the material from chapters 6-9.

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