Time to flex your muscles and gain some good anatomy and physiology knowledge with our in depth course all about the muscles!

If you know the bare bones about the skeleton, this course will help you by looking at the essential anatomy and physiology you need to know.

Deciding between coding an injury as chronic or as a current or acute injury can be tricky. In this course, that is exactly what you will learn to do, as well as looking at some of the important standards along the way.

This course takes an in depth look at the elbow - the anatomy of the elbow, common conditions such as tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow, and procedures to treat them.

This course will cover the national clinical coding standards related to external causes, how to index external causes and 4th characters. It will look at external cause codes required on every episode and those only needed on the initial episode. Finally, it will look at Y95 and hospital acquired conditions.

In this course you will learn the basics around the use of fifth characters, when it is necessary to assign one, and where you will find instructional notes directing you to assign one. This is a subject that most experienced coders will be quite confident with, however, errors involving fifth characters occur on audits more frequently than you may think.

A subject that can be confusing when coding fracture reductions, but this course will simplify it in a straightforward manner. You will learn the definition of a fixation, why they’re used and the differences between internal and external fixators.

Foot procedures can be tricky to code, there are a lot of small bones, muscles and tendons in the toes and feet. Part one will cover the anatomy of the foot, toe deformities, hallux valgus, Morton's neuroma and procedures on the first metatarsophalangeal joint. This is a two part course, so ensure you check out part two here.  

Welcome to part two of the foot and toe procedures course. We recommend that you complete foot and toe procedures - part one before starting this course in order to learn the anatomy of the foot. You can access part one here. Part two covers hindfoot procedures, foot and toe amputations and plantar fasciitis.

Coding injuries is something that we all come across regularly so it is vital that you know your national standards and can apply them in order to code accurately. The first topic in this course will cover the basics of injuries, how to code them and when to assign an external cause. After that you will look at documentation and specific types of injuries.

Joint replacements can seem like a straightforward topic – but things get trickier when faced with hybrid replacements, conversions and infected prosthetic joints.

A condition you will often assign as your primary diagnosis for joint replacements and commonly as a co-morbidity for elderly patients. First, you will learn what osteoarthrosis is and how it occurs.

In this course you will identify what an osteotomy is and the many indications that would require an osteotomy for treatment. You’ll then go on to look at specific types of osteotomy.

This course takes an in-depth look at shoulder disorders and associated procedures such as ACJ excision, acromioplasty and rotator cuff repair.