KEY FEATURES:

• Develops skills to successfully apply clinical tools and a movement focused framework to change the mechanisms of movement impairment associated to the neck and shoulder;
• Supplies a highly individualised movement retraining intervention allowing clinicians to be increasingly time efficient in addressing their patients’ neck and shoulder and dysfunction;
• Develops clinicians’ abilities to change the building blocks of more complex movement patterns related to pain and dysfunction;
• Supplies clinicians with the reasoning and skillset to manage the complexities of neck and shoulder pain and dysfunction in the long-term;

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

At the end of this course the participant should be able to:

• Assess, analyse, and address client specific movement impairments;
• Deliver targeted movement retraining to alter the key mechanisms associated to their patients’ neck and shoulder pain or dysfunction;
• Operate within a structured clinical reasoning framework to help patients achieve their outcomes;
• Apply practical interventions derived from contemporary research underpinning the principles of movement evaluation and retraining decision making;

PROGRAMME OUTLINE:

• Explores the value of targeted movement retraining in managing complex and multi- factorial issues around the neck and shoulder;
• Identifies patients’ specific movement impairments influence upon their function and symptoms at the neck and shoulder;
• Presents the importance of identifying and retraining movement control impairments to improve patients’ quality of life;
• Explores the relationship between altered movement quality, pain, pathology, compromised function and the presence of restrictions;
• Practical workshops to enhance movement assessment and retraining proficiency within clinical environments;
• Practically applies principles of co-ordination efficiency and coordinative variability to target mechanisms associated with patients’ movement impairment;
• Presents the importance of identifying and retraining movement control;

DAY ONE:

9.00 – 9.30 Why movement matters.

9.30 – 10.30 How impairments influence function and symptoms at the neck and shoulder.

The relationship between restrictions and the control of movement.

10.30 -10.50 Coffee.

10.50 – 12.30 Principles of testing for movement control impairments and making a clinical diagnosis of loss of movement choices. The process of testing for movement control impairments. The clinical presentation of movement control impairments of the neck.

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch.

13.30 – 15.00: Testing for movement control impairments of the neck and establishing clinical subgrouping.

15.00 – 15.20: Tea.

15.20 – 17.00: Continue and targeted retraining.

DAY TWO:

9.00 – 10.30 The clinical presentation of movement control impairments of the shoulder girdle Testing for movement control impairments of the shoulder girdle and establishing clinical subgrouping.

10.30 – 10.50 Coffee.

10.50– 12.30 Principles of retraining optimal movement control and re-establishing movement health. Cognitive motor control retraining solutions for movement control impairments for the neck and shoulder.

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch.

13.30 – 15.00 Practical continues.

15.00 – 15.20 Tea.

15.30 – 16.00 /17.00 Matching movement retraining solutions to the client’s / patient’s goals and priorities.