Physicourses Sports Medicine

FREE Mini Course on Medial Hip x Gray Institute

Try out our FREE mini course on the Medial Hip Complex brought to you by the Gray Institute. This course gives students a sneak peek into the excellent content they will learn in the full length CAFS course. CAFS: Certification in Applied Functional ScienceMost protocols dont allow for the unique differences of individuals. The results are often plateaus and dead ends in treatment/training. CAFS will help you design customized assessments and build treatment/training programs that are tailor made for all kinds of people so you honor the differences of your patients/clients and help them achieve better individualized outcomes.We recognize how frustrating it is when the one-size-fits-all protocols we were taught no longer help us achieve the results our patients/clients need. Having trained over 250,000 Movement Professionals, well teach you the 8 Fundamental Movements of the body. Next, well walk you through 10 Observational Essentials of human movement. Additionally, well show you Local to Global movement progressions for the primary joint complexes of the body. Finally, well show you how to put it all together to create a limitless number of variations in assessment and treatment/training.

Sports Across the Ages by EIM

This course provides current best evidence for the young, the aging, and the master or senior athlete including basic science (physiology) of growth/maturation, implications for sports participation and performance, rehabilitation, and the relationship to common injuries in each of these populations.

The Overhead Throwing Athlete by EIM

The goal of this online course is to provide a deeper understanding of the unique characteristics and needs of the overhead throwing athlete for integration of these unique features and sports medicine knowledge base resulting in the best, evidence-based management of these athletes. This course will cover the foundational anatomical demands, common adaptations, sports biomechanics, and kinematics for integration of these principles into the evidence-based management of these athletes from injury prevention through return to competition and performance enhancement.

The Tactical / Occupational Athlete by EIM

EIMs Tactical Athlete course improves the understanding of what a tactical athlete is and their similarities and differences to traditional athlete. Participants will gain a better understanding of how those similarities and differences affect the testing, rehabilitation and performance conditioning of these specialized athletes.

Return to School and Sport Considerations for Concussion Rehabilitation

Lenore Herget, DPT, SCS, MEd, CSCS

Too often, a patient is seen after sustaining a concussion and given little to no guidance with regards to how to effectively and safely return to school and sport without excessive symptom provocation. These patients frequently show symptoms well beyond the typical timeline, as they have missed out on proper rehabilitation opportunities and potentially have developed secondary signs and symptoms related to prolonged removal from school and sport, such as psychosocial dysfunction and deconditioning. Rehabilitative clinicians now are involved with these patient's care from diagnosis to full recovery. This course will briefly address the multi-system involvement, not limited to oculomotor, vestibular, orthopaedic and cardiovascular, in the assessment and rehabilitation of the concussed athlete. The complexity of how each of these systems contributes to impairments and functional limitations will be reviewed. The most up to date research on evidence-based assessment tools will be presented as well as best practice tools for rehabilitation. This workshop will arm the clinician with tips to minimize symptoms in each domain to allow the student to return to school related activities earlier and minimize days lost from school. Additionally, the clinician will understand the importance of and instruction of a step wise progression of exercises from each individual system involved, to functional progressions of exercises, to eventual sport specific and non-contact sport related skills...

Strength and Conditioning Principles for Rehabilitation and Performance

Joseph Villena, PT, MPT, OCS, CSCS, COMT

Developing an exercise program is one of the core strategies used by rehabilitation professionals to provide treatment for their patients. These exercise programs can vary widely based on the target population and the respective activities that these patients are trying to return to. This innovative 2-hour course provides the rehabilitation professional with a fundamental knowledge of strength and conditioning principles, exercise science, and evidence- based practice. Understanding these combined concepts would allow the practitioner to utilize sound clinical reasoning when developing appropriate exercises and treatment progressions for successful outcomes in rehabilitation.Highlights Develop sound clinical reasoning for exercise programming using a combination of strengthand conditioning principles, exercise science, and evidence- based practice Immediately apply practical and effective strategies to develop appropriate exercises and progressions for successful outcomes in rehabilitation

