Rehabbing the Runner
Course Description
Treating runners is a fun yet often complex biomechanical task. This seminar will allow you to assess and treat the runner in an integrative and comprehensive way. It will update you on the biomechanics of running, teach you a comprehensive gait assessment, incorporate functional movement assessments, and finally, teach treatment through the use of MFR/MET/mobilizations of the lower quarter.
At the completion of this course, the clinician will be able to treat most any running injury diagnosis with confidence and comprehensiveness, leading to great results with their patients!
Top Takeaways
- Develop a thorough approach to evaluating injury and dysfunction in the running athlete
- Learn how to provide an eclectic treatment structure with both manual treatment and exercise progression for runners, while furthering the understanding of nuance and specificity to different types of runners of all levels
Course Objectives
At the completion of this seminar, participants will be able to...
- Correctly state 8 key biomechanical foundations of correct running
- Correctly state 8 key biomechanical faults seen in runners
- Correctly demonstrate 8 key treatment techniques for joint mobilizations to improve biomechanics with runners
- Correctly demonstrate 6 treatment techniques for myofascial release to decrease stress on the hip
- Correctly instruct a person in 5 exercises to improve a runner’s gait, biomechanics and where they are getting their power from
- Create a running program that addresses running load, rest, speed, endurance and power post-injury and for the running athlete
Course Instructors
Marcus Lewis
PT, DPT, CIMT
Marcus received his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of Michigan-Flint in 2018 and has since been working in the greater Ann Arbor area with Probility Physical Therapy. He is currently the clinic director at an outpatient orthopedic Probility clinic in Livonia. He became a Certified Integrative Manual Therapist (CIMT) in 2021 and began teaching with Great Lakes Seminars later that year. Marcus specializes in a holistic treatment approach with focus on several types of manual therapy, including myofascial release, muscle energy techniques, and joint mobilization with and without movement. His treatment philosophy involves finding and fixing dysfunction, re-training the body, strengthening, and optimization. Marcus has a passion for working with athletes focused on both weightlifting and running. When he's outside of the clinic, he can often be found in northern Michigan enjoying life on the water or on the trails with his wife and dog.
Course Outline
Saturday
Doors open
Lecture: Running over the years - How conceptual models have changed
Lecture: Overview of anatomy and lower quarter biomechanics
Lecture: Biomechanics of normal and abnormal running
Lunch (on your own)
Lab: Gait assessment
Lab: Gait retraining
Review of today's lecture concepts
Review of evidence-based literature for today’s topics
Adjourn
Sunday
Doors open
Review and testing of Day 1 material and techniques
Lab: Lower quarter mobilizations for runners
Lab: Lower quarter MFR for runners
Lunch (on your own)
Lab: Exercises for runners
Running progressions and training programs
Review of case studies
Review of evidence-based literature for today’s topics
Adjourn
