High performance systems for athlete development

Description

Target Audience:
Sports physiotherapists, athletic trainers, movement specialists, strength & conditioning coaches, and sports medicine professionals.

Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will have an advanced understanding of:
-How leading professional sport organizations improve performance with evidence-based analysis
-Athlete-focused training: testing and training
-Longitudial evidence of athlete testing, injury pervention and performance

Course Schedule:
08:30–09:00 – Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00–9:45 High Performance KPI Toolbox
– Analytics and metrics
– Coaching
– Sports biomechanics
– S&C
9:45 – 10:45 Putting  all components of the athlete care together
– Role of Sports Medicine groups
– Role of Sport Science teams
– Mental Skills & Mental Health group
– Return to Play and Return to Sport
– Sports Nutrition
– Leaderhip and the Gatekeeper
– Training Methodology and Communication systems
10:45–12:30 Going more in depth: movement control, injuries and how to avoid them
– Training gaps,
– RTP schemes,
– Mechanical models,
– Drivers of injury,
– Movement control variables,
– Movement screens and maps
– Myopics and bias
– Triage versus clinical paradigms
– Modern sport competition demands
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:00 Athlete health testing and assessment
– Power of induction interviews
– Chronic versus acute injury management
– KPI identification and Hierarchical Rankings
– Fascia and joint hydraulics considerations
– Radiology, TMG, EMG
– Saliva, blood and urine analyses
– Programming, the power of contingencies and plan b
15:00–16:15 Role of the Brain in Pain, Threat Reduction and Fatigue
– Hardware versus software issues
– Structural remodeling
– Progressions and the power of mastery
– Essential screens and reprogramming items, Dribble Series, Rudiment Jump series
– Field tests versus clinical assessment
– Current trends with AI and machine learning
– The issue with timelines
16:15–17:00 Improving the various stages of RTP and RTS
– Silos
– Communication and knowledge gaps
– Assessment layers
– Over reliance on radiology and technology data