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This illustrated on-line course covers the assessment, interpretation and treatment of the following short/tight muscles:

• rectus femoris and iliopsoas

These correspondence courses will provide you with practical information on the concept of neurodynamics;

• General layout of the nervous system in relation to the musculoskeletal system;

• Tension, sliding and compression as a mechanical function of the nervous system;

• How nerves move and nervous system responses to movement;

• Nervous system physiology; and

• Neurodynamics sequencing.

The information provided will assist you with the clinical reasoning for treatment of a patient with neural tissue pain disorders.

Static Stretch (SS) does not appear to reduce injury risk and any effect on earlier return to sport is of marginal clinical significance.  In contrast, a graduated strength training programme appears to significantly reduce injury risk and significantly reduce the time to return to sport after injury.

Therefore, the only area in which SS might seem to offer a specific advantage is in the area of increasing flexibility.  However, there remains a lack of evidence that gains are superior to those of a strength training programme. Even if strength training is eventually confirmed as being inferior to SS at increasing flexibility, the fact that strength training improves performance, pain, disability, injury and return to sport rates mean strength training must be a mainstay of athletic development and training, in contrast to SS.

This correspondence course covers essential information regarding biomechanics of the neural system of the spine, shoulder, hip and knee regions.

In particular, this manual provides a detailed discussion of neural tissue biomechanics and implication for treatment of spinal and peripheral joint movement.

Low back pain is a common disabling disorder that affects almost every individual at least once in their life time.

This on-line course provides insight into several treatment techniques that can be applied to spinal pain patients through the use of clinical examples.

This course reflects on the possible role that this methodology can play within a constantly changing physiotherapy practice.

The science of sports injury prevention has grown exponentially over the past two decades. We know that interventions can prevent major knee, ankle and other injuries.  This course will help you to help your sports clients to reduce the risk of injury. You will gain a thorough understanding of how sports injuries occur.

Then you will gain in-depth knowledge of the factors that can reduce the risk of injury, warm-up, stretching, taping and bracing, equipment, surfaces, training, envelope of function and the central governor model for the limit of performance and their appropriate use.

This illustrated on-line course covers the assessment, interpretation and treatment of the following short/tight muscles:

• Hamstrings:

• Lower and upper hamstrings

• Tensor fascial lata

The science of sports injury prevention has grown exponentially over the past two decades. We know that interventions can prevent major knee, ankle and other injuries. This course will help you to help your sports clients to reduce the risk of injury. You will gain a thorough understanding of how sports injuries occur.

Then you will gain in-depth knowledge of the factors that can reduce the risk of injury, warm-up, stretching, taping and bracing, equipment, surfaces, training, envelope of function and the central governor model for the limit of performance and their appropriate use.

What is manual therapy? How is it combined with active movement? What is the effect of this?

Find out how to apply this technique and learn about how to use it as an assessment tool for peripheral joints.

This illustrated on-line course covers the assessment, interpretation and treatment of the following short/tight muscles:

• Piriformis

• Quadrates lumborum