Optimizing Foot and Ankle Function: The Foot Core (12 hrs)

In this engaging 12 hour course, learn how our feet and ankles are key to alignment, stability, and propulsion. Find out how to activate the "foot core" and all about foot intrinsics. Optimize your clients foot foundation and they will succeed!

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Course curriculum

1. Introduction to Optimizing Foot and Ankle Function
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2. Meet Tera and Kerry
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3. Course Disclaimer
1. Fun Facts About Feet
2. What's Neat About Feet
3. Range of Motion of Foot and Ankle
4. Foot Rocker in Sitting and Standing -- here's a handy little device we have in our physio gym to increase dorsi and plantar flexion
5. Pronation and Supination
6. Range, Position, Alignment
7. Genetic Involvement and the need for Referral to the Health Care Team
1. Bones of the Foot
2. Bones
3. Ligaments of the Foot and Ankle
4. Ligaments
5. Joints
6. Plantar Fascia in Kal Park
7. Fascia
8. Foot warm up and toe ROM
1. Intro Module 3
2. Extrinsic Muscles of Lower Leg
3. Peroneus versus Fibularis
4. Extrinsic Muscles of Ankle and Foot
5. The basics: Strengthen eversion, inversion, DF and PF
6. The basics: Lower leg stretching
1. Anatomy of Intrinsics: 4 Layers
2. Module 4: Intrinsic Foot
3. Great Strength Class but No Foot Exercises
4. Welcome to the Sky Yoga Studio
1. Intro Module 5
2. Intrinsics and Extrinsics work together
3. NBA players train intrinsics and extrinsics too!
4. Intrinsics and Extrinsics Together
5. Overpronation - Extrinsics compensate
6. Evolution of the Foot
7. Evolution of the Foot and Arch
1. Pulling it All Together in Gait
2. Our Neuro Rehab Unit Where We Work On Gait!
3. 6.0 The Active Foot and Gait
4. Foot Core on Trail
5. 6.1 Early Stance, Mid-Stance, and Terminal Stance
6. Running Explained
7. 6.2 The Active Foot and Running
8. Foot Core
9. 6.3 The Foot Core
10. The Passive Subsystem
11. The Passive Subsytem explained
12. 6.4 Neural, Passive, and Active Subsystems of Foot
13. The Neural Subsystem on the Beach
1. Teaching how to train Intrinsics is nothing to fear!
2. Why train intrinsics
3. Why train intrinsics? A refresher!
4. Research behind the training
5. Toe Spreader Exercise
6. Toe spreader
7. Toe Spreaders
8. Toe Mobility
9. Toe Mobility - Big Toe Up, Other 4 Toes Up
10. Big Toe Up and 4 Toes up with Functional Movements
11. Short Foot Exercise
12. Short Foot Exercise - Let's Learn How to Dome
13. Doming Technique and Errors
14. Foot Core Exercise
15. To toe curl or not. What about PF?
16. Short Foot Exercise in Plantarflexion in Standing
1. Training Volume Recipes
2. Foot Intrinsic Training Recipe
3. Fan Tan Alley Foot Talk
1. Welcome to Foot Strengthening and the Athlete
2. Puppy in the Snow Mini Brain Break
3. Foot Strengthening and the Athlete
4. SFE with cross body activation
5. SFE during propulsion or high lunge
6. Tandem and Star Excursion
7. Star Excursion as an Exercise
1. Older Adults and Foot Intrinsics
2. Older Adults and Foot Core
1. Swiss ball bridge with hamstring curl
2. SFE with sit to stand
3. SFE with Functional Exercise
4. SFE with higher level exercise
5. SFE with lateral weight shift
6. SFE with forward and backward lunge
7. SFE with march and around the world
8. PF with knee drop for feet, hips, core
9. Sumo squats with heel raises
10. Standing Split Squat with Heel Raise
11. Lunge with shoulder extension - kinetic chain - on unstable surface
1. Welcome to Outcome Measures. Let's Celebrate!
2. Outcome Measures - Single Leg Stance
