Anatomy Dissection Trip

On Thursday 9^th February 2017, a group of Sports Therapy and Sport Rehabilitation students from the University of St Mark and St John travelled to the University of Bristol Centre for Applied Anatomy to study anatomy from human cadavers. 

Lauren Lyndon-Hill, third year BSc Sports Therapy summarised the day by saying: 

“Some anatomy aspects were completely different to what I expected, which gave a totally different perspective on the human body”. 

The gratitude and respect was shown to those families who offered their bodies to science so that our students could have the opportunity for this trip.

“This was a truly strange and enjoyable experience, being able to see muscle, tendons and ligaments etc.. up close and how different the perspective is compared to books and anatomy models. The size of the trapezius and how thick the Achilles tendon is just as an example! Students can only get to see these perspectives by actually going on these trips and gaining valuable knowledge. The doctors who over saw the day were very knowledgeable and always happy to answer question as well as encouraging us to be hands on.” Richard Haydon, year two BSc Rehabilitation in Sport and Exercise

Hydrotherapy Rehabilitation for our BSc Sports Therapy & Rehabilitation students

On Wednesday 1st February 2017, 23 final year BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation students visited Hannah’s at Seale-Hayne in Newton Abbot. 

The objective of the day was to integrate the principles of sport rehabilitation into group rehabilitation settings. The morning session, led by Vicki Evans and Alex Walker, enabled students mimicking a range of upper and lower limb pathologies to all participate in the same group rehabilitation session. Students were able to recognise that with small adaptations and considerations of progression and regression markers, full participation is achievable even with large groups.

Student trip to #WEMS17, Cardiff

This was third time that I’ve taken a group of Marjon Uni students to the Welsh Exercise Medicine Symposium in Cardiff. The event is organised by the Cardiff Sports & Exercise Medicine Society and has got better each year we’ve attended (here’s our notes from last year). The event was packed with lectures of a very high quality and on this page we’ve tried to capture some of our notes from the day, some of the papers and resources that were shared by presenters and our own personal reflections on attendance. Our group contained students from all three years of undergraduate study and most were either SPAH students or Sports Therapist/Rehab students. For many it was their first such event and for that reason it was a real pleasure for me to be part of that experience.