Following on from the basic assessment routines taught and practiced in the Foundations of Chiropractic Practice units, this subject prepares you to assess and test for orthopaedic and neurological conditions. It focusses on clinical neuroanatomy and its basic application to professional chiropractic practice. You will learn relevant developmental neuroanatomy, its relationship to orthopaedic and neurologic conditions in paediatric populations, and basic assessment routines via primitive reflexes. You will learn the neuroanatomy of the spinal cord, the autonomic nervous system, and pain of spinal origin. You will be introduced to common conditions associated with these, and basic clinical neurologic and orthopaedic assessment related to them, using your critical thinking skills to appropriately assess them. Simple case studies will be used to assist you with learning the diagnosis process, including case history taking, differential diagnosis, relevant testing procedures, and creation of an appropriate referral letter for a problem not suited to chiropractic intervention.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 2 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Co-requisites: CHIR12006 Foundations of Chiropractic Practice 4 & MPAT12001 Medical Pathophysiology or BIOH12008 Human Pathophysiology Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Portfolio | 10% |
2. Practical Assessment | 40% |
3. Examination | 50% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
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Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 46.67% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 35.71% response rate.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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