Course Overview
This course is for health, fitness and sports professionals who work with musculoskeletal disorders occurring from running and multi-directional sport.
Learn how to take your clients from injury or post-surgery to back-to-play using a unique, progressive, and functional approach. It will look at the most common injuries in running and will identify the contributing factors to these injuries. The focus will be on learning rehabilitation methods and protocols for these injuries and learning how to re-educate movement patterns without pain. Emphasis will be placed on learning the rehabilitation methods and exercises in a practical setting.
Course Objectives
- Improve your injury assessment and rehabilitation plan
- Understand what’s causing your patients pain or injury
- Understand why 60%to 70% of runners get injured because of training errors
- Understand the protocols for each injury
- Clear exercise rehabilitation protocols for the most common injuries
Rehabilitation Protocols
The following 'return to running and sport' protocols will be covered:
- Knee: i.e. Runner's knee. PFP, Tendinopathy, Ligament tears
- Upper leg: i.e. High Hamstring Tendinopathy
- Lower Leg: i.e. Shin splints, Calf pain, Achilles tendinopathy
- Ankle/Foot: i.e. Plantar Fasciitis, Ankle Sprain, Balance
- Back: i.e. Mechanical back pain, SI Joint Pain
- Hip: i.e. Hip flexor tendinopathy, ITB Syndrome
- Kids: i.e. Osgood Schlatter’s, Severs, PFP
What you get
Get all the training tools you need to rehabilitate athletes with various injuries
CPD Completion Certificate
Course Handbook with Presentations & Research
Exercise Protocol Handbook