Lower Limb Injury Screening and Rehabilitation in Athletes

Lower Limb Injury Screening and Rehabilitation in Athletes

Movement screening is much simpler than we think it is! Efficient testing is devoid of gimmicky tricks or techniques. It is, on the contrary, basic, and straightforward. Take lower limb sports injuries for example. Though they might seem rather complex and intimidating to deal with, they become much easier to tackle once they are broken down into smaller problems. It’s always brilliant to have a system that anyone can follow – a system that aids one to come up with appropriately individualized exercise plans, away from the “one-size-fits-all” exercise prescriptions that, often, lack sound clinical reasoning.

Lower Limb Injury Screening and Rehabilitation in Athletes is a course for every Physiotherapist aiming to enhance his/her screening, prevention, and rehabilitation skills. Assessing an athlete’s lower limb using basic by following straightforward and logical clinical frameworks and making the athlete independent by teaching him/her how to track their own progress and thus feeding into their biopsychosocial wellness.

Tutor

Steve Sparks

1st Team Physiotherapist - Movement & Injury Prevention at the English Premier League

Steve’s completed a Sport & Exercise Science degree from the University of Bath, further completing a degree in Physiotherapy from the University of Southampton and an MSc in Physiotherapy from the University of Keele.

Although acknowledging the need to manage the individual with movement interventions as a whole, his experience in professional football has seen Steve develop a specialist interest in hip and groin movement and rehabilitation. Illustrating a particular focus on the structure and function of the adductor magnus, he presented a hugely well-received masterclass at Movement Performance Solutions’ first International Movement Conference in 2018, exploring the application of movement in the return to play story for elite athletes. Steve delivers both KC and TPM routes of education, allowing him to share his insight and expertise with a wide range of movement focussed professionals.

Previous intake of this course

Aims and outcomes:

Application of Kinetic Control clinical reasoning framework and principles to increase player availability.
Identification and rating of movement pattern risk factors to reduce injury burden.
Providing the audience with clinical tips to maximize the screening and rehab outcomes.
Finally, getting inspired by learning the keys to excellence in the rehab field at the hand of one of the experts in the field.