COURSE:
Making Sense of Muscle Power
& Applying it to Rehabilitation
Acquire the theory, knowledge and skills you need to power-up your rehabilitation programmes – in a step-by-step format, with support along the way. Strength is important, but being able to express that force quickly is critical for injury avoidance and for performance. Create the specificity in your programmes to optimise rate of force development and explosive force production, for elite performance to falls-prevention.
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Dr Claire Minshull
Rehabilitation & Conditioning Specialist
Plyometrics won’t cut it
I’m guessing you’re a clinician or rehabilitation professional and you have a good understanding of strength training, and you’re aware of the need to also focus on muscle power and rate of force development (RFD). You likely also suspect there’s more to this than just plyometrics.
Injuries happen quickly. Through rehabilitation and conditioning there’s a need develop patients’ explosive force production to move quickly and stabilise joints. There’s also a need to accommodate imposed forces quickly to protect susceptible tissue.
Whilst RFD has become a popular term within rehabilitation and conditioning, searching for information on RFD and muscle power and how to apply it this to rehabilitation practice can be confusing.
Making Sense of Muscle Power & Applying it to Rehabilitation
is an online course that does exactly that. Drawing from the most pertinent research literature, you will learn the theoretical underpinnings of everything that we do and understand the neuromuscular mechanisms of change. Importantly you will also be able to apply this to practice! You will feel confident and comfortable in training muscle power and RFD, with patients and at the appropriate stages in the rehabilitation process.
What can you expect from this online course?
- A 6-module course that takes you from the fundamentals to mastery of power training
- A clear understanding of power & RFD, they’re not the same
- A breakdown of the neural, muscular & non-contractile tissue contributions that underpin explosive force production
- Tutorials on exercise design for RFD & power - and how to do this in clinical populations
- A critical evaluation of weightlifting derivatives & resistance exercise for explosive force production
- A framework to help you decide when and how to address muscle power in rehabilitation
- An understanding of potentiation & potentiation complexes & how to use them
- An evidence-based dose-response for muscle power. We need to know what aspects of performance we want to change first.
- A systematic approach on how to assess power - in the clinic
- Practical applications and practical exercises, examples and templates to use in clinic
Why chose this course?
Designed and delivered by Dr Claire Minshull
It’s all online
Support
International (private) group of peers
Manageable and Modular
Lifetime access
Resources
Applicable to Multiple Patients
CPD Certificate
If you’re not happy, I ALWAYS promise a money back guarantee!
If you don’t feel like you’re well on your way to understanding the most fundamental aspects of RFD and Power and how to apply them to create more effective and progressive rehabilitation programmes, while feeling SO much more confident in doing so, just let me know within 21 days and we’ll fire back your investment.
A detailed breakdown of each module
Still undecided, want to know more about the structure, take a read of exactly what we do.
Module 1
What Is Power?
We start with the fundamentals and definitions. What is power, when is power important within performance and rehabilitation settings? Is it always important and do we always need to address it?
Lessons:
- 1. Context
- 2. Definitions
- 3. What is Power?
- 4. Is Power Important?
- 5. Summary
Module 2
Power vs Rate of Force Development (RFD)
Here we unpack the critical differences between RFD and muscle power. These are terms that are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. We look at the different formulae and the ways in which these two indices of performance are assessed.
Lessons:
- 1. RFD vs Power & Formulae
- 2. Assessment of Power
- 3. Assessment of RFD
- 4. Summary
Module 3
Components of RFD
Rate of force development is a critical component of muscle power, to understand each, we need to understand the neuromuscular and musculoskeletal contributions to each index. Here we unpack the neural and muscular determinants of RFD and start to understand which has the greatest relative influence on explosive force production at different positions on the force-time curve – this is important as we develop exercise interventions. We also go through the force-velocity relationship and what this mans for training.
Lessons:
- 1. The MSK system in Schematic Form
- 2. Neural & Muscular Determinants
- 3. The Force-Velocity Relationship
- 4. Summary
Module 4
Exercise Design for Development
of RFD & Power
Now that we’ve got an appreciation of what’s going on physiologically, we can start to address the critical components to RFD and power training interventions. We consider the specificity of exercise, and how we’d progress a patient/client through this type of conditioning. Important factors include strength, baseline performance, rehabilitation stage, patient journey and goals.
Lessons:
- 1. The Key Components to Power/RFD Training
- 2. A Progressive Approach to Training Power
- 3. Summary
Module 5
Exercise Design for Patient Function & Performance
Considering two specific patient populations – the older adult with knee OA and the ACL-injured athlete, we delve into the hierarchy of importance – how to establish what’s most important and in which stage of rehab. And for most ambitious, we look at potentiation and potentiation complexes; a very important tool to help with explosive force production.
Lessons:
- 1. Hierarchy of Importance
- 2. Exercise Design
- 3. Dose-Response & Load Accommodation
- 4. Potentiation
- 5. Summary
Module 6
Assessing Power - In The Clinic
So, you’ve become experts in explosive force production training. But can you assess it? This is very tricky in settings with very limited equipment – but not totally impossible. Here we look at test set-up, methodology and pragmatic design so that we can evaluate change in explosive force production with minimal kit.
Lessons:
- 1. Assessing power - in the clinic!
- 2. Designing Tests of Power
- 3. Summary
Here’s what you’re getting if you enrol:
Making Sense of Muscle Power
& Applying it to Rehabilitation
VALUE:
Bonus 1
Module: Assessing Strength & Monitoring Progress
VALUE:
Bonus 2
4 x Live (& recorded) Group Coaching Calls with Dr Claire Minshull
VALUE:
Lifetime Access!
But when you enrol, you’ll get access to everything for just £325
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