Building the Ultimate Back

From Rehabilitation to Ultimate Performance with Dr Stuart McGill 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To update participants on the most recent developments in clinical biomechanics of the lumbar spine – specifically how it works and how it becomes injured
• To provide guidance in the application of this knowledge to the clinic, workplace, rehabilitation center, and training facilities to reduce the risk of injury, and optimize rehabilitation and performance enhancement
• To enhance skill in client assessment and corrective/therapeutic or performance enhancing exercise.

COURSE OUTLINE

Building the Foundation

• Dispel the myths about how the spine works and becomes injured.
• Anatomical, biomechanical and motor control perspectives are provided for the various clinical approaches

Interpreting Patient Presentation

• Understand and identify aberrant motion and motor patterns and possibilities for corrective exercise.
• Provocative tests are developed and workshopped to guide optimal exercise design. 

Rehabilitation Exercise

• Exercises are examined together with approaches to arrange progressions from corrective and therapeutic exercise that translate to function.
• Algorithms for choosing the best exercise approach for each individual are provided.
• Clinical technique is honed to eliminate pain.

Training for Performance

• Training the back for performance (either athletic or occupational) requires different approaches and objectives than training to fulfill rehabilitation objectives.
• Some of the techniques developed in our work with world class athletes (eg: golf, MMA, Strongman, Track and field, Football, etc) will be introduced and discussed within the context of valid mechanisms and evidence. These include the progressions from establishing motor control patterns, through to stability, endurance, strength, speed and power.
• Formalization of some of the performance "tricks" including how to get through "sticking points", and developing "superstiffness" will be described and practiced.

Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada). His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts and elite athletes and teams from around the world. Difficult back cases are regularly referred to him for consultation. 

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