Syllabi

Faulty Movement Patterns: Assessment/Rehabilitation to Athletic Development

o  Functional Pathology of the Motor System

o  Faulty posture

o  Predictable muscle imbalances

o  Faulty movement patterns

o  Regional interdependence

o  Functional assessment

o  The Functional Screen – The Magnificent 7

1.  ROM

2.  T4 mobility

3.  Overhead squat

4.  1 leg stance balance

5.  1 leg squat

6.  Lunge

7.  Respiration

o  Clinical Audit Process

o  Activity Intolerances

o  Mechanical Sensitivities

o  Abnormal Motor Control

o  Sacred Cows

§  Sit-ups

§  Transverse abdominus

§  Prone superman

§  Trunk flexion

§  Hip press

o  Problem-Solving– The Magnificent 7

o  ROM – McKenzie, etc

o  T4-8 extension mobilizations

o  Squat/Hip Hinge

o  Balance/Foot

o  Single Leg Training

o  Lunge

o  Breathing Re-education

o  Functional Capacity Evaluation

o  Side Plank

o  Forward Plank

o  Trunk Flexion

o  Trunk Extension

o  1 leg standing balance

o  C0-C1 flexion coordination

o  The Pain Neuromatrix

o  Tissue vs Brain

o  Up-regulation vs Down-regulation

o  Inflammation vs sensitization

o  Adrenals/threat/cortisol

o  Myelination/Neural Adaptation

o  Prague School Tests

o  Diaphragm

o  IAP

o  Neck/Trunk Flexion

o  Arm Lifting

o  Hip Abduction

o  Vele’s forward inclination

o  Lunge Workshop

o  Assessment/tweaks w/ arms

o  Reverse lunges (step/slide)

o  Janda lunge

o  Psoas stretch

o  Anterior hip capsule mobilization

o  Expansion of brain receptor field for kinaesthetic reprogramming

o  Functional Integrated Core-Lower Quarter Workshop

o  Hamstring curls w/ ball

o  Janda’s trunk perturbations & Vele’s transverse arch facilitation

o  Vleeming’s SLR

o  IAP/Squat/Dying bug

o  Foam roll marching

o  Functional Integrated Core-Upper Quarter Workshop

o  Labral insufficiency & overhead tasks

o  Closed chain training

o  Wall angel slide

o  Kolar arm lift

o  Stir the pot

o  Stability ball roll out

o  Turkish get up

o  Horizontal pulls (pull downs/ horizontal row/ shoulder packing Y exercise)

o  Horizontal push

o  Lat stretches

o  T4-8 extension mobilization

o  Mid-back rotation

o  Core Stability in the Frontal Plane

o  1 leg squat

o  Hip abduction

o  Lateral band walk

o  Monster walk

o  Farmer’s walk

o  IT band foam roll

o  Sister Kenny gluteus medius facilitation

o  Vojta reflex locomotion

o  Lateral squats/1 leg hops/lateral jumps/lateral slides

o  Single Leg Training

o  1 leg squat

o  supported functional reach

o  inverted hamstring

o  1 leg dead lifts

o  balance reach

o  wall ball

o  1 leg box squat

o  pirformis/posterior hip capsule mobilization

o  ankle mobilization (leg swings)

o  Eccentric step training

o  1 leg hop/ X hop

o  Plyometrics

o  Increase power/speed/rate of force development

o  Squat jumps

o  Lunge jumps

o  Runner’s marches

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