ESSA Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function: Fresh Ideas for the Management of Osteoarthritis and Lower Extremity Replacements (8 hrs of credits)

ESSA 8 CPD points! Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function

Learn total joint surgical procedures and the most effective prehab/posthab exercises. Correct common muscle imbalances and improve gait in your clients with osteoarthritis or hip/knee replacements. Learn the "wrap your glut" stability exercise!

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function with Physiotherapists, Tera Mezynski and Kerry Carlson
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2. Disclaimer
1. Intro to Osteoarthritis
2. What is Osteoarthritis
3. Making a Plan for Clients with Osteoarthritis
1. Does Running Advance OA?
2. Running and Cartilage Wear
3. Kerry is Doing Her Slow Jog in Winter Boots!
4. Here is an infographic from the British Journal of Medicine on OA and Running
5. Exercise is MEDICINE!
6. Osteoarthritis and Inflammation
7. Helping Your Clients THRIVE with OA!
1. Alignment: Walls of the House
2. Alignment and Pelvis
3. Neutral Pelvis Cues
4. Alignment and Pelvis Continued
1. Setting the Core
2. Let's Set Your Core
3. Lower Glut Stability
4. Let's contract those lower gluts
1. Let's talk about hips
2. Hip Surgical Procedures
3. Total Hip Replacement Surgery
4. Hip Surgical Procedures Continued
1. Knee Surgical Procedures
2. Total Knee Replacement
3. Knee Surgical Procedures Continued
4. Surgical Revision
5. Importance of Pre-Hab
6. Knees are Nifty
1. The Hip
2. The Knee
3. Skate Skiing: A FANTASTIC Exercise for Hips and Knees!
1. Exercises for Optimizing Hip and Knee Part 1 Workshop
2. 1. Exercises
3. 2. Upper and Lower Gluts
4. Foundation Exercise. The Standing Weight Shift
5. 3. Standing Wall Hip Abduction
6. Standing Hip Abduction at the wall
7. Your Turn: Standing Hip Abduction
8. 4. Wall Isometric Hip Abduction Advanced
9. 5. Hip Extension in Standing
10. Standing hip extension video
11. 6. Sit to Stand
12. How Do You Stand Up?
13. Try the Variations!!
14. 7. Seated Hamstring Curl and Leg Extension
15. Quads at the Beach. Remember to stimulate that VMO!
16. 8. Leg Slides - Sideways and Backwards
17. Side leg slides! Hip hinge and knee alignment!
18. Backwards Leg Slides . Weight stays on front leg! Watch knee position.
19. 9. Side Stepping and Monster Walk
20. And let's do the Monster Walk!
21. 10. Bridging
22. Fundamentals of the basic bridge
23. Want to bridge on the dock? Remember to establish neutral pelvis first!
24. 11. Sidelying Hip Abduction
25. Side-Lying Hip Abduction at the wall.
26. 12. Clamshell
27. Clamshell with variations
28. Your Turn! Use a wall or just pay attention to your pelvis angle! Flashlight angled to the ground !!
29. 13. Forearm Plank
30. 14. Side Plank
31. Side plank video. Try all 3 levels!
32. 15. Forward Lunge Progression
33. Let's Lunge
34. 16. Side Lunge
35. Side Lunging. Compare your right and left sides! Bum back and watch knee position.
36. 17. Forward Step Up
37. Forward Step Up
38. Try it... Heel raise, Glut Squeeze and Lift - Can you lift the knee at the top and stabilize? Can you lower super slowly?
39. 18. Hip Hinge
40. 19. Dead lift
41. Hip Hinge into Supported Dead lift video... give it a try!
42. 20. Connecting the ankles to the hip neuromuscularly
43. Connecting to Gluts During Heel Raises
1. Let's Rank Glut Med and Max Exercises
2. Glut Medius Activation Worksheet
3. Glut Medius Activation Lowest to Highest
4. Demo of Glut Med exercises from lowest to highest activation (up until the top 5!)
5. Glut Medius: the top 5 exercises!
6. Gluteus Medius EMG ranking with 1 most activated fibers and 19 the least activated glut med
7. Rank Glut MAX Exercises - worksheet
8. Glut Max Activation
9. Demo of Glut Max Exercises #6-20 (20 is least activation)
10. Top 5 Glut Max Exercises!
11. Gluteus Maximus Activation with #1 most activated fibers and #20 least activated EMG
1. Quiz for Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function
1. You did it!!
2. References for this Presentation: Have a look at some of these terrific peer-reviewed publications!
3. Key Notes Handout for Your Future Reference

About this course

$325.00
8 hours content
Self Paced
Content available for 1 year

ESSA 8 CPD points! Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function

Course curriculum

Welcome to the course!

Module 1: What is Osteoarthritis?

Module 2: Osteoarthritis and Running and Walking

Module 3: Alignment and the Pelvis

Module 4: Setting the Core

Module 5: Surgical Procedures - Total Hip Replacement

Module 6: Surgical Procedures - Total Knee Replacement

Module 7: Hip and Knee Functional Anatomy/Physiology

Module 8: Exercises for Hip and Knee Stability

Module 9: Glut Medius and Maximus EMG Activation from Lowest to Highest from Reiman Systematic Review of EMG studies

Short Quiz

Final Chapter: Level One Hip and Knee

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