This is an advanced course designed to provide clinicians the ability to actively review current updates in literature relative to shoulder and upper quarter biomechanics, rehabilitation techniques, efficacy of treatment options, functional outcome measures and return to work and sport progressions. Each participant should have previously successfully completed an upper quarter course relative to anatomy, biomechanics, pathomechanics, evaluation, differential diagnosis and treatment options. This course will review the science of evidence based upper quarter rehabilitation including functional anatomy review, biomechanics, evidence based exercises, functional rehabilitation, outcome measures, and throwing programs for return to sports. The participants will become efficient and confident in performing an upper quarter screen to determine impairments, differential diagnosis, identify faulty scapulothoracic mechanics contributing to common injuries, faulty movement/throwing patterns and how to correct for injury prevention and improved performance. Upon completion of this course, clinicians should be able to clinically reason how best to progress your patients based on tissue healing and physiological adaptation, and be able to integrate the principles of injury prevention & sports performance programs to fully rehabilitate their patients and clients for return to higher function, life, work and sport.
Course Level: Advanced
Prerequisites: NA
Audience: PT/OT/ATC/PTA/OTA
Contact Hrs: 16 Live
Instructor: Bill Johnson