Running Biomechanics

Joseph Villena, PT, MPT, OCS, CSCS, COMT

Research shows that up to 40 million people run regularly in the United States alone with more than 10 million people running at least 100 days a year. Running is one of the world’s most popular exercises because of its low cost, easy accessibility, and its effectiveness in providing multiple health benefits. Despite these many advantages, it comes with a high risk of injury with as much as two thirds of runners sustaining at least one injury during a year. The expectations for rehab professionals who treat running injuries is to utilize an evidence-based approach for evaluating and determining appropriate exercises and progressions for treatment. This innovative 1-hour course will help participants expand their clinical skills and knowledge of basic running biomechanics.Participants will be able to provide appropriate treatment strategies that not only help their patients return to running, but also optimize their running performance.Highlights Develop a thorough understanding of running biomechanics to help you identify major impairments during the gait cycle and its implications for treatment Strengthen your clinical decision making when determining appropriate exercise progressions based on your run analysis Obtain alternative treatment tools such as a return to run algorithm, run/walk interval program, and cadence modification training to help your patient safely and effectively return to running after an injury Immediately apply effective treatment and training te...

Optimal Rehab and Performance of the Overhead Athlete

Joseph Villena, PT, MPT, OCS, CSCS, COMT

An overhead athlete can be defined as an athlete that performs repeated sports-related activities in an overhead position. This can encompass numerous sports involving typical throwing motions like baseball or football to sports that require high degrees of overhead acceleration and velocity like volleyball and tennis. An overhead athlete may also play a sport that requires high levels of upper extremity power like gymnastics or Olympic weightlifting. It is imperative that health care providers that treat overhead athletes have a thorough understanding of overhead sports biomechanics, knowledge of appropriate evidence-based assessments, and a strong foundation in exercise prescription concepts to properly rehabilitate this particular athletic population. This comprehensive 2-hour course will help attendees expand their clinical skills and knowledge to effectively treat the overhead athlete, prepare them for return to sport, and help them optimize their athletic performance.Highlights Develop a thorough understanding of the basic biomechanics of the overhead athlete to identify major impairments and improve your assessment and treatment strategies Utilize evidence-based testing to determine if a patient is ready to return to sport Immediately apply practical and effective exercises to not only help resolve your patient’s symptoms and impairments, but improve their overall sports performance

Differential Diagnosis of Headaches Post Concussion

Cristin Beazley, PT, DPT, CBIS

Concussion is a common injury that is often poorly identified and poorly managed. It can occur with a variety of mechanisms and affects all ages. These injuries can recover on their own but often (10-30%) of individuals will have persistent symptoms. There are a variety of symptoms that can be present after a concussive injury and often headache is one of the most common. Research has shown that individualized treatment results in the best outcomes secondary to the multiple systems that are impacted after these injuries.1 A challenge to concussion management is that none of the symptoms that are often reported are unique to the injury itself. It is essential that clinicians who work with client's post-concussion have a clear understanding of the variety of possible contributing factors to the symptom presentation so that they can create a targeted plan of intervention. This individualized plan and understanding will ensure optimal patient outcomes.This course will highlight the variety of physiological impairments and systems that can contribute to headache presentation. We will review differential diagnosis as well as targeted interventions to achieve optimal outcomes and patient recovery. The course will present a variety of strategies as well as case studies to help support differential diagnosis strategy. There will also be objective measures including questionnaires, assessments of the cervical spine, vestibular/oculomotor systems, and evaluation of the autonomic nervous...

Evaluation and Treatment of the Hip in the Adolescent Athlete

Young athletes sustain a significant amount of injuries participating in sports. The unique nature of the adolescent musculoskeletal system requires developing an understanding of the physical/ physiological differences between adolescent and adult athletes. Effective management of these athletes in the rehabilitation setting demands the practitioner understands both how and why these athletes need to be treated differently than adults. This course will help the clinician to develop an understanding of the adolescent musculoskeletal system. It will also address commonly encountered hip injuries in the adolescent athlete, and how to best manage these injuries to help the athlete successfully return to their sport.Highlights Immediately improve your understanding of the specific hip injuries seen in younger athletes Evidence-based treatment strategies to manage the return to sport process in young athletes with hip injuries