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Online Course Textbook - Reading Materials:
Program Instructions -
First, Download Complete Course Reading Material Here
Second, Download Course Activities Here
This distance education course has been prepared by the educational staff at the Blue Heron Academy. The course content is largely based upon educational materials prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases. Students enrolled in the Academy's advanced medical massage programs and the cosmetic massage, medical spa, and paramedical skin care specialist programs are required to complete this distance education program. In addition to the ACTIVITIES SECTION of this pathology program students are required to answer the test questions included in this READING MATERIAL.
Once a student has completed the ACTIVITIES assignments and the questions in the READING MATERIAL, and after submitting all successfully completed course work to their eLearning instructor they will have finished this program requirement.
Class Tasks and Skills
Complete the following activities and send your work to your eLearning instructor.
- Diagram
- Create
- Describe
- Write
- Identify
- List
- Draw
Body Region / Cavities
Directional Terms
Draw the body areas and identify the head and neck, upper back, mid back lower back, buttocks, thighs and legs, feet, trunk, chest and abdomen, genital and upper arms, forearms and hands. Use the correct body region terms to identify these structures.
Describe the limbs of the body using directional terms such as proximal and distal.
Homeostatis
Write a one paragraph statement describing the homeostatis regulatory mechanisms of the skin.
System Basics
Draw a diagram of the skin including the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous layers. Include the anatomical and physiological structures such as blood vessels, nerves and sensory organs that compose this tissue and list and describe the purpose of these structures.
Integumentary System
- Create 'skin' using common household items such as wax paper or a sponge, use materials to make multiple layers of epidermis, fat, etc.
- Identify skin disorders using yourself, friends, or family look for moles, warts, or other skin disorders.
- Identify (Magnifying lens identification) - examine the skin and hair under a magnifying lens and describe what you observe.
- Identify - Use a tongue depressor to scrape the surface of the skin (lightly). What happens when the skin is stimulated this way?
- Use your camera or a cheap disposable one and take a close up photograph of your face. Take a highlighter pen and map the problems areas that you identify on your face. This may include areas of irritation, disease, aging, or just things that you do not like about your face. If you do not have a camera you may draw your face and diagram the problem areas that you identify.
- Perform an overall body skin survey and list the areas of your skin and hair that you identify as problem areas.
- Using the "pinch" method and a ruler estimate the thickness of your subcutaneous fat layers in the following regions:
- Back of the hands
- Over the Tricep muscle
- On the abdomen
- Over the hip
- On the anterior of the thigh
- Do you have a skin condition or disease? If you do write a few paragraphs describing it, if not write about any condition listed in your course reading materials.
- Write and explain how other body systems such as the circulatory system, nervous system or lymphatic system can affect the health and appearance of the skin.
TESTS
The test for the pathology program constitutes the questions that are included in the READING MATERIALS. Once you have answered those questions you have completed the test.
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