Pre-exercise Screening
Thursday July 21, 2011 – Thursday July 21, 2011
UniSA City East Campus, Playford Building
Description:
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Pre-exercise screening creates a foundation for safe, effective and client focused training.
Considering the increasing health needs of the population, and the opportunity for these needs to be addressed in fitness settings, being able to identify the level of cardiovascular and metabolic risk of new clients will ensure that exercise programming can appropriately match those needs, as well as facilitate well educated referrals to medical and allied health practitioners.
A brand new Screening tool has been developed that can be specifically used by the fitness industry, by a collaboration between Fitness Australia (FA), Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA), and Sports Medicine Australia (SMA).
This is the first workshop of its kind in Australia to train and equip you to use this screening tool. At the workshop you will learn:
The process taken to develop the screen to ensure its specificity to the Australian Fitness Industry- The extensive background to each of the questions to ensure you understand their implications
- How to conduct each of the measurements and tests included in the tool
- how to apply the results obtained based on various case studies.
- How to refer when appropriate – to the right practitioner, and in the most effective way.
The workshop will be headed by Professor Kevin Norton, who was the chair of the development group of the tool. He will be supported by a number of Exercise Physiologists, including Nicole Lewis and Belinda Norton (from the University of South Australia), Dr Nathan Harten (iNform Health and Fitness Solutions) and Max Martin (Corrective Exercise Australia).
To ensure the broadest access to this workshop possible, the it will be worth 6 CECs, and the registration cost has been kept to a minimum due a subsidy by Fitness Australia.
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When: Thursday 21st July
Time: 9am (registrations) for 9:30 start – 4pm
Where: University of South Australia – City East Campus. Playford Building – Level 6, Room P6-19
Catering: mid morning and afternoon tea provided. Can bring lunch or purchase from near-by cafes (Uni Cafe + Rundle Street, etc)
CECs: 6
Cost: $45
Allow time to find carpark and room!
Shoulder Rehab Made Easy
Shoulder rehab is hard right? There are so many things that can go wrong in there- subacromial bursitis, supraspinatus impingement, biceps impingement, rotator cuff weakness, frozen shoulders. The list goes on and on. How do we know what is what? And what do we do specifically if we don’t know what is specifically wrong? And maybe worse, what do we do when we do know what the problem actually is? Looking through a well-regarded text like Kendall’s ‘Muscles; Testing and function’, with its 100+ pages of muscle tests for the upper extremity alone can tempt even the most stoic of anatomy nerds to place shoulders into the ‘too hard basket’. It needn’t be this hard.
Suddenly our ideal ’corrective’ exercises are suddenly not only useless, they may be reinforcing dysfunctional patterns already present!
Let me give you two pieces of information that may ease your frazzled mind.
1) As an Exercise Professional, it is not your job to diagnose. In fact, as a Personal Trainer or Exercise Physiologist diagnosis exists outside of your scope of practice.
2) Regardless, diagnosis of the specific injury is superfluous to what you actually need to do for effective shoulder rehab.
For a shoulder to be happy, healthy and functioning beautifully you really only need to tick three boxes. Continue reading
Putting the ‘Allied’ into ‘Allied Health’ Part 2
I have received some interesting responses to my previous post on this topic- unfortunately most of them have been of horror stories of practioners that people know of who practice like my friend the Osteopath. I guess it was an oversight of mine not to give a specific example of a client who has been fortunate enough to be handled by true ‘Allied Health Practitioners and had a positive outcome. The truth is I could write about at least fifty of my current or past clients, but I think it would be appropriate if I detailed the experiences of the client I was referring to last time.
The brief back ground of this client is as follows:
- Woman, early fifties, 20+kg overweight, has recently torn her left tibialis posterior tendon (overuse, with flat feet and excess wieght being causative factors). She was also experiencing low back pain and SIJ pain due to compensatory gait patterns. She hopes to reduce her foot pain sufficiently within 2 months as she is travelling to Europe for 6weeks with her family.
She decided to continue see me and her Podiatrist, and upon the Pod’s advice, saw an Orthopaedic Surgeon who has a typically conservative approach. The surgeon has advised staying off her feet as much as possible, losing some weight and wear the Podiatrist’s brace religiously. He has advised surgery if no improvement is seen.
In response she has started a reduced calorie eating plan, hired an exercise bike and worn the brace day and night.
As a result she has already lost 3kg, her foot has improved dramatically and her back and SIJ’s are also feeling better. She has continued to train, and we have been able to do some pretty vigourous sessions with no risk to exacerbating her injuries. Due to the guidance of these two practitioners I have had the confidence to work her hard within safe boundaries.
This, so far has been a great situation for everybody. What would her experience have been like if she had gone to the Osteo, and removed herself from this colaborative network? Who knows.
What I do know is that in the future, I would do nothing different, my client would do the same and she will have every confidence in the advice I give in the future.
Putting The ‘Allied’ into Allied Health
The term ‘Allied’ infers that an alliance is present. Alliance according to the dictionary basically means a close association of groups or individuals is formed to advance a common interest or cause. Allied Health therefore means that close associations between various practitioners from varying professions are formed in a collaborative effort to maximise client outcomes. Allied Health, by this definition, rarely exists.
He does not like his clients seeing practitioners from other professions as it makes it hard for him to gauge how successful his part of the treatment has been. Are you serious buddy? Continue reading
The 6 Traits of Great Health Professionals
I gained my certification to practice in the health and fitness industry from University. That does not mean I discriminate against those who went to TAFE or a private education company- Rather, I believe that no matter how you got qualified, you are only at the embrionic stage of your education in this fantastic profession.
I was fortunate to learn this very early. As I was finishing my degree I landed a job with iNform Health and Fitness Solutions- an Exercise Physiology and Personal Training studio with a reputation for being leaders in the field in staff continued education. I quickly learnt that relative to my new colleagues, I knew very little! Continue reading
