Getting to Know The Athletic Shoulder

9135 Harrison Park Court,Indianapolis IN 46216

31 July, 2021

Description

This high-level course is designed to give attendees a better understanding of treating the overhead athlete. The athletic shoulder is one of the most dynamic, mobile, unstable, well-researched areas in the human body yet has one of the highest incidences for injury. This course is intended to review significant anatomy, biomechanics, integrated assessment techniques of the shoulder while giving the opportunity to take a deep dive into the sport specific mechanisms of the pitcher, quarterback, swimmer, and volleyball player. There are distinct differences in sport biomechanics when looking at different overhead athletes and the demands on their shoulders during any given portion of their part tasked movement. As musculoskeletal experts, the treating clinician needs to have an ability to integrate foundational science with sport specific demands. With each sport, there needs to be a high level understanding of how the athletic shoulder can be put at risk for injury and how a trained clinician can mitigate or reduce the incidence of injury or progression of pathology. At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to identify movement patterns that favor reduced loading and therefore less risk for injury. On the contrary, the attendee will also be able to identify faulty movement patterns that increase abnormal loading of vulnerable structures in and around the shoulder joint in which potentially result in significant injury and loss of sport time.