COURSE OUTLINE:

The close relationship between the low back and hip during functional and performance tasks is widely acknowledged. Although the value of movement is increasingly recognised as a tool to manage low back and hip presentations, the clinical picture can appear complex due to the number of different variables altering any individual’s movement patterns. Because everyone moves differently, how do we decide which particular movement has the greatest influence on a patient’s low back or hip problem?

The main focus of this course is to give clinicians the tools and enhanced skillset to use targeted movement retraining to change the mechanisms of movement control impairments related to pain, pathology, and compromised function of the low back and hip. The clinical value of this approach is to allow the building blocks of movement patterns to be assessed and retrained so as to manage complex and multi-factorial presentations.

Changing movement quality restores more optimal patterns of movement helping limit recurrence and supporting participation, performance, and quality of life. This course delivers a time efficient clinical framework that helps you change co-ordination strategies to optimise the health of your patient’s movement.

KEY FEATURES:

• Develop skills to successfully use clinical tools and a movement focused framework to change the mechanisms of movement impairment associated to the low back and hip;
• Achieve better outcomes in respect of recurrence and long-term health;
• Supplies a targeted movement retraining intervention allowing clinicians to be increasingly time efficient in addressing their patients’ impairments;
• Develops the clinicians’ abilities to change the building blocks of more complex movement patterns;
• Supplies therapists with the clinical reasoning and skillset to manage the complexities of low back and hip presentations;

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

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

• Evaluate and diagnose movement and identify client specific movement impairments;
• Deliver targeted movement retraining to alter the key mechanisms associated to their patients’ low back and hip 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;
• Identifies patients’ specific movement impairments influence upon their function and symptoms at the low back and hip;
• 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 impairments;
• The clinical presentation of movement control impairments of the low back and hip;

DAY ONE:

9.00 – 9.30: Why movement matters?

9.30 – 10.30: How impairments influence function and symptoms at the low back and hip. The Movement System and Clinical Reasoning.

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 low back.

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch.

13.30 – 15.00: Testing for movement control impairments of the low back 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 hip. Testing for movement control impairments of the hip 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 low back and hip.

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.