Hi there, I`m a 3rd year student who qualifies (touch wood!) and the only
contact we had with SD curves was as part of an 8week electrotherapy module
at the end of first year. Safe to say most if not all have us have
forgotten their significance or indeed how to carry them out.
It seems the only reason we did it was to please the tutors and to fulfil
some sort of CSP criteria. What's the point of learning something if a) you
never use it on clinical placements and b) have no incentive to revise what
you've covered. I`m sure they're useful but that's the first time I`ve
heard the name strength duration curve mentioned for over two years!!!!
Joe Moran
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> From: Dara Meldrum[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: PHYSIO - for physiotherapists in education and practice
> Sent: 14 May 2001 16:03
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> Subject: Strength Duration Curves
>
> I have a question for any lecturers at PT undergraduate level.
> Are strength duration curves (theory and practical application) still a
> part
> of undergraduate programs? It would appear to me that the newer
> technologies
> of EMG and nerve conduction studies have reduced the need for therapists
> to
> perform SD tests. Do any of you think it necessary that students are able
> to
> perform S-D curves in the clinical environment or does a theoretical
> knowledge of the principles of neuromuscular excitation and interpretation
> of the results of neurological investigations such as EMG and NCS suffice?
> Also I would be interested to know at what stage and as a part of which
> module SD curves are taught (if they are!)
> Regards
> Dara Meldrum MSC. MISCP
> Lecturer in Physiotherapy
> School of Physiotherapy
> Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
> 123 St. Stephen's Green
> Dublin 2
> email: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.rcsi.ie
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