Exercise & Sports Science Australia
Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function: Fresh Ideas for Osteoarthritis and Lower Extremity Replacements
8 ESSA CPD Points
Feeling uncertain about how to best work with people who have hip or knee replacements or osteoarthritis? Learn the latest total joint surgical procedures and the most effective prehab/posthab exercises. Correct common muscle imbalances, prevent dislocations, and improve gait in your clients with osteoarthritis or hip/knee replacements. With 1 in 5 people living with osteoarthritis, find out how the right neuromuscular exercises can help this condition and even prevent surgery! Learn about the new core stability"wrap around your glut" technique!
Optimize shoulder function through precise movement mechanics, structural alignment, and scapular stability. This comprehensive course covers shoulder biomechanics and evidence-based exercise strategies to effectively assess, rehabilitate, and prevent common pathologies—including impingement, rotator cuff tears, bursitis, adhesive capsulitis, and dislocations.
What You'll Learn:
Key shoulder anatomy and scapulothoracic kinematics
Targeted exercise protocols for injury prevention and rehab
Movement strategies to restore stability and peak performance
Upgrade your clinical expertise on the body's most dynamic joint
Optimizing our foot and ankle function is ESSENTIAL to alignment, stability and propulsion. Find out how to activate the "foot core" and all about foot intrinsics. Help your clients reduce lower extremity injuries, improve gait and overall athletic performance. Feet at the foundation of the kinetic chain. Who knew there was SO much to learn about our feet?
All courses listed below are eligible for CDP Points
*Claim under "Industry professional development (non-ESSA)"*
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Optimizing Women's Health: From Puberty to Post-Menopause
(16 hours) Women are not small men. Understand the physiological shifts from puberty to post-menopause to design evidence-based exercise interventions to help your female clients. Learn how need to move past toning and towards loading and lifting. Move beyond "kegels" to integrate pelvic health into functional strength and conditioning. |
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Optimizing the Older Adult (16 hours) Do you want to feel confident when working with the 55+ population? Learn about what influences aging and how increasing age affects a person physically, cognitively and mentally. This course covers a variety of chronic health conditions (respiratory, cardiac, neurological, diabetes, dementia, cancer). Discover key components for exercise programs for the healthy older adult and the older adult with multiple health concerns. We need to work "upstream" to help this client population to stay out of the hospital and THRIVE! Become an expert in the older adult population, expand your clientele reach and help them to lead their best lives. |
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Optimizing the Kinetic Chain (8 hours) Discover how structural alignment impacts whole-body performance and injury prevention. This self-paced, 8-hour course explores how forces transfer dynamically along the kinetic chain—from the feet upward. Learn to identify common postural dysfunctions and implement targeted exercise strategies to enhance your clients' dynamic stability, strength, and athletic movement. Course Highlights: Lower-to-Upper Kinematics: How foot and ankle mechanics drive up-chain alignment Postural Dysfunctions: Assessment and intervention for common mvmt imbalance Performance & Stability: Evidence-based protocols to build dynamic control and athletic strength |
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Finding Balance: Dual Task, Cognition and Vestibular Exercise Workshop (8 hours) Learn the latest research on how best to incorporate thinking, vestibular, and dual tasks into your exercises to improve balance and selective attention. What is vertigo and how can you recognize it? Help your clients reduce risk of falling and improve function in the real world. All participants leave with a toolbox full of activities they can implement immediately into their practice (1:1, small group, and larger classes) |
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Part 2: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function: Taking it to the next level. *must complete Part 1 to attend Part 2 (7 hours) Learn how to help your clients' achieve their life goals and effectively return to sport and work post joint replacement. Many in the younger population are undergoing joint replacement surgery and they have ambitious goals to live life to the fullest. This workshop covers post op musculoskeletal complications, return to work and sport exercises, targeted stretching and gait analysis and tips relevant to this active population. |
Gait: The Crucial Step
(4 hours)
Gait analysis is a step we often skip with clients but it is the key to full functional recovery from injury or surgery. Learn how to quickly assess gait errors and correct in one session! Watch your clients return to their active lives!
