KEY FEATURES:

• Enhances ability to assess and retrain muscle synergies associated to pain, pathology, and compromised function of the low back and hip;
• Develops clinicians’ cueing and facilitation skillset to positively impact movement impairments attributable to altered muscle synergies;
• Supplies clinical skills to give patients strategies to reduce recurrence and maintain function;
• Gives therapists the skills, tools, and understanding to choose movement assessment and retraining as the clinical intervention of choice;

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

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

• Demonstrate the skills allowing them to change patients’ movement through the assessment and retraining of muscle synergies;
• Relate muscle synergy recruitment patterns to pain, recurrence, and compromised function;
• Demonstrate an ability to assess and retrain muscle synergy efficiency;
• Demonstrate the ability to assess for loss of extensibility and aberrant recruitment substitutions of dominant synergists;
• Display options for movement retraining in addition to acquiring the ability to match the level of retraining to your patient’s abilities and goals;
• Operate within a structured clinical reasoning framework to help patients achieve their outcomes;

PROGRAMME OUTLINE:

• Practical workshops to enhance movement assessment and retraining proficiency within clinical environments: to include global stabiliser role muscles – oblique abdominals, multifidus, and spinalis, gluteus maximus, medius and minimus, iliacus, psoas, short adductors. Global mobiliser role muscles – rectus abdominis, quadratus lumborum, erector spinae, latissimus, hamstrings, superficial gluteus maximus, tensor fascia lata, rectus femoris, sartorius, gracilis, and adductor longus;
• Practically applies principles of muscle synergy management to target mechanisms associated with patients’ movement impairments;
• Supplies clinical relevance to the functional roles of muscle synergies;
• Explores the relationship between muscle synergies and the presence of pain, pathology, and compromised function;
• Supplies clinical value to the analysis and management of restriction and movement impairments;
• Presents multi-factorial rating criteria to assess efficiency of muscle synergies;
• Presents multi-factorial muscle synergy classification model to support clinical reasoning and intervention;
• Retraining options and progressions for global stabiliser retraining at the low back and hip;
• Cognitive recruitment efficiency solutions for movement control impairments of the low back and hip;
• Matching recruitment efficiency retraining to the client’s / patient’s goals;

DAY ONE:

9.00 – 10.30: Muscle synergies, motor abundance, & Movement Health.

10.30 -10.50: Coffee.

10.50 – 12.30: Muscle Function Review & Compromised Synergy Efficiency: Assessing the efficiency of the global stabilizer role muscles – theory & practical.

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch.

13.30 – 15.00: Muscle specific assessment and retraining of the global stabiliser role muscles.

15.00 – 15.20: Tea.

15.20 – 17.00: Continue.

DAY TWO:

9.00 – 10.30: Muscle specific assessment and retraining of the global stabilizer role muscles.

10.30 – 10.50: Coffee.

10.50– 12.30: Assessing the efficiency of the global mobiliser role muscles – theory & practical.

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch.

13.30 – 15.00: Cognitive Motor Control Retraining.

15.00 – 15.20: Tea.

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