High Performance Exercises:
Bridging the gap between therabands and patients' returning to their sport/occupation

Presented by Rehab Connections

Description

Your patient, a manual laborer, has less shoulder pain and can do shoulder external and internal rotation with a blue band and mastered the YTWI exercises…so what’s next?

How do you set the stage and build the steps for not just getting him back to his job, but also making sure he’s better than he was before he left?

How about a high school soccer star who’s been recovering from an ankle injury. She’s doing some SLB, curling marbles with her toes, performing heel raises, etc.

What are the next exercise progressions to not only normalize neuromuscular control and mobility in LE, but also leaves her prepared to deal with running, cutting, and deceleration forces, and has her feeling mentally prepared to return?

Instruction level: Various
CE contact hours 8.0 (IL) *** Duration: 7.0 hours
Intended audience: PTs, PTAs, OTs, OTAs

Topics

• Core exercises: What they are, what they’re not and getting from inflated cuffs, balls, and planks to the next level
• Connecting the dots between the shoulder, rotator cuff, scapular stabilizers, core, and hips
• Making the legs a steel spring from ankles to hips
• Building functional capacity via integrated exercises

Objectives

By the completion of the course the participant will be able to correctly:

1. Perform three tests for assessing core neuromuscular control and strategies to use findings for exercise prescription.
2. Discuss the purpose of and how to progress four high performance therapeutic exercise performed during lab sessions.
3. List the six main mobility and or neuromuscular domains for LE kinetic chain.
4. Demonstrate two high performing exercises facilitated by equipment or verbal cues that facilitate UE dynamic mobility and neuromuscular control.
5. Formulate three potential uses of high performance exercises with simulated patient presentations and special populations.
6. Discuss two variations and or modifications for developing steel springs as presented.

IMPORTANT! 2-3 days prior to the CE event, you will receive your CE materials and Zoom registration link by email. This gives you the opportunity to preview, download or print, save, and refer back to the information at any time. If you do not receive your CE material please contact us before the day of the course or workshop.

Presenter

Denny Kolkebeck, PT, DPT

Certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist
Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

Denny has been a “physical adventurer,” since conception and loves obstacle course racing, scuba diving, and training. He is uber passionate about maximizing people’s health, performance capacity, and getting athletes back to their sport!

Denny has been both an eclectic, orthopedic sports-medicine physical therapist and strength and conditioning coach for 22 years and wears both roles on his sleeve.

He uses a combination of manual therapy skills, dry-needling, taping and movement based drills to "control - alt - delete" aberrant movement patterns, muscle inhibition and musculoskeletal asymmetries.

Denny relishes teaching and sharing what he believes works and is useful to colleagues and healthcare professionals while also learning something new from them!

He works with athletes ranging from endurance athletes to power lifters, ball players to field athletes, and all levels in between.

Denny is the owner of Moose (L)-Up Redemption Club (MURC) Strength Gym and Denny PT Solutions. He believes a beautiful marriage exists between physical therapy and strength and conditioning whether helping clients to alleviate pain or improve their athleticism.

Location

Location

Rehab Connections
Physical Therapy
and
Education and Training Center
14901 S. Founders Crossing, Homer Glen, IL 60491
Phone: (708) 301-9933

Registration: 8:00 am - 8:30 am
Course: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

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This course is 8.0 CE contact hours (IL). We will have a 1/2 hour lunch and limited breaks.
We recommend that you bring a lunch -- a small refrigerator and microwave will be available at the Education and Training Center in Homer Glen!

Tuition: $216

Seating is limited. Please register early!

Rehab Connections reserves the right to modify the content and the scheduled speakers when circumstances are beyond our control.

Rehab Connections is an approved continuing education sponsor through the State of Illinois; PT License No: 216-000101

Cancellations:
Registration fee, less a $50 administration fee per session, is refunded if notice of cancellation is received more than 10 days in advance of the CE event. Cancellations made less than 10 days in advance of the CE event date forfeit the entire tuition fee. Tuition can be transferred to another individual or another CE event, one time only. No transfer, refund or credit will be given for cancellation 3 days or less before the CE event, or when handouts or other CE event materials are available electronically, including but not limited to emailed or downloadable pdf documents.
All unapplied transfers and credits will expire September 26, 2026.

Rehab Connections reserves the right to cancel the CE event up to one week prior to the CE event. Rehab Connections will not be responsible for any charges incurred by the registrant due to the cancellation of the CE event, other than the CE event tuition.

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