Trust Your Eye: Learn to look through the perspective of posture, gait and balance, for weaknesses and inflexibilities and even shapes and contours that contribute to asymmetry in the normal movement pattern. Asymmetry leads to structural vulnerability, dysfunction and pain. This is visible and changeable by simple gait corrections and corroborative exercises. Who Should Attend: This seminar is ideal for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, athletic trainers, Pilates teachers and any health professionals with strong anatomy background. Why You Would Take This Class: Reduce Treatment Frequency. This is a patient education system, as well as a way to evaluate, source and treat the cause of the problem, so that it doesn’t resurface. Patients/clients learn how with a mere hint of the problem, they can address it immediately themselves, using their specific gait corrections and exercises. Their symptoms become a built in biofeedback system.

Its Global. Corrective gait applies to almost all structural pain. Since clinicians also walk, they learn best through their own walking how individual gait dictates strengths and weaknesses. For patients with multiple aggravated body parts, this is a technique that connects and addresses all of them at once: In order to balance a sore and participatory link of any gait moment, you must assess the relationships between it and all of the other joints of the body for their contributions to the same gait moment. This makes this system the perfect prevention strategy; one that can often eliminate less constructive alternatives like bracing, surgery or extreme drugs.

Objectives

Pathomechanics:

• Gait Mechanics review; Mechanically Effective Gait
• Individual Gait Development or Etiology
• Understand relationships between Gait Deviations and Structural Pain
• Describe the strategic gait compensations, or deviations that reflect pathology and predispose pain patterns

Evaluation:

• Evaluate Static Posture as a predictor of Dynamic Posture in Gait
• Understand the Role of Symptoms in the Evaluative Process
• Translate Your Evaluation to Specific Gait Corrections
• Analyze each Weight-bearing Joint as it contributes to Dynamic Posture in Gait
• Educate Patients/Clients on their Individual Findings

Treatment:

• Utilize Corrective Walking as a Treatment Modality
• Treat the Source instead of treating the Symptoms
• Corroborate Assessment Findings with Appropriate Exercises, designed to simulate Specific Gait Moments
• Learn to Utilize Kinesio Tape to reinforce the Gait Corrections for Faster Assimilation.

Rehabilitation:

• Educate patients to ‘Read’ their own bodies for Vulnerabilities and to stay current with their Gait Corrections
• Educate patients to ‘Read’ and modify Exercise Programs and to incorporate the New Awareness into their Activities of Daily Living

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On Saturday, I’m teaching Using Yoga Therapeutically. This class is a gorgeous overview of the connections between yoga and therapy. Whether you’d like to understand something about your own yoga practice, or for your students, clients ,or patients, you will enjoy the depths of this class. And on Sunday, join me for Walk This Way at EHS Pilates 1425 Valencia St from 1-3pm, all are welcome. THIS class is a perfect quick glimpse into walking yourself well. Learn how specific ways that we walk can engage, or not engage our core, and all of our other joint stabilizing capacities. Explore how being ‘grounded’ is reflected, in how we walk. 

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Course Description: Yoga is a 5000 year old self-awareness technology, which uses mechanically brilliant exercises (postures), to balance and heal the body, to calm the nervous system and to quiet the mind. The process of learning includes alignment, strength and flexibility as some of the integral structural components. These, along with focused mind body connections and breath work, are the mainstays of all yoga styles. In this workshop, we will literally and comprehensively move through all of the basic yoga postures to understand and experience their mechanics and their relationships to normal and stable movement patterns. We will also discuss their capacities for healing specific injuries, and the healing power of the yoga process. No prior yoga experience is required, and some anatomy background is helpful.

CEUs/PDUs/Contact Hours: A certificate of attendance will be presented to each participant for 7.0 contact hours. The California Education Connection is recognized by the NATA Board of Certification to provide continuing education for certified athletic trainers. The NATABOC approved provider number is P2959. This course will also assist in completing the required continuing education for the Yoga Alliance. The NSCA Certification Commission Executive Council approved 0.7 CEUs for CSCS and NSCA-CPT certificants attending this event. California Education Connection is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. This course is eligible for 0.7 CEUs from the AOTA. The AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. This course will also count toward the PDU requirement for OTRs / COTAs in the State of California. Click here for Information and Registration!