Professional Development Courses:
Rehab Professional Collaboration/Consultation via Skype:
Harnessing the Diaphragm/Pelvic Floor Piston
for Rehabilitation and Fitness
Despite its inclusion in most definitions of the core, few rehabilitation or fitness programs integrate the pelvic floor into strengthening or neuromotor training. An integrated clinical model of the pelvic floor requires a broadened definition of pelvic floor function beyond merely maintaining continence. When linked to the diaphragm, the pelvic floor acts as a powerful stabilizer of lumbosacral, sacroiliac, pubic symphysis, and pelvic-hip joints ensuring efficient LE and UE mechanics.
Clinicians will be introduced to an innovative, clinical model that incorporates a neuromuscular-based core recruitment, driven by external cueing of both the pelvic floor and diaphragm in precise alignment. Evidence of dysfunction in this system can manifest across a woman’s lifespan: at puberty possibly contributing to non-contact ACL injuries in adolescent girls, during pregnancy and beyond as a myriad of musculoskeletal complaints and finally as balance and incontinence dysfunction in older women.
Session participants will have the opportunity to experience the material themselves through exercises that integrate the diaphragm/pelvic floor piston into core exercises, postural muscle patterning, gait, fitness and sport specific activities. .
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Clinical Correlation’s for Adult Populations
Clinical Correlation’s for Adult Populations is part two in the series Harnessing the Diaphragm/Pelvic Floor Piston for Rehabilitation and Fitness*. The course provides the opportunity to gain an increased level of mastery with assessment and treatment planning for a variety of clinical diagnoses. On day one the course will review important concepts from Part One*, address questions from the trenches to troubleshoot implementation or conceptual issues, and participants will be provided with updates to the research literature. Orthopedic, neuromuscular and women’s health diagnosis specific issues will be discussed through the conceptual framework of Core Strategy. On day two, a live demonstration of an assessment from start to finish with static and dynamic testing suggestions will be provided, followed by group treatment planning and progressions (provencial/state licensure issues will prevail). Opportunities for additional assessment and treatment planning will occur through video clips, live demos and problem solving. Therapists are invited to bring a video clip of one of their clients to share with the group. In this way the course content is most relevant to present caseloads and the learning most pertinent to the therapists attending.
Part One* of the series is a prerequisite for this course. This course is only available to credentialed rehabilitation professionals (PT, AT, Kin, Chiro, Osteopaths) and is limited to 30 participants.
*Part One was also known as The Dynamic Core, The Dynamic Pelvic Floor, or The Integrated Core.
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Pediatric Rehabilitation
Dynamic Core for Kids
Instructors: Shelley Mannell, Julie Wiebe
Therapists document challenges with the core in the majority of children who are experiencing motor challenges, regardless of diagnosis: ASD, CP, DCD, hypotonia. Join us for an exciting 3 day course that integrates current theory and practice in pediatric treatment with a systems approach that is anchored in a neuromuscular model of Core recruitment. On Day 1 participants will learn how this “Core Strategy” is linked to effective self-regulation and also how it impacts the development of respiration, balance and functional gross and fine motor skills. A specific assessment model of the alignment, which is crucial to the function of the Core, is explained. Then the practical skill of how to identify the proper activation of each of the four Core components is discussed. On Day 2 participants will learn to implement “Core Strategy” techniques in treatment and functional activities that have immediate application to a variety clinical situations (direct treatment, school and home programmes) in their clients, ages 2 years and older. Case presentations will address how to develop Core Strategy in clients of differing ages (preschoolers, school age and teens) and diagnoses. Participants will also discuss how to integrate Core Strategy techniques with Neuro-Developmental Treatment handling skills and sensory processing intervention to support a greater range of clients. Day 3 provides the opportunity to gain an increased level of mastery with assessment and treatment planning for children with a variety of motor challenges using assessment videos and small group learning.
This course will be of interest to OTs, PTs and SLPs working in all areas of paediatrics.
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Dynamic Core for Kids 2
Instructors: Shelley Mannell, Julie Wiebe
In Dynamic Core for Kids therapists were introduced to the assessment of the Core and intervention strategies for children with motor challenges. Dynamic Core for Kids 2 provides the opportunity to gain an increased level of mastery with assessment and treatment planning for children with a variety of motor challenges. Day 1 will begin with review of the important concepts in treatment of the Core and update therapists on the current research literature. Opportunities for assessment and treatment planning will occur for the rest of Day 1 and Day 2 through video clips and problem solving. Therapists are invited to bring a video clip of one of their clients to share with the group. If you are interested in gaining an advanced level of skill with Dynamic Core for Kids, join us for an exciting 2 day learning experience. Participants for this course need to have completed the Dynamic Core for Kids 1 (previously Core Restoration for Kids with Motor Challenges course).
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The Fit Floor:
Harnessing the Diaphragm/Pelvic Floor Piston for Fitness and Sport
Despite its inclusion in most definitions of the core, few fitness or return to sport programs integrate the pelvic floor into strengthening, functional, or sport specific training. The Fit Floor provides Fitness Professionals with new tools to integrate the pelvic floor into programming. This innovative training method adds a new layer to current concepts through a neuromuscular inner core recruitment system driven by external cueing of the pelvic floor and diaphragm in precise alignment. Thus providing a stable, yet mobile anchor for all postures, movement patterns, exercise, and sport performance.
Ample gym time will be provided to correlate concepts with practical exercise strategies for a variety of populations and settings.
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