3. Single Leg Stance
4. Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT)
5. Time to do it! SEBT Outcome Measure
6. Functional Movement Screen
7. Functional Movement Screen (FMS) : 7 exercises
8. Functional Movement Screen Overview with Jordyn.
9. Time to Stabilization
10. Time to stabilization from Step Jump
11. Time to Stabilization Variations with Avery
12. Subjective Outcome Measures
1. Welcome to Module 13
2. Foot Alignment with Knee OA
3. Knee Hindfoot Angle Summary
4. Taking a closer look at hindfoot angles - valgus (everted) and varus (inverted)
5. TKR Goal
6. TKR and Foot Alignment
7. Orthotics
1. Welcome to Foot Injuries in the Rainforest!
2. Forefoot Injuries: Bunions and Hammertoes
3. Forefoot Injuries: Turf Toe, Morton's Neuroma and Gout
4. Forefoot Injuries: OA, RA, and Fractures
5. Midfoot
6. Midfoot Injuries
7. Hindfoot Injuries
8. Hindfoot Injuries
9. Talus and Calcaneus Fractures
10. Plantar Massage TERA
11. Plantar Fascitis
12. Myofascial Release of Plantar Foot Fascia and Arches
13. The Diabetic Foot
14. An Alternative Activity If You Injure Your Foot and Ankle!
1. Module 15: Ankle Injuries on a Windy Night
2. Arthritis and Fractures
3. Tendinopathies
4. Tendinopathies
5. Other Tendinopathies
6. Other Tendinopathies
1. Ankle sprains and CAI
2. Ankle Sprains
3. Chronic ankle instability
4. Proprioception and the Foot/Ankle
5. Balance Pods and Proprioception
1. It is all a kinetic chain. View it all!
2. The foot influences the chain and injuries superior to it
1. Houses Balancing on a Pier
2. Balance
3. Had to Wake Up My Balance Receptors Before Heading Out on the Running Trail!
4. Mechanoreceptors: Get Out of Your Shoes!
5. Proprioceptors Muscle Spindles Golgi Tendons
6. Playing in the Physio Gym
7. Trampoline 1: hip hinge, squat, DF/PF
8. Trampoline 2: Balance
9. Trampoline 3- jumping partial squats
10. Trampoline - singe leg hip hinge
11. Use Equipment and Challenge your Balance
12. Agility Ladder
13. Jumps, Hops, and Uneven Ground
14. Like a Ballerina: Why We Need to Add Toe Stance, Toe Walking, and Toe Hopping to Our Programs
15. Join Me in Walking On Our Toes to Fire Up Our Plantar Intrinsics After We Are Finished Foot Doming
16. Research Study: Plantar Intrinsics VS Functional Exercises
17. Why Is It Good To Get Up On Our Toes?
18. So Many Types of Running Shoes!
19. Barefoot Training Or Not?
20. Gratitude to Yoga
1. Taping verus Bracing
2. Pros and Cons of Taping versus Bracing
3. Let's check out 1 way to tape the ankle
1. Foot and Ankle Review
2. Email us for Certificate
3. Great Job!!

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Optimizing Foot and Ankle Function: The Foot Core (12 hrs)

Course curriculum

Introduction

Module 1: What's Neat about Feet

Module 2: Functional Anatomy of the Foot and Ankle

Module 3: Extrinsic Muscles of the Foot and Ankle

Module 4: Anatomy of Intrinsics: 4 layers

Module 5: The Functional Foot - Intrinsics and Extrinsics Together and Evolution of the Foot

Module 6: The Active Foot and Gait

Module 7: Intrinsic Foot Training- Set the Foot Core

Module 8: IFM Training Volume Recipe

Module 9: Foot Strengthening in the Athlete

Module 10: What About Older Adults and Intrinsics?

Module 11: Functional Exercises and Higher Level Training for Feet and Ankles

Module 12: Outcome Measures

Module 13: Foot Alignment with Knee OA and TKR

Module 14: Foot Injuries

Module 15: Ankle Injuries (excluding sprains)

Module 16: Ankle Sprains

Module 17: How the Foot Influences Above It

Module 18: It is All About Balance

Module 19: Taping and Bracing

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