Anterior Knee Pain (Online Course)

Introduction

Understand the importance of the big 3: The Soleus, The Hamstring, and The Hip’s role in Knee Pain

Why the Quadriceps are often doing too much work?
How to look at the body as a whole when designing your knee rehab programs.

In this chapter, Dave talks about the importance of muscle balance between the Vastus, Lateralis/Gastrocnemius for anterior shear forces, and Soleus/Hamstrings for posterior shear forces.

The Anatomy of The Knee Joint

Watch in 3D the Origin, Insertion, and Actions of all the muscles that connect to our knee.

The course material is accompanied by advanced 3D animations that ensure you will understand the theory and successfully put it into practice. In this chapter, we will gain a better understanding of the anatomy of the knee, and how parts of the knee work together to maintain normal function.

Assessments for The Personal Trainer

In this chapter, you will learn some simple assessments to gain clarity and confidence on where to start with your program design.

Patient Education and Explanation

In this chapter, you will learn how to explain the findings to your client for maximum buy-in and adherence to the full treatment plan, even when the pain eases.

Rehabilitation Progressions

In this chapter, we will go through some great rehab exercises and we will show you how these exercises will help your clients. We will do it step by step using 3D animations so you will understand the “why” behind each exercise and not only the “how”,
check out the 4 phases below:

Phase #1 – How to start and build a solid foundation for your patient
Phase #2 – How to get all the key muscles working together in more functional positions.
Phase #3 – How to bridge the gap from low to high-level rehab.
Phase #4 – How to build resilience and help your patient to return to high-level activities.

How to Instruct Your Patients

This bonus chapter includes all the exercises of the progressions proses we learned in this online course, but this time Dave demonstrates all exercises with a partner in order to show you how to instruct your clients, step-by-step, so you will be able to work with your patients like a movement professional once you finish this online course!