Level 1 Shoulder Course

This course offers the opportunity to gain extensive clinical insight into the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and progression of shoulder rehabilitation from a specialist shoulder physiotherapist. The course is extensively based on current research and provides “cutting edge” information as to new treatment techniques that are available as well as evidence-based practices that therapists can integrate. The course will provide the therapist with many mobilisation and taping techniques, that have immediate clinical application. It will also teach a logical assessment strategy for glenohumeral and scapulothoracic mechanics that will form a framework around which the therapist can diagnose specific muscle dysfunction and select appropriate rehabilitation strategies. The course provides the structure to allow for development of clinical reasoning skills applicable to many common shoulder pathologies. The course will also explore what is and what is not substantiated by research in common clinical practice both in conservative and surgical treatment of the shoulder. Lyn Watson of Melbourne, Australia is a Clinical Manipulative Physical Therapist and titled Sports Physiotherapist. She is Clinical Specialist at LifeCare Prahran Sports Medicine Centre and Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. Lyn has conducted clinical research into taping techniques, the frozen shoulder, hydrodilatation, thoracic outlet syndrome, glenohumeral joint instability, scapula biomechanics and clinical outcome measures. Lyn has published papers in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and British Journal of Sports Medicine on the Frozen Shoulder, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, scapular biomechanics and glenohumeral joint instability outcome measures. Since 1992 Lyn has conducted shoulder workshops throughout Australia, Canada, Asia, USA and the United Kingdom. Ms Watson also lectures on the Masters Manipulative Therapy and Sports programmes for both Melbourne and Latrobe Universities. For the last 16 years Lyn has worked exclusively in the area of the shoulder and is the clinical specialist in an elite surgical team. Lyn has developed extensive clinical experience in the diagnosis, assessment and rehabilitation of shoulder injuries and is a specialist consultant to the Australian Cricket Team. She has treated a wide range of elite athletes including Olympic swimmers, water polo players, tennis player and paddlers but also specializes in more common shoulder conditions such as rotator cuff pathologies and the stiff shoulder. Lyn has also conducted research into the long term clinical outcome of many surgical and conservative management strategies that are commonly employed. She has developed a unique, logical and progressive approach to assessment and rehabilitation techniques. Both the Level 1 and Level 2 courses have been fully accredited by the Australian Physiotherapy Association.

Tutor: Lyn Watson

Date: 20th and 21st May 2010

Duration: 2 days

Cost: £230

Venue: St Mary’s Hospital

Location: Paddington, London

Contact Name: Mrs Terry Smith

Contact Phone: 01202 706161

Contact Email: admin@macpweb.org

Web Link to Course: https://www.macpweb.org/home/index.php?p=23&id=92&page=1

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