Primitive Reflexes influencing Movement & Motor Control:
Assessment and Rehabilitation
This course is suitable for orthopaedic, paediatric and neurological physiotherapists
Sean Gibbons
BSc. (Hons) P.T., MSc. Ergonomics, PhD (c), MCPA
“You may never find another treatment that will influence your career as much as primitive reflex inhibition”
“How do you think we first move in the first place – primitive reflexes”
Course Description
Primitive reflexes (PR) are brain stem-mediated, complex automatic movement patterns that commence in utero. If PR persist beyond their average lifespan they may begin to interfere with proper CNS development and could indicate neurological impairment. The presence of PR will influence motor control and may indicate altered CNS neurocognitive processing. The presence of significant PR can interfere with normal rehabilitation.
A sub group of patients have difficulty understanding the exercises or education we give them. These patients have significant deficits in sensory motor function, learning skills, and have primitive reflexes in the nervous system. Research shows that there is a strong relationship between sensory motor function, presence of primitive reflexes and neurocognitive function.
During this two day course we will cover the assessment and rehabilitation of primitive reflexes in detail. Strategies for treatment in the clinic and home exercise will be discussed. The Motor Control Abilities Questionnaire is an instrument developed to identify patients who have difficulty understanding stability and movement control exercises. The use of this questionnaire will be described and how primitive reflex inhibition can be used to improve neurocognitive function and motor control.
This is an evidence based course. Several clinical studies of varying levels of evidence support the use of primitive reflex inhibition to improve neurocognitive function, reduce pain and disability and learn specific motor control exercise.
Use primitive Reflex inhibition to
● Rehab motor morons
● Help regular clients move better and perform
motor control exercises more efficiently
● Normalize central pain
● Facilitate better movement in neurological
patients
Course Objectives
The participant will be equipped to:
● Identify clients who will unlikely learn or
progress with specific stability exercises
● Understand the role of primitive reflexes in
pain, cognitive function and motor control.
● Assess and rehabilitate primitive reflexes in
children and adults
● Implement a home exercise program for
primitive reflex inhibition
● Use primitive reflex inhibition strategies to
improve motor control, sensory function &
pain
Facilitator
Sean Gibbons graduated from Manchester University in the UK in 1995. He shares his time between clinical practice, teaching and is pursuing his PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland. It involves the inter-relationship between, psychosocial factors, motor control, neurocognitive function, sensory motor function and outcome. His research has definite clinical implications for the management of musculoskeletal dysfunction. The development of the Motor Control Abilities Questionnaire identifies clients who will unlikely do well with specific motor control rehabilitation and identifies alternative rehabilitation options to improve motor control and neurocognitive function. His dissection and research has provided new insight into muscle function and prompted research into the field. Specific muscles have included psoas major, gluteus maximus and upper trapezius. This has lead to the development of new rehabilitation protocols for several muscles. He has presented his research at national and international conferences and has several journal publications on related topics.
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Course Fee: $425
10% discount for:
New Physio grads 2011/12;
3 or more registrants from same company.
(Must register together as a group at the same time)
Date: March 2-3, 2013
Time: Sat 8:30a.m. – 5:00p.m.
Sun 8:00a.m. – 3:00p.m
Registration Deadline: Feb 21, 2012
Course Organizer: For more info contact Eddy Betinol @ 250 331 1200 or email:
www.thejointphysio.com
Location: Courtenay
The Joint Physiotherapy + Sports Injury Centre
Unit D 310 8th St
Courtenay, BC
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Unit D 310 8th St
Courtenay, BC V9N 1N3
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Pre-requisite: Sub-classification course: not mandatory but recommended.
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What will you get from this course that you may not already have?
Primitive reflexes
Understand the role of primitive reflexes in pain, cognitive function and motor control. They have a huge influence on correcting movement, rehab strategies and learning skills. This also applies to neurological rehab.
Neurodevelopmental Process
The neurodevelopmental process can be used for rehabilitation of orthopaedic patients, neurological rehab of adults and children, as well as central pain and balance retraining.
CNS Coordination – A New Sub-Classification
Our clinical reasoning promotes a diagnosis of movement function, tissue, pain mechanisms and CNS Coordination. The latter represents a new, but significant sub-classification, which represents the cognitive and motor functions of the CNS.
Motor Control Ability Screening
What about the people who can`t seem to learn the exercises we teach them? You will learn how to use the Motor Control Abilities Questionnaire to screen people for the ability to learn specific motor control exercises. You will learn alternative treatment options to rehabilitate this problem population.
Learning Difficulties
Appreciate the importance of cognitive based learning skills in rehabilitation.
Motor Control Problem Solving
Problem solving with some clients can be difficult. We have developed a Universal Problem Solving Model of Motor Control to help you make exercises easier or harder. We have to give people exercises they can do, not ones they can’t.
Improve Motor Control
Learn how to use primitive reflex inhibition to reduce tone and muscle tightness, improve movement and coordination.
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