Whole-Body Integration after Paralysis
Strategies to facilitate deeper and lasting connections
Hey SCI trainers: Ever wondered what the secret is to getting new movements to *stick* with your SCI clients? Does it always have to be a tiring guessing game of what exercise comes next, and what will or won't work? We think not! Clear strategies from movement disciplines exist which lead to reliable progress in big and small ways. And we want to share them with you!
Maybe all you need are some new coaching strategies to get you thinking differently about the process of SCI recovery.
As the athlete-trainer duo behind the SCI rehab book From the Ground Up, we have thought deeply about how trainers can best support SCI athletes in their recovery. We’ll present the concepts and coaching strategies that we have found to be most effective for integrating the body after a paralyzing injury.
We’re confident this workshop will make you a better coach, with immediately implementable strategies and bigger-picture concepts that facilitate body-wide integration in your SCI clients.
In this 2 HOUR workshop, you will:
- Learn to use fascial tensegrity to facilitate whole-body integration in your SCI clientele
- Understand the interaction between stability and mobility in the context of a paralyzed body
- Leverage principles of neuroscience to help athletes solidify new movement connections long-term
- Make exercise selection and programming for clients faster and easier using motor development progressions and transitional movements as a guide
- Learn effective coaching strategies which make your job easier, and your client’s learning faster
- Find ways to ensure SCI athletes, not their trainers, take ownership of their rehab trajectory!
- All strategies and concepts discussed in this workshop can be applied to SCI athletes of all injury level.
Course format: online/self-paced, access for one-year
Duration: 2 hours, broken into 5 modules
Continuing education credits: Apply for 2 continuing education credits directly to your certifying board with the supplied documents.
PREVIEW full modules below!
Course Curriculum
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Start2.1 - Programming for integration (0:56)
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Start2.2 - Introduction to the motor development progression (4:27)
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Start2.3 -Components of MDP positions that build (8:39)
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Preview2.4 - Transitions in the MDP (2:15)
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Start2.5 - Demonstration & experience of MDP transitions (17:45)
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Start2.6 - Key concepts of MDP (4:24)
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Preview2.7 - Lesson planning with the MDP (3:50)
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Instructor
We have cultivated a working relationship around communication, collaboration, and openness to discovery since 2014. Through our shared journey in neuro-rehab – for one, that is recovery, and the other, professional growth – we have together developed an understanding of the process of reconnection, and ways to facilitate healing.