Learning Objectives

Learn how to:

• Avoid cookie cutters & protocols by developing a client-centered reasoning process
• Connect the dots from a person’s story to you’re plan 
• Prepare people for Return to Participation, Play and Performance
• Assess “yellow flags” of over-protection
  • Belief that a person needs a “fix it” approach
  • Belief that hurt=harm & physical activity is dangerous
  • Lack of confidence &/or commitment to perform self-care independently
• Assess load or under-preparation
• Identify activity intolerances and a person’s floor current capacity and ceiling required capacity for their demands
• Create relatedness through motivational interviewing
• Perform a six-part movement prep to assess baseline movement competency and pain tolerance
  • Sensory-afferent input via the foot
  • Physiologic “warm-up (heart rate, core body temperature, high-threshold breathing)
  • Active mobility (hip, shoulder, t-spine, foot/ankle)
  • Pillar prep (posterior chain & kinetic chain force transfer via the torso)
  • Special “correctives”
  • Energy storage & release (i.e. springs & shocks)
• Gamify constraints-based motor learning (internal vs external cues, problem-solving)
• Record baseline floor issues distinguishing acceptable vs unacceptable dysfunction as a springboard to measurable & impactful interventions
• Provide a positive experience with movement to increase tolerance & de-sensitize painful movementsReassurance & Reactivation for gradual exposures to feared stimuli
• Find the “hardest thing a person does well” related to their goals/demands by slow-cooking adaptation

What you will learn:

How the inactivity crisis is leading to a disability epidemic and an increasing gap between biological age & chronological age

• How the inactivity crisis is leading to a disability epidemic and an increasing gap between biological age and chronological age
• Four principles to use as a GPS in finding “Plan B” for rehab & training
  • Reassurance
  • Reactivation
  • Resilience
  • Risk Management (Variability)
• How to bridge the gap from
  • Science to the trenches (knowledge translation)
  • Rehab to training
  • Physical activity & bodyweight exercise to load
  • Current capacity shortfall (e.g.floor) to required capacity (e.g. ceiling or demands)
• How musculoskeletal pain is a “Gift of Injury” allowing us to promote lifestyle behavior modification that can manage Non-communicable disease (NCD) risk.
• How “vested interests” and the status quo bias promotes over-detection (e.g. nocebos), over-diagnosis (tests w/ high false + rates), and over-treatment (surgery, injections, opiates, NSAIDs, passive therapies, “corrective exercise” purgatory)
• The Precision Profile documentation system for client-centered programming
• How movement preparation is the prerequisite for athletic development and general physical preparation  (GPP)
• The continuum from Preparation or readiness to Training to Recovery
• How to give tangible hope and an achievable plan through a positive experience with movement