Sports Injury Prophylaxis, Rehabilitation & Performance Enhancement

Online 1-day seminar
Optimal movement necessitates optimal motor control. Optimal motor control is dependent upon motor automaticity, which is the ability to perform movements without directing attention toward the details of the movement. Compromised motor automaticity predisposes to injury, impaired athletic performance, and must be effectively restored during injury rehabilitation in order to reduce re-injury risk.
This seminar will discuss and demonstrate practical treatment, training and rehabilitation strategies for building motor automaticity. Specific topics will include enhancing sensorimotor processing, improving dynamic movement stabilisation and how to optimise motor learning. We will also explore the different facets of successful proprioceptive rehabilitation after sports injury, including the importance of restoring efficient central nervous system processing of proprioceptive information.
Furthermore, we will modify the strategies used to enhance sensorimotor processing and motor control in athletes and apply them to geriatric fall prevention.
This module is very practical-based and will give you additional clinical applications derived from the material presented in previous modules. That said, it is no problem to take this module if you haven’t attended previous seminars with us.
 
Course Content: 

Dynamic postural stabilisation: assessment of the systems involved & how to train them to function better
Neurological principles of motor control and motor learning
Cerebellar vs. cortical control of movement
The cerebellum in:

Predictive control of movement
Rapid motor adaptations
Motor timing & surround inhibition

The importance of proximal stabilisation and eccentric control
Implicit vs. explicit motor learning
Proprioceptive vs. visual sensory reliance
How to promote cerebellar control of movement for athletic performance, injury prevention and injury rehabilitation
Falls in the elderly: causes, prevention, and rehabilitation strategies
Components of proprioceptive rehabilitation
Restoring efficient central nervous system processing of proprioceptive information
Post-injury gamma gain deficits and strategies for their rehabilitation

 
Course Instructor:
Nicole Oliver, DC, MChiro, BSc(Hons), PgDip(MSK Neuroscience)
Nicole graduated from the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC) in 2005 and began studying functional neurology in 2006. She gained the Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Neurology Board (DACNB) qualification four years later. Alongside clinical practice she lectures for Neuroseminars, teaching functional neurology to chiropractors, osteopaths, physiotherapists and other health care professionals in the UK and Europe. Nicole has presented at several conferences and conventions, including the 2014 & 2016 European Chiropractors Union (ECU) Conventions, the 2019 World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) Congress, and at the annual or biannual conferences/ meetings of the Swiss, German, Norwegian, Belgian, Finnish, Swedish, Irish and Scottish national associations.
 
Registration fee:
£180 (GBP)/ €218 (EUR)