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

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
1. Does Running Advance OA?
2. Running and Cartilage Wear
3. Kerry is Doing Her Slow Jog in Winter Boots!
4. Here is a recent infografic from the British Journal of Medicine on OA and Running
5. Exercise is MEDICINE!
6. 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 your Lower Gluts!
1. Hip Surgical Procedures
2. Total Hip Replacement Surgery
3. 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. 3. Wall Isometric Hip Abduction Advanced
5. Standing Hip Abduction Video
6. 4. Standing Wall Hip Abduction
7. Your Turn: Standing Hip Abduction
8. 5. Hip Extension in Standing
9. Standing hip extension video
10. 6. Sit to Stand
11. Try the Variations!!
12. 7. Seated Hamstring Curl and Leg Extension
13. Quads at the Beach. Remember to stimulate that VMO!
14. 8. Leg Slides - Sideways and Backwards
15. Side leg slides! Hip hinge and knee alignment!
16. Backwards Leg Slides . Weight stays on front leg! Watch knee position.
17. 9. Side Stepping and Monster Walk
18. And let's do the Monster Walk!
19. 10. Bridging
20. Want to bridge on the dock? Remember to establish neutral pelvis first!
21. 11. Sidelying Hip Abduction
22. Side-lying Hip Abduction on the Wall Video. Find a wall and give it a try!
23. 12. Clamshell
24. Sea creatures... Clam, Crab... Let's learn how to do the clamshell!
25. Your Turn! Use a wall or just pay attention to your pelvis angle! Flashlight angled to the ground !!
26. 13. Forearm Plank
27. 14. Side Plank
28. Side plank video. Try all 3 levels!
29. 15. Forward Lunge Progression
30. Let's Lunge
31. 16. Side Lunge
32. Side Lunging Video. Compare your right and left sides!
33. 17. Forward Step Up
34. Forward Step up Video
35. Try it... Heel raise, Glut Squeeze and Lift - Can you lift the knee at the top and stabilize? Can you lower super slowly?
36. 18. Hip Hinge
37. 19. Dead lift
38. Hip Hinge into Supported Dead lift video... give it a try!
39. 20. Connecting the ankles to the hip neuromuscularly
1. Glut Medius Activation Worksheet
2. Glut Medius Activation Lowest to Highest
3. Demo of Glut Med exercises from lowest to highest activation (up until the top 5!)
4. Glut Medius: the top 5 exercises!
5. Gluteus Medius EMG ranking with 1 most activated fibers and 19 the least activated glut med
6. Rank Glut MAX Exercises - worksheet
7. Glut Max Activation
8. Demo of Glut Max Exercises #6-20 (20 is least activation)
9. Top 5 Glut Max Exercises!
10. Gluteus Maximus Activation with #1 most activated fibers and #20 least activated EMG
1. Quiz for Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function
1. Taking Your Pre and Post Op Hip Clients to New Heights!
2. References for this Presentation: Have a look at some of these terrific peer-reviewed publications!
3. Key Notes Handout for Your Future Reference
1. Certificate for Part 1 Hip and Knee

About this course

$219.00
8 hours content
Self Paced
Content available for 1 year

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

Course curriculum

Welcome to the course!

Module 1: What is Osteoarthritis?

Module 2: Osteoarthritis and Running

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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