Manipal Entrance Test For Master Of Physiotherapy - Syllabus Of Exercise Physiology And Electro Diagnosis

Introduction to exercise physiology, Sports Nutrition, Bioenergetics: Energy currency, Energy value of food, Energy release from food, Energy transfer in body during rest and physical activity, Energy expenditure measurement, Definitions – Sedentary, Physical activity, Exercises, Physical work capacity, Exercise tolerance, VO2 MAX, Anaerobic threshold, Strength, Power, Endurance, Speed, Flexibility, Agility, Skill, Acute changes and chronic adaptations to exercise: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Musculoskeletal, Neurological, Metabolic, Thermoregulatory, Renal, Endocrine and immune system, Muscular Fatigue: Causes, Management, Measurement of Physical fitness: Principles of testing, Methods and Testing protocols, Training of physical fitness: Principles of training, Exercise prescription guidelines, Exercise in: Medium and high altitudes, Hyperbaric environment, Microgravity, Exercise in special groups: Children, Adolescents, Females, elderly, Ergogenic aids in sports performance, Complications of prolonged bed rest/immobilization

Classification and physiological properties of nerve and muscle, Muscle spindle – Reflex action, Motor units – definitions, components and physiological properties, Resting membrane potential – generation and propagation of action potential, Traditional diagnostic tests (overview): Strength Duration curve, Faradic Galvanic test, Chronaxie and Rheobase, Instrumentation for electro diagnostic testing: Panel diagram, Types of electrodes, Filter, Amplifier, Signal Averager, Gain, Sweep Speed, Display, Stimulator, Nerve Conduction Studies: Definition, Principles of Nerve Conduction Studies, Indications and disadvantages, Procedure for sensory and motor nerve conduction (Median, Radial, Ulnar, Common peroneal, Sural and Tibial Nerve), Factors affecting nerve conductions studies

Reflex studies: H Reflex, F wave, Blink reflex, Repetitive Nerve Stimulation, Introduction to Evoked potentials-Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response, Visual Evoked Potential, Somato Sensors Evoked potential, Electromyography: Introduction to Electromyography, Definition, Indications, Disadvantages, Stages of Electromyography Activity, Normal & Abnormal Potentials, Difference between neurogenic and myogenic potentials, Introduction to single fiber Electromyography (Basic), Electromyography Biofeedback: Definition, Mechanism, Uses and indications, Procedure and disadvantages, Classification of nerve lesions based on electrodiagnostic studies (Neuropraxia, Axonotemesis, Neurotemesis), Analysis and interpretation of SD curve, FG test, Chronaxie, Rheobase, Nerve conduction velocity and Electromyography, Motor unit study parameters – Duration, Amplitude, Phases, Turns and Rise time