Students will learn:

• Heart reflex
• Front and rear leg blood supply
• Sequencing principles
• Blood Vessels
• Vascular models

  Day 1:

• Historic review of the “Rule of the Artery”
• Comparison and difference between osteopathic and vascular models
• Upper chest anatomy with vascular system
• Heart reflex

  Day 2:

• Mechanical filling patterns
• Form and function
• Homunculas motor and sensory
• Filling (supranation) and emptying (pronation) phases

  Day 3:

• Canine blood vessels of the rear leg
• Talo-calcaneous reflex
• Complete rear leg examination
• Direct versus indirect techniques
• Vascular filling and empting patterns

  Day 4:

• Canine blood vessels of the front leg
• Radius/ulna reflex
• Complete front leg examination
• Vascular filling and emptying patterns