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(Re)Defining the Core: The Key to Functional & Corrective Exercise


Faculty:
David Lemke
Duration:
7 Hours 30 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
VLW020606
Brochure Code:
19396
Media Type:
Live Webcast
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Access for 90 day(s) after program date.

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Description

Clinicians understand that lasting pain relief and truly improved fitness depend on core stability and peripheral mobility. But long-term results are elusive! It is generally agreed that to have peripheral mobility, you must have core stability. Functional exercise is any exercise which acknowledges this and engages the body for this express purpose.

Participants in this experiential and hands-on workshop observe how sEMG explores the primary defensive bias governing the Central Nervous System, the body's true Core. Once we have observed this bias, which we’ll call the "Twist," we discuss how it leads to the most common functional problems. Rather than focusing on targeting areas for strength or stability, participants learn to correct movement dysfunction by directing appropriate exercise toward the CNS. These methods can be easily learned and applied by athletic trainers and related health and fitness professionals, massage therapists, physical and occupational therapists - anyone who uses exercise as part or all of their program. Participants will leave this seminar equipped with new knowledge and strategies to help move clients and patients through the vital steps toward lasting function: improved balance, coordination, and effortless posture.

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David Lemke Related seminars and products

NMT, sEMG Tech


Five years after a severe back injury in 1980, DAVID LEMKE, NMT, sEMG Tech, began his apprenticeship as a massage therapist in Canada. After 10 years of successfully treating thousands of pain sufferers, he had a breakthrough when information from a kinesiological surface electromyography (sEMG) evaluation led him to discover that single manipulation freed a borderline frozen shoulder and eliminated nearly all the pain – and the results lasted. Mr. Lemke eventually developed a unique model of functional assessment using sEMG.

Since the 1990′s, his treatment has been relied on by top performing athletes, dancers and martial artists, those recovering from orthopedic surgeries, and generally stressed individuals. As a passionate interest, Mr. Lemke has enjoyed working with select special education teachers treating motor coordination problems in children diagnosed with learning disabilities. He is a Certified Dartfish Video Coach and uses slow motion video analysis of biomechanics in athletics and rehabilitation. He has used kinesiological sEMG (computer aided muscle analysis) in testing of exercise equipment, devices, and new treatment procedures as well as trained hundreds of specialized massage therapists for physical therapy and complementary healthcare clinics. Mr. Lemke was the primary consultant to Champions Sports Medicine (Dr. P.Z. Pearce, Ironman Medical Director, Spokane, WA ) in the creation of their Biomechanics lab.

Learn more at www.davelemke.us


Target Audience

Massage Therapists (including Neuromuscular and Medical Massage Therapists), Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants,Occupational Therapists,Occupational Therapy Assistants, Exercise Physiologists, Athletic Trainers, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists

Outline

VITAL DEFINITIONS: ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF CORE COMMUNICATION  

  • Correctly defining the CORE is key to functional training
  • Rules of communication
  • How the technology explosion in healthcare impairs genuine communication
  • Why outcomes have not improved in an age of research data availability
  • The Definition Game: 10 ill-defined words we all rely on every day

LAB: KINESIOLOGICAL SURFACE EMG TESTING

  • Volunteers selected, skin preparation, system test
  • Single arm raise task in standing
  • Video and sEMG recording of test activity
  • We take requests: "Any movement you're curious about? Let's test it!"

MUSCLES 101

  • Learning how the CNS sees muscles
  • Reviewing sEMG data to observe "chains" vs. groups
  • Muscles, mood, and movement (Cuddy, et. al. i.e. current research review)
  • CNS perspective: Opposing chains with broken links
  • Implications of CNS as CORE: Motor learning in an always on, 24/7, learning, adapting system

 

WHAT IS THE CORE TWIST: HOW THE HUMAN MOTOR SYSTEM TRAINS ITSELF

  • Lower quarter symptoms - most common underlying pathologies -  the Core pattern as driver
  • Upper quarter symptoms - most common pathologies - the Core pattern as driver
  • Review of definitions from the Definition Game
  • How far off were we?
  • Recognizing the simple elegance of functional chains

TRAINING FUNCTIONAL CHAINS: EXERCISING OUT OF THE TWIST

  • Training vs. exercise: Targeting the CNS with structured, resisted movement
  • Opposing teams or an orchestra at work?
  • Crosstraining out of the Twist
  • Any exercise NOT countering the Twist is NOT Functional

LAB: THE FUNCTIONAL CHAIN GAME

  • Workshop it !
  • Demo and practice: XC Skiing, backwards resisted walking, etc.
  • Best of the group brainstorming: FCT demo and SkiX activity
  • Signs of success: Posture, balance, and youthful boldness

Objectives

  1. Describe how measurable (visible) pathologies correspond with underlying muscle patterns.
  2. Explain the concept of learned motor patterns driving tissue adaptation (Wolff's Law).
  3. Apply exercises which target the CNS to restore muscle inventory lost to compensation.
  4. Identify and correct defensive postural adaptation using a single integrated motion.
  5. Demonstrate movement strategies which are immediately and favorably integrated by the CNS, thus avoiding exercises which the body resists as "invasion."

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