Tec — The Education Consultancy

Topics covered

• Introduction to movement — irritability, stimulus, and types of movement (autonomic/paratonic, locomotory/trophic/nastic)
• The concept of support and its requirement — hydrostatic skeleton, exoskeleton, and endoskeleton
• Bone versus cartilage, and the dynamic nature of the skeletal system — osteoblasts, osteocytes, osteoclasts, and bone remodeling and healing
• The human skeleton — the axial and appendicular skeleton, and the pectoral and pelvic girdles
• Joints — immovable, freely moveable, and partially moveable joints, and ball-and-socket and hinge joints
• Ligaments and tendons, and the action of antagonistic muscles (biceps and triceps) at the elbow joint
• Types of muscles — skeletal, cardiac, and smooth — and disorders of the skeletal system (arthritis and osteoporosis)