The Movement Therapist Course

The aim of this course is to consolidate the use of the clinical reasoning process, detailed in Kinetic Control courses and to help you prioritise the choice and progression of exercise in motor control retraining.

Have you completed a series of our courses? This course will help you become a Kinetic Control Movement Therapist through the accreditation route at Keele University and gain 30 master level credits.

Course Outline

The course will focus on the assessment and diagnosis of uncontrolled movement, the clinical application and modification of retraining strategies and how these fit with other aspects of neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation.

In the real world, by the time a patient has a chronic or recurrent pain disorder there are:

• multiple tissues that are the source of symptoms
• multiple mechanisms of movement dysfunction - more than one site and direction of uncontrolled movement
• significant slow motor unit recruitment difficulties, linked to proprioceptive changes
• usually disuse atrophy problems due to disability and altered function
• multiple pain mechanisms present contributing to the overall adverse experience of pain
• behavioural & psycho-social factors that contribute to pain or appear as a result of pain

We will explore where to start and where not to start; when you can fast-track and when to hold back and how to develop appropriate strategies to use movement to influence pain disability and function

Key Features

Consolidation of clinical reasoning process to prioritise the choice and progression of exercise in motor control retraining

• Key principles of the contemporary models of movement dysfunction
• Framework for the diagnosis and classification of motor control changes
• Principles of assessment of give and restriction and retraining of motor control
• Relating movement faults to symptoms and disability and function
• Linking movement assessment to other physiotherapy concepts and modalities
• Revision of key area of assessment and retraining of motor control at cervical and lumbo-pelvic regions and shoulder girdle

Learning Outcomes

Following this course the student should be able to:

• Present and discuss a contemporary model of movement dysfunction
• Use a clinical reasoning framework for the diagnosis and classification of motor control changes
• Relate movement faults to symptoms and disability and function
• Plan, implement and modify treatment programmes according to the analysis & interpretation of assessment findings within a clinical reasoning framework
• Use a clinical reasoning process to prioritise the choice and progression of exercise in motor control retraining
• Link movement assessment to other physiotherapy concepts and modalities
• Modify the assessment and retraining of motor control at cervical and lumbo-pelvic regions and shoulder girdle as necessary for individual patients

Programme Outline

Consolidation of clinical reasoning process to prioritise the choice and progression of exercise in motor control retraining

• Key principles of the contemporary models of movement dysfunction
• Frameworks for the diagnosis and classification of motor control changes
• Principles of assessment of give and restriction and retraining of motor control
• Relating movement faults to symptoms and disability and function
• Linking movement assessment to other physiotherapy concepts and modalities
• Revision of key area of assessment and retraining of motor control at cervical and lumbo-pelvic regions and shoulder girdle