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Assessing & Treating Today’s Athletes: Get Faster Results with Evidence-based Protocols for the Injuries You See Most – Darrell Locket

Why Some Injured Athletes Never Return to Play—and What You Can Do About It

Whether they’re wrecking themselves in CrossFit® or football, record numbers of weekend warriors are cropping up with the sports injuries of professional athletes. That means business is booming for rehab professionals like you. However, with more athletes skipping physicians than ever before, you’ve got to be confident in your assessment skills if you hope to treat symptoms at their source. If your caseload has stalled during this busy time with patients who aren’t making much progress, now’s the time to reevaluate your evaluations.

This hands-on program will take your sports medicine team to the next level, equipping you with evidence-based, multidisciplinary protocols for the athletic injuries you see most. From IT bands to impinged rotator cuffs, this course provides efficient clinical pathways for each member of your team, eliminating the guesswork from assessment, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation. With plenty of practice throughout the day, you’ll quickly grasp the “why,” “what,” and “how” of common conditions like acute/chronic inflammation, microtrauma, neuromuscular imbalances, and joint instability. The effective interventions you’ll try out in class will feel like second nature by the time you return to work.

Finally, explore the unique biomechanical demands of common sports and fitness activities and take home injury prevention methods and conditioning techniques that keep your clients doing what they love, whether they’re swinging golf clubs or kettlebells.

1. Analyze the anatomy, mechanics, and pathology of common sports injuries, reviewing differences in injuries seen in youth, adults, and other groups
2. Compare assessment techniques for connective tissue injuries such as muscle, tendon, and ligament
3. Identify orthopedic stress test techniques and methodologies for the upper and lower extremity
4. Review evaluation techniques for abnormal biomechanics of gait and abnormal physiology of the kinetic chain
5. Design preventive and reconditioning regimens that reduce the likelihood of injury for upper and lower extremity
6. Integrate multidisciplinary clinical protocols for common sports injuries, covering assessment, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation

Sports Medicine Team Practitioner Approach to Treatment of Sports Injuries

• Treatment of the injury: Non-operative and operative (types of surgery)
• Healing phases and rehabilitation
• Lab: Comprehensive sports injury physical examination
• Lab: Gait, posture, and functional kinetic chain assessment

LAB: Physical Examination of the Ankle & Lower Leg

• Preventive measures, mechanics of injuries, inspection of gait, range of motion, manual muscle testing, and special stress tests
  • Pes anserinus bursitis or tendonitis
  • Shin splint or medial tibial stress syndrome
  • Posterior tibial tendon dysfunction
  • Achilles tear, strain, bursitis, tendonitis, or tenosynovitis
  • Gastrocnemius and soleus strain
  • Retrocalcaneal bursitis or Sever’s syndrome
  • Lateral and medial ankle sprain
  • Syndesmotic injuries (high ankle sprain)
  • Tarsal tunnel
  • Interdigital (Morton’s) neuroma
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • Peroneal tendon subluxation
  • Jones fracture
  • Stress fracture
  • Avulsion fractures

LAB: Physical Examination of the Knee, Hip, & Thigh

• Preventive measures, inspection of gait, squats, lunges, range of motion, mechanics of injuries, palpation, and special stress tests
  • Ligament injuries
    • Anterior and posterior cruciate
    • Medial and lateral collateral
  • Cartilage injuries
  • Meniscal tears
  • Articular
  • Degenerative joint disease
• Patellafemoral injuries
  • Chondromalacia
  • Malalignment and instability
  • Tendonitis or Osgood-Schlatter
  • Degenerative joint disease
• Muscle injuries
  • Gluteus maximus weakness
  • Gluteus medius and minimus weakness
  • Tensor fascia lata weakness
  • Quadriceps femoris and hamstring strain/tendonitis/ruptures
• Hip injuries
  • Hip impingement
  • Trochanteric bursitis
  • Adductor strain
  • Iliotibial band friction syndrome

LAB: Physical Examination of the Shoulder & Arm Injuries

• Preventive measures, inspection posture, functional movement, mechanics of injuries, range of motion, palpation, and special stress tests
  • Glenohumeral instability, anterior or posterior joint
  • Rotator cuff strain, impingement or tendonitis
  • Pectoralis strain
  • Acromioclavicular joint sprain
  • Brachial plexus (burner/stinger)
  • SLAP lesion
  • Bicipital tenosynovitis/subluxation
  • Triceps and biceps strain
  • Bursitis of elbow
  • Lateral and medial epicondylitis of the elbow

LAB: Physical Examination of the Back Injuries

• Preventive measures, inspection gait, posture, functional kinetic chain assessment, mechanics of injuries, range of motion, palpation, and special stress tests
  • Piriformis syndrome and sciatica
  • Erector spinae muscle strain
  • Sacroiliac sprain
  • Acute and chronic low back pain
  • Lumbar spinal stenosis

LAB: Physical Examination of the Wrist, & Hand Anatomy

• Preventive measures, inspection posture, mechanics of injuries, range of motion, palpation, and special stress tests
  • Trifibrocartilage (TFC)
  • DeQuervain’s
  • Hand and fingers fracture/other conditions
  • Gamekeeper’s thumb