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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Category: Treatment

Digital Design – Occlusal Splint

Students can use chair side technologies to create a digital impression, or instead take a conventional impression/stone model to start the orthotic process.  With an extraoral representation of the patients dentition, the data is transferred to a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software where the orthotic is designed.  Once the design is completed, it will then […]

Apr 12, 2021

How to Use Various Diabetes Essentials

This module is designed to be a resource for students to study common diabetes drug classes to successfully manage patients during rotations, educate patients, and prepare for exams.

Apr 8, 2021

Diabetes Medication Therapy

This module was designed to be a resources for students to study common diabetes drug classes to successfully manage patients during rotations, educate patients, and prepare for exams.

Apr 8, 2021

Radiation Detection & Measurement

This module presents four types of radiation detectors used in radiation oncology. It is intended to help radiation therapists, medical physicists and radiation oncologists understand how these detectors “see” radiation, the pros and cons of each type, and how they are used in a clinical setting.

Apr 8, 2021

Differential Diagnosis: Low Back Pain vs. Hip Pain

This hip vs. low back differential diagnosis module begins by creating a hypothesis list based on information from the patient’s intake form. The hypothesis list is then revised twice more as new information from the exam is collected.  Feedback from an expert clinician is provided to allow the learner to self-evaluate differences in clinical reasoning.

Mar 24, 2021

Manual Muscle Training: Trunk

This module describes the MMT process for trunk curl, trunk extension, lower abdominals, and side bridge. Learners practice assigning and documenting the correct MMT grade given results from a patient’s performance.

Nov 6, 2020