**PLEASE NOTE: THE ABOVE TICKET PRICES ARE IN CANADIAN DOLLARS AND DO NOT INCLUDE TICKETLEAP'S PROCESSING FEE**
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- Update delegates on the most recent developments in clinical biomechanics of the lumbar spine – how it works and becomes injured. This is to support an evidence-informed approach to clinical decision-making
Provide guidance in the application of this foundation of knowledge to the clinic, workplace, rehabilitation centre, and training facility. This is to reduce the risk of injury, optimize health outcomes, and enhance performance.
- Enhance skill and technique in client assessment and corrective/therapeutic and performance-enhancing exercise prescription
COURSE OUTLINE:
DAY 1
- Building the foundation reviews and builds on the scientific foundation of lumbar spine function and mechanisms of injury, which enables you to parse science from myth. Anatomical, biomechanical, and motor control perspectives are provided to support an evidence-informed clinical approach. The postures, movements, and loads of the lumbar spine that cause pain and injury, and make them worse, are key components discussed. Lecture
Interpreting patient presentation (part 1) enhances your ability to identify aberrant movement patterns and accurately interpret provocative tests by considering the foundational perspectives. Lecture
- Focus group. Participate in an open-forum group discussion where delegates can share their experiences as health care practitioners, identify and address the challenges of keeping up-to-date with current research developments relevant to their practice, and provide insight on how they would like to collaborate with researchers in the future. RED will facilitate this group discussion. Interactive group discussion
DAY 2
- Interpreting patient presentation (part 2) enhances your ability to identify aberrant movement patterns and accurately interpret provocative tests by considering the foundational perspectives. Practical
Preventing and rehabilitating low back disorders integrates the elements of the scientific foundation and patient presentation into practical clinical tools. These clinical strategies will optimize rehabilitation programs – introducing ways to remove the cause of back pain and progressions of corrective exercise therapies. Spine loads, muscle activation patterns, and spine stability influence these low back pain prevention and rehabilitation techniques. Lecture and practical
- Training and performance. After establishing optimal movement patterns, advanced progressions from stability to endurance to strength, speed, power, and agility are provided from Dr. McGill’s work with professional athletes. Lecture and practical
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Stuart McGill is a Professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada) and the author of over 300 scientific publications and 3 textbooks that address issues such as lumbar spine function and injury mechanisms, patient assessment, corrective exercise prescription, and performance training. He has been featured in the popular press, including The New York Times, Maclean’s Magazine, and Testosterone Nation. Dr. McGill consults for many medical management groups, governments, corporations, legal firms, and elite sports teams and athletes from around the world and has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Volvo Bioengineering Award for Low Back Pain Research. Dr. McGill is one of few scientists who are regularly referred challenging patients for consult from around the world. Please visit www.backfitpro.com for more information.
Dr. McGill’s textbooks, Low Back Disorders: Evidence-based prevention and rehabilitation (2007) and Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance (2004) and DVDs, The Ultimate Back: Assessment and therapeutic exercise (2007) and The Ultimate Back: Enhancing performance (2010) will be available for purchase at a discounted rate at the course. These books synthesize the material presented in this course and are recommended as resource material for interested delegates.
