Fit and Functional

Functional Movement Evaluation, Anatomy, and Exercise Prescription

Course Overview

 .8 NASM | .7 ACE | NFPT 1

The objectives for this seminar are to provide attendees with an in-depth understanding of functional anatomy and how it affects our everyday movement patterns. Attendees will also learn common muscoskeletal dysfunction and compensation patterns, pathological movement patterns and their effects on human movement and pain. Functional dynamic muscular evaluations will be demonstrated and explained to help attendees identify compensatory patterns and possible injury causes that result from movement impairment syndromes. The third component of the seminar is teaching proper exercise selection when facing kinetic chain dysfunction and movement impairment syndromes. Also covered will be dynamic muscular evaluations, basic muscle testing and an introduction to fascial chain systems.

Course Objectives

1. To provide the attendees with a detailed and complete understand of functional anatomy.
2. To provide the attendees with functional dynamic muscular evaluations and an understanding of how to perform these evaluations so that they may be better suited to recognize movement impairment syndromes in their clients.
3. To provide the attendees with knowledge of proven strength training and rehabilitation methods so that they may be prepared to write and design programs when their clients display insufficiency.

Lesson Plan

Functional Anatomy

1. Attendees will be given a handout that includes a picture of the specific muscle to be studied with a brief analysis of the muscle action and its implications in pain and movement dysfunction
2. After each slide is read, the instructors will then describe in-depth the muscles primary actions and explain some of the common insufficiencies that occur if the muscle is inhibited or tight. This will be done until every major muscle of the upper and lower body has been covered.
3. Introduction to fascial chain systems.

Functional Dynamic Muscular Evaluations

1. Attendees will be given a handout that includes pictures and descriptions of each evaluation. They will then watch a power point presentation of this specific test.
2. The instructors will then use an attendee as an example to show a live presentation of the test.
3. Possible causes of muscular dysfunction and testing errors will be discussed.
4. Demonstration of basic muscle testing.

Program Design

1. Lastly, the attendees will view examples of programs that are aimed to deal with the evaluation findings. The instructors will critically examine the programs and point out strength and weaknesses of each program.
2. In addition, suggestions of possible exercises to correct muscular imbalances will be discussed and demonstrated so that the attendees may use these exercises immediately.