Darrell Locket – Assessing & Treating Today’s Athletes

Explore the unique biomechanical requirements of various sports and exercise activities. Finally, learn how to teach your clients injury prevention techniques and conditioning techniques that will keep them doing what they love, no matter if they are lifting weights or swinging a golf club.

Darrell Locket – Assessing & Treating Today’s Athletes

How Some Injured Are Made 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. Rehab professionals like you are in great demand. However, athletes are skipping doctors more than ever so you need to be confident with your assessment skills if the goal is to treat symptoms right away. You should reevaluate how you are evaluating patients if your caseload is stalled or they’re not making any progress.

This is how it works-The program will equip you with evidence and take your sports medicine team to a higher level.-Multidisciplinary, evidence-based protocols that address the most common athletic injuries. This course will cover everything you need to know about IT bands and impinged-rotator cuffs. You’ll quickly learn the concepts with plenty of practice. “why,” “what,” “how” Common conditions include acute/chronic inflammation, joint instability, neuromuscular imbalances, microtrauma and neuromuscular imbalances. When you return from work, the effective interventions that you learn in class will be second nature.

Learn about the unique biomechanical demands that common sports and activities pose to your clients and learn injury prevention and conditioning methods that will keep them doing what their hearts desire, whether it’s swinging golf clubs, or kettlebells.

1. Analyze the anatomy and mechanics of common sports injuries. Compare injuries among youth and adults.
2. Compare assessment techniques for connective tissues injuries, such as tendon, muscle and ligament.
3. Recognize and use the best orthopedic stress tests techniques and methods for the upper and/or lower extremities
4. Examine evaluation techniques for abnormal biomechanics and physiology of kinetic chain.
5. Create preventive and rehabilitation programs that lower the risk of injury to the upper and/or lower extremities.
6. Multidisciplinary protocols are used to treat common sports injuries. This includes assessment, evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation.

Sports Medicine Team Practitioner Approach to Treating Sports Injuries

• Treatment for the injury:-Types of surgery: operative and operative
• Rehabilitation and healing phases
• Lab: Comprehensive physical examination for sports injuries
• Laboratory: Assessment of gait, posture and functional kinetic chain

LAB: Physical Examination of the Ankle & Lower Leg 

• Preventive measures and mechanics of injury, inspection of gait, range motion, manual muscle testing, stress tests, and other special stress tests
  • Pes anserinus tendonitis or bursitis
  • Shin splint, medial tibial strain syndrome
  • Posterior tibial tendon dysfunction
  • Achilles tear, strain bursitis tendonitis tendonitis or tenosynovitis
  • Gastrocnemius strain and soleus strain
  • Retrocalcaneal bursitis or Sever’s syndrome
  • Sprains of the medial and lateral ankles
  • High ankle sprains (syndrometic injuries)
  • Tarsal tunnel
  • Interdigital (Morton’s) neuroma
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • Subluxation of the peroneal tendon
  • Jones fracture
  • Stress fracture
  • Avulsion fractures

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

• Preventive measures: gait, squats and lunges inspection, range of motion mechanics of injury, palpation and special stress tests
  • Ligament injuries
    • Anterior and post-cruciate
    • Medial collateral and lateral collateral
  • Cartilage injuries
  • Meniscal tears
  • Articular
  • Degenerative joint disease
• Patellafemoral injuries
  • Chondromalacia
  • Instability and malalignment
  • Tendonitis and Osgood-Schlatter
  • Degenerative joint disease
• Muscle injuries
  • Gluteus maximus weakness
  • Gluteus medius weakness and minimus weakness
  • Tensor fascia lata weakness
  • Quadriceps femoris and hamstring strain/tendonitis/ruptures
• Hip injuries
  • Hip impingement
  • Trochanteric bursitis
  • Adductor strain
  • The Iliotibial Band Friction Syndrome

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LAB: Physical Examination of the Shoulder & Arm Injuries

• Preventive measures include inspection posture, functional motion, mechanics of injury, range of movement, palpation and special stress tests
  • Glenohumeral instability, anterior and posterior joint
  • Tendonitis, impingement, strain on the rotator cuff
  • Pectoralis strain
  • Acromioclavicular joint sprain
  • Brachial plexus (burner/stinger)
  • SLAP lesion
  • Bicipital tenosynovitis/subluxation
  • Strain for triceps and biceps
  • Bursitis of the elbow
  • The elbow is affected by medial and lateral epicondylitis.

LAB: Physical Examination for Back Injuries

• Preventive actions, inspection gait and posture, functional Kinetic Chain Assessment, mechanics, range of movement, palpation, special stress tests
  • Sciatica and Piriformis syndrome
  • Strain of the Erector Spinae muscle
  • Sacroiliac sprain
  • Low back pain, acute and chronic
  • Lumbar spinal stenosis

LAB: Physical Examination of the Wrist, & Hand Anatomy

• Preventive measures include inspection posture, mechanics, range motion, palpation and special stress testing
  • Trifibrocartilage (TFC)
  • DeQuervain’s
  • Broken fingers and hands/other conditions
  • Gamekeeper’s thumb