DAY 1 – SHOULDER
PREVENTION EXAM
- Postural positioning of the head and scapula
- Impingement exam
- Neer
- Hawkins/Kennedy
- Crossover
- Ergonomic accommodations to decrease impingement
- HANDS-ON LAB
ANATOMICAL AND BASIC BIOMECHANICS
- Anatomy of the Shoulder
- Anatomy review of joint structure
- Surgical procedure videos
MEDICAL DIAGNOSES AND SURGICAL INTERVENTION
- Comparative normal versus diagnostic imaging (X-ray, MRI)
- Shoulder RTC tears
- Shoulder labral defects
- Shoulder Fx
- Total shoulder replacement: anatomical and reverse
- HANDS-ON LAB
CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
- Correlate mechanism of injury
- Damage exam
- RTC
- Glenoid labrum
- Biceps long head
- HANDS-ON LAB
INJURY PREVENTION AND DEVELOPING A JOINT-SPECIFIC TREATMENT PLAN
- Establish proximal scapular stability progress to distal mobility
- Progression:
- Flexibility considerations
- Manual scapular stabilization exercises
- RTC manual ex with scapular integration
- Dynamic distal stabilization exercises
- Home exercise with resistance band
- HANDS-ON LAB
DAY 2 – HIP AND KNEE
PREVENTION EXAM
- HIP: Posture of the pelvis sagittal/frontal plane
- Predisposing elements
- Glut medius weakness
- IT band test (Ober’s)
- Hip flexor (Yeomans’s, ELY)
- Hamstrings (SLR)
- HANDS-ON LAB
- KNEE: Dynamic positioning in movement
- Dynamic Valgus
- Ligament dominance
- Quad dominance
- Leg dominance
- Ankle position/foot wear
- HANDS-ON LAB
ANATOMICAL AND BASIC BIOMECHANICS
- Anatomy of the hip/knee
- Anatomy review of each joint structure
- Surgical procedure videos
MEDICAL DIAGNOSES AND SURGICAL INTERVENTION
- HIP: Comparative normal versus diagnostic imaging (X-ray, MRI)
- Acetabular labral defects
- Hip fracture
- Total hip replacement (approaches: posterior, lateral, anterior)
- KNEE: Comparative normal versus diagnostic imaging (X-ray, MRI)
- Meniscal Injury (menisectomy vs repair)
- Osteochondral defect
- ACL repair (Hamstring vs Patellar Tendon)
- Total Knee replacement (Traditional, Subvastus, Bipolar, Unipolar, Custom fit)
CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
- HIP: Correlate mechanism of injury
- Tissue exam
- Piriformis
- Faber
- Hip Scour
- HANDS-ON LAB
- KNEE: Correlate mechanism of injury
- Tissue exam
- Ligament Medial-Lateral
- Ligament Anterior-Posterior
- Meniscal damage
- HANDS-ON LAB
INJURY PREVENTION AND DEVELOPING A JOINT-SPECIFIC TREATMENT PLAN
- HIP: Balance weakness and flexibility
- Flexibility considerations
- Proximal closed chain stability exercises
- Hip and core exercises
- Home exercises for dynamic functional integration
- HANDS-ON LAB
- KNEE: Incorporate Neuromuscular (N-M) retraining
- Flexibility considerations
- Functional closed chain exercises
- Address ligament/muscular dominance
- Sensory integration in balance progression
- N-M integration in jump mechanics
- Home exercises for dynamic functional integration
- Advanced plyometric training for the LE
- HANDS-ON LAB