School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Clinical Exercise Physiology: Musculoskeletal
  • Unit Code

    SPS4203
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Sally Marie CASSON

Description

This unit provides students with both the theoretical and practical skills required for clinical assessment and exercise prescription related to musculoskeletal injuries and diseases. Students are taught musculoskeletal function, the pathoanatomy and pathomechanics of musculoskeletal diseases, applicable diagnostic techniques, exercise assessment, exercise prescription, and associated exercise responses.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SPS3301

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to assess common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to prescribe exercise as a therapeutic modality for individuals with common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.
  3. Describe the effects of common medical treatment and rehabilitation for common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.
  4. Explain the diagnostic techniques and treatment procedures used in the treatment of these common injuries and pathologies.
  5. Explain the pathoanatomy and pathomechanics for common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.

Unit Content

  1. Evidence base and clinical reasoning for clinical assessment for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.
  2. Evidence base and clinical reasoning for exercise prescription for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.
  3. Medical treatment options for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.
  4. Pathoanatomy and pathomechanics of musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 19 x 3 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 19 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Unit plan, lectures, practical laboratory work. Attendance in laboratories is compulsory.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Performance ^Practical Examination20%
Examination ^Written Examination50%
Assignment ^Case Study Assignment30%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Clinical Exercise Physiology: Musculoskeletal
  • Unit Code

    SPS4203
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kristeen Fiona IREDALE

Description

This unit provides students with both the theoretical and practical skills required for clinical assessment and exercise prescription related to musculoskeletal injuries and diseases. Students are taught musculoskeletal function, the pathoanatomy and pathomechanics of musculoskeletal diseases, applicable diagnostic techniques, exercise assessment, exercise prescription, and associated exercise responses.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass either SPS2505 or SPS3301.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to assess common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to prescribe exercise as a therapeutic modality for individuals with common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.
  3. Describe the effects of common medical treatment and rehabilitation for common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.
  4. Explain the diagnostic techniques and treatment procedures used in the treatment of these common injuries and pathologies.
  5. Explain the pathoanatomy and pathomechanics for common injuries and pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.

Unit Content

  1. Evidence base and clinical reasoning for clinical assessment for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.
  2. Evidence base and clinical reasoning for exercise prescription for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.
  3. Medical treatment options for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.
  4. Pathoanatomy and pathomechanics of musculoskeletal injuries and diseases.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, practical laboratory work. Attendance in laboratories is compulsory.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Performance ^Practical Examination20%
Examination ^Written Examination50%
Assignment ^Case Study Assignment30%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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