Exploring Function
Two-day hands on course

Who is this course for?
PT's, DC's, ATC's, and Kinesiologists

SPEAKER BIO

Brian McEwan
P.T.

Brian McEwan is one of 5 partners of Gary Gray Physical Therapy, an affiliate of Accelerated Rehabilitation. He has worked the last 15 years with an emphasis in outpatient functional rehabilitation and biomechanics.

Brian McEwan provides 1 to 3 day continuing education seminars to hundreds of PT's, OT's, ATC's, MD's and DO's through his seminar series Exploring Function. Brian has been engaged in multiple speaking engagements with Gary Gray, Vern Gambetta, and multiple APTA chapter keynotes.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Therapists are faced daily with the task of optimizing the patient's rehabilitative environment for return to function. The task of ISOLATING involved segments versus INTEGRATING the functional chain is exceptional. Exploring Function seminars use interactive lecture and lab time to join functional biomechanics and exercise with functional testing. We will follow the functional chain from the foot to the shoulder in this course. Objective testing in the functional chain will be married with ideas for functional rehabilitative exercise and home programs which can be used to compliment current approaches in your clinic.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1:

8:00-9:00
9:00-10:30
10:30-10:45
10:45-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-1:00
1:00-1:30
1:30-2:00
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:15
3:15-3:45
3:45-4:15
4:15-4:30
4:30-5:00
5:00

Day 2:

8:00-8:15
8:15-8:45
8:45-9:00
9:00-10:00
10:00-10:15
10:15-11:00
11:00-12:00
12:00-1:00
1:00-1:30
1:30-2:00
2:00-2:15
2:15-2:30
2:30-2:45
2:45-3:15
3:15-3:30
3:30-4:00
4:00-4:45
5:00

Functional Biomechanics
Functional Muscle Function
Break
LAB: Dynamic Functional Stretching
The Total Body Functional Profile
Break
The Total Body Functional Profile
Functional Gait Analysis
LAB: Gait Analysis - Playing with the Planes
Functional Considerations for the Foot and Ankle
Break
Functional Manual Reaction: Foot and Ankle
ACL Rehabilitation and the Total Body Functional Profile
Patello-Femoral Considerations in Function
LAB: Functional Measurement with the TB Functional Profile
End Day 1

Review
Functional Low Back Considerations
Functionally Stimulating the Abdominal Musculature
Tweakology: Integrating the Low Back, Lower Extremities and Abdominals
Break
Functional Manual Reaction: Hip
LAB: Functional Evaluation Considerations, Start to Finish
Break
Functional Shoulder Analysis
Understanding the Hip-Trunk-Shoulder Relationship and TEX
LAB: Exploring Shoulder Function with TEX and the Hip relationship
The Closed Chain Shoulder
LAB: Exploring the Closed Chain
Functional Shoulder Facilitation
Break
LAB: Functional Shoulder Facilitation
Functional Applications
Wrap-up, End Seminar