The Shoulder Complex - It's Not that Complex: Understanding and Treating Shoulder Injuries for Rotational Athletes

by Dr Reid Nelles

Online Course
Price
C$ 249.99

Includes all course content in digital format

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Description

Whether you're a new grad or you've been working the clinic for decades - Understanding and Treating the Shoulder can be an overwhelmingly complex issue for the best of us. This course is for medical professionals as well as trainers and coaches who want to level up their Patient Intake, History, Screening and Assessment of Shoulder Injuries. This information is critical in setting the tone for any treatment strategies or interventions utilized with the patient or client. Once we decipher not only what is happening in the shoulder complex, but also why it's happening - this course demonstrates with Live Applications and Use of Treatment Strategies based off of these findings. What is the best tool to choose for the job at hand? Deciding which modality or exercise to utilize can be daunting. We will learn progressive and regressive strategies for treating Pain, Mobility, Stability, and Motor Control with tactics such as Cupping, Compression Floss Therapies, Kinesiology Taping, and Corrective Exercise Strategies.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify and recognize common shoulder injuries as they relate to rotational athletes
  • Understand and criticize current research on pathology and etiology of shoulder injuries.
  • Simplify and utilize local and global assessment methods for the shoulder as well as surrounding associated muscle groups and joints.
  • Choose and illustrate assessment concepts by using the entire body and its kinetic chain for addressing shoulder biomechanics.
  • Apply and demonstrate evidence-based treatment techniques. Examples of applications for active modalities in the course include; manual therapies of Decompression Therapy, Compressive Therapies and use of Kinesiology Taping for common shoulder dysfunctions.
  • Recognize and interpret Corrective Exercise Intervention Strategies that clients or patients can utilize to address dysfunctional movement patterns at home.

Course Content

The Shoulder Complex: It's Not that Complex
Module

Shoulder Complex, it’s not that Complex Dr. Reid is a chiropractor whose passion is to restore and improve qualities of movement. Humans are made to move, so this concept doesn’t stop at just athletes but extends to everyone.

Reid earned his Bachelor of Science from University of Minnesota – Duluth where he then followed his passion onto Northwestern Health Sciences University to pursue a Doctorate in Chiropractic. While attending Northwestern, Reid was fortunate to be chosen for the Medical Staffing of the World Sport Games in Lignano, Italy which kick started his infatuation with sports chiropractic.

At his clinic, Minnesota Movement, Dr. Reid helps clients find their ability by utilizing movement patterns, corrective exercises, hands-on techniques, and education. He has had the fortune of working with athletes across a wide range of endeavors such as the NHL, CrossFit Games Athletes, LPGA, PGA, Ironman Participants, MLB, and NFL as well as elite weekend warriors.

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