Unembalmed Cadaver Dissection & Upper Quarter Review w/ Carla Stecco
Registration and tuition ($650) must be completed here:
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Instructors:
Carla Stecco PhD, Christopher DaPrato DPT, Alison Scheid DPT
Friday June 20th, 2025 9:30am-6pm
Course Info:
One day lab intensive and dissection
This course is an amazing and unique opportunity to study the connective tissue and MSK systems with one of the top researchers in the world in one of the top anatomy labs in the world. Carla Stecco will be in San Francisco for one day only in a fresh cadaver (unembalmed) dissection course with Christopher DaPrato DPT, and Alison Scheid DPT co-teaching all about the upper quarter anatomy, pathology, and practical manual therapy and movement applications.
If you have never been in an anatomy course with a fresh, unembalmed, cadaver specimen it is a gamechanger in your ability to visualize the anatomy with all the colors, textures, fluids, and connections that are often altered during the embalming process. This course is not to missed for manual and movement practicioners. Open to all licensed allied health professions and medical.
8 contact CEU hours
Logistics:
Friday June 20th, 2025 9:30am-6pm
- 9:30am-10:30am Carla Stecco lecture: Fascial anatomy overview; superficial fascia focus will be its innervation and its relationship with the lymphatic system, superficial vessels, and adipose tissue. For the deep fasciae, the focus will be the relationship with the muscles, the myofascial junction and its role in pain and proprioception
- 10:30am- 1:30pm Cadaveric dissection and investigation
- 1:30pm-2:00pm Lunch
- 2:00pm-2:45pm Carla Stecco Lecture: Fascia and nerves; the relationships between fasciae and nerves will be presented, with a focus specific on median nerve compression and Morton disease
- 2:45-4:00pm Cadaveric investigation
- 4:00pm-4:45pm Carla Stecco Lecture: Fascial anatomy of the trunk and upper limb and how this anatomy can help to understand the shoulder pain. Palpation refinement.
- 4:45pm-6:00pm Cadaveric dissection and investigation
Course Location:
UCSF OTI Surgical Training Facility
SF General Hospital
San Francisco, CA 94110