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What is the Prague School?
The Prague School of Rehabilitation and Manual Medicine was established by influential neurologists and physiatrists, including Professors Vladimir Janda, Karel Lewit, Frantisek Vele, and Vaclav Vojta. The Prague School emphasizes neurodevelopmental aspects of motor control in order to assess and restore dysfunction of the locomotor system and associated syndromes.
Dr. Craig Liebenson’s Prague School to Athletic Development Series
Dr. Craig Liebenson’s Prague School to Athletic Development (PS2AD) series translates his knowledge of the Prague School’s philosophies and his notable clinical experience into a comprehensive knowledge- and skill-based seminar for health care practitioners.
This series consists of interactive, problem-solving workshops where you learn how to efficiently focus on reversible functional pathologies of the motor system, find the source of pain, improve function, enhance durability and performance, increase self-efficacy and achieve patient and athlete-centered results.
The PS2AD series will challenge the following paradigms:
- Symptom-based to a focus on the source of pain in the kinetic chain
- Passive to active rehabilitation (i.e., self-care oriented)
- Clinician-centered to patient/athlete-centered
- Output-based to outcome-based
- Hardware (i.e., structural) to software (i.e., functional)
PS2AD (Part B) Topics Covered
Rehabilitation of the Athlete: From the ground up
- Functional Integrated Training of the core, with extremities
- The stability-power continuum and safe return to activity/sport
- How to achieve residual adaptation and skill transfer
- Reactive training, external versus internal cues, high versus low threshold strategies, programming -- high intensity versus low intensity days
- Gravity, workplace design flaws and training myths: A postural conspiracy
- The overhead athlete: Should they crawl before they throw?
- The challenging pain patient: Inflammation versus sensitization -- The pain neuromatrix
The Continuum of Care: Stability to performance from head to toe
- The core slings: Sagittal, frontal and transverse planes
- Posterior chain activation: Core-lower quarter functional training
- Frontal plane stability/power
- Orofacial dysfunction
- Cervical-cranial dysfunction
- The sternal "crunch" and "packing" your neck
- The T4 "dead zone"
- The hip-shoulder kinetic chain and scapular dyskinesis
- Chops and lifts: The core-upper quarter connection
- Rehabilitation of sports injuries of the lower quarter
- Hip-knee connection: Where frontal and transverse planes meet
- The hamstring dilemma
- ACL injuries in females: What have we learned?
- Preventing medial knee collapse
- Foot-ankle stability and the "dead foot"
- Indications for each corrective exercise
About Dr. Craig Liebenson
Dr. Craig Liebenson is the founder and director of the L.A. Sports and Spine Center (LASS), which provides interdisciplinary care in a patient/athlete-centered manner, working with clinicians and fitness professionals to speed recovery and enhance athleticism. Dr. Liebenson continues to see patients at LASS, where he provides rehabilitation/recovery and athletic development services. He worked as team chiropractor for the NBA Los Angeles Clippers from 2005 to 2009 and has also worked with athletes – professional and amateur – from a wide variety of sports. Dr. Liebenson was the first chiropractor to sit on the Board of Directors for The McKenzie Institute®, USA, and was the first health care provider in California to receive recognition status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Back Pain Recognition Program – a program that recognizes physicians and chiropractors who deliver superior care to millions of Americans who suffer from low back pain.
Dr. Liebenson is the author and editor of Rehabilitation of the Spine: A Practitioner's Manual, 2nd ed. (2007) and the Functional Training Handbook (2014). He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation; Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation’s Journal of Injury, Function and Rehabilitation; Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies; and Manual Therapy; and is actively engaged in ongoing research on spine stabilization as a Visiting Scholar in Dr. Stuart McGill's Spine Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Liebenson has served as Adjunct Professor in the School of Health Professions (Chiropractic Discipline), Murdoch University, Perth, Australia and consulted for Murdoch University and the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC) Masters in Chiropractic degree programs.
