Building the Ultimate Back

FULLY BOOKED / 25 & 26 February 2012

Presented by: Dr Stuart McGill, PhD

Course Synopsis

The aim of the course is to provide guidance in the application of this knowledge to the clinic, workplace, rehabilitation centre and sports field to reduce the risk of injury, optimize healing of the patient, and build ultimate back performance in the athlete. It also aims to give practice and technique development with workshops throughout the day.

Brief Description of Topics

• Building the Foundation: Dispel the myths about how the spine works and becomes injured.
• Interpreting Patient/Athlete Presentation: Understand aberrant motion and motor patterns along with possibilities for corrective exercise.
• Rehabilitation Exercise - Biomechanics and Clinical Practices: This component of the course attempts to quantify and rank exercises for their spine loading, muscle usage and stabilizing potential.
• Reducing the Risk of Injury Beyond Ergonomics: No clinician can be successful without removing the cause of back troubles in patients.
• Training for performance: Training the back for performance (either athletic or occupational) requires different approaches and objectives than training to fulfil rehabilitation objectives.

Professor Stuart McGill has authored over 300 scientific publications that address the issues of lumbar function, low back injury mechanisms, investigation of tissue loading during rehabilitation programs and the formulation of work-related injury avoidance strategies. He is a consultant to many medical management groups, professional sports teams and athletes, governments, corporations and legal firms. He sits on the editorial boards of the journals SPINE, Clinical
Biomechanics, and Journal of Applied Biomechanics.