Learn how to think critically and apply strength and conditioning skills in a clinical context. Learn at your own speed and develop skills in the rehabilitation and physical preparation of patients with upper and lower limb conditions.
Devise your own rehabilitation and physical preparation framework unique to your own way of working and current experience.
Understand how day to day clinical data from your objective assessments can be used to make better clinical decisions.
Understand how the patients story can be used to direct your rehabilitation and strength and conditioning programming.
Develop a template for movement screening which can be applied to any patient or clinical setting.
Understand how to decide if your patients rehabilitation needs are related to a movement skill problem or a specific physical quality such as strength, balance, range of motion or power etc.
Conduct a comprehensive needs analysis and physical assessment for any sport, occupation or activity.
Apply practical biomechanics to your exercise prescription interventions and understand how to regress and progress many strength exercises.
A message from the course leader - Uzo Ehiogu
How to get the most from this module
How to use this course
How to contribute to the course discussions ?
Before we begin...
Creating your own rehabilitation framework for better patient outcomes
Philosophy of science and physiotherapy
Coaching and training philosophy ... what's yours ?
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How do we use data to make practical rehab decisons ?
The Effect of Strength Training on the Jump Landing
Key Prerequisite Factors Influencing Landing Forces in Netball
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Taking a patient history - Not all problems need a strength and conditioning solution!
Clinical reasoning decision making, action and thinking
Physiotherapists as detectives - looking for clues and investigating plots
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Skills and Capacities The holy grail of training transfer!
Skills and Capacities - Video blog squat and unilateral split squat
Physical capacity, not skeletal maturity is associated with competitive preformance in male U14 players
Skill not athleticism predicts individual variation in match performance of soccer players
Specificity of training adaptations - time to re-think the status quo
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The Needs analysis and capacity assessment
Problem solving process to identify the orgins of poor movement
Systems based approach to injury prevention for S&C coaches
ACL return to play - current guidance - a step back to step forwards
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Movement screening
A preliminary investigation to establish the validity of the single leg squat
Gluteal muscle activation during common theraputic exercises
Hip-Muscle Activation During various lower limb single leg exercises
Single Leg Squat - When to prescribe this exercise ?
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Practical biomechanics - The concepts that count in clinical practice!
Back squat - A proposed assessment of functional and technical limitations to performance
Landing mechanics - What , why and how?
Biomechanics Practical applications of biomechanical principles in resistance training and moments
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Congrats! Here's what's next...
More resources for you
Before you go...
The course contains a series of modules. Each sub-module has video presentations and access to journal article readings to add a level of depth to your learning for clinical application.
Module 1-7
Course Leader
Uzo is a charismatic specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and NHS clinical teaching fellow. Uzo has over 17 years experience in the management of musculoskeletal disorders in both outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation settings. He has worked in high performance rehabilitation environments in the Armed forces as a British Army Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Officer to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and United Kingdom special forces.
Uzo has bachelors degrees in applied sports science and physiotherapy and a Masters in Neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy. He is a full member of the musculoskeletal association of chartered physiotherapists and previously served on the national executive committee as the communications officer and chair of the communications committee. Uzo is currently in his second year of a Masters of Science in Strength and conditioning.
