In order to become a productive member of a sports medicine team, the sports physical therapist needs to be versed in many facets of care of the athlete. EIM’s evidence-based Sports Competencies course will cover many of these facets, to include: preventive and supportive taping; pre-participation screenings; functional movement screenings including corrective exercise prescription; evaluation, instruction and treatment of athletic movement; late-phase ACL rehabilitation; and injury prevention programs.

Course Objectives/Outcomes

• Incorporate information from self-report measures, history and pre-participation musculoskeletal screenings to guide evidence-based decision making and recommendations to a team physician re: sports participation and/or need for rehabilitation.
• Demonstrate clinical examination skills for functional movement utilizing an evidence-based functional movement screen.
• Demonstrate clinical examination skills for athletic movement.
• Synthesize examination findings from functional movement screen and athletic movement to prescribe corrective exercises and injury prevention strategies.
• Select and demonstrate neuromuscular training and therapeutic exercise interventions based on current best evidence for the rehabilitation of the physically active individual.
• Most importantly – be able to apply this stuff to your clinical practice next week!

Applicability

• • Sports Physical Therapy Residency
  • Sports Physical Therapy Certification

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