Strength & conditioning in rehab part 2 with Dr Claire Minshull

How can you use strength & conditioning principles in your patient’s knee, back or shoulder rehab? When you’re designing your patients rehab program, how can you place the right amount of load on an area to improve your patient’s strength, and help settle their symptoms? What exercises can you use? How can you progress their strength training as they improve, or back off their exercises in patients with irritable presentations, if symptoms flare up or they’re not quite ready to perform an exercise?

Discover how to incorporate upper or lower body strength training exercises and progressions in your patients rehab program, in Strength & conditioning in rehab part 2 with Dr Claire Minshull. You will explore exercise progressions to continue to improve patients strength, as well as starting level exercises and easier progressions for patients with irritable presentations, including:

• How to design strength-based rehab programs
• Compound vs isolation exercises
  • What are compound and isolation exercises?
  • How can you choose whether to use a compound or isolation exercise?
  • Common isolation exercises
  • Commonly used compound exercises
• Shoulder and upper body strength progressions and regressions
• How to prepare patients for dumbbell shoulder exercises
• Push-up progressions
• How you can incorporate strength exercises when range of movement is limited
• How to order elements of rehabilitation including strength, endurance, power
• What do you want to focus on in your early stage rehab
• Application of strength training principles in rehab
• Example knee OA program, including warm ups, exercises, sets and reps