Muscle Activation Course
Muscle Activation Course is organized by PT Seminars.
Course Description:
The goal of this webinar is for you to experience a paradigm shift. A paradigm shift occurs when a normal and customary way of seeing and doing something is replaced by a new and different way. Understanding muscle activation will give you the potential for a new perspective on active and passive range of motion, stretching, strengthening, flexibility, stability, muscle function, biomechanics, and human movement. Muscle activation may be a tool to advance patient progress even though you feel they reached a plateau.
Many clinicians are unable to define muscle activation, let alone comprehend how powerful and valuable it is in understanding normal muscle function. This webinar defines muscle activation based on neuromuscular anatomy. A brief discussion of the history of muscle activation and procedures used to quantify it will render a better understanding of the research literature that includes this term. Ample pictures, diagrams, and videos incorporated throughout the webinar will enhance the learning experience.
You will learn techniques to assess for loss of muscle activation (inhibition) and interventions available to restore muscle function. A plethora of clinical case presentations will ingrain the neuromuscular anatomy in your memory, allow you to make clinical correlations, and help visualize using the technique. Videos of muscle activation assessment and treatment are included in the webinar, accompanied by a handout describing the sequence in each video, so you can immediately begin practicing muscle activation.
This online certificate course for Physical Therapists & Occupational Therapists is a learning module taught by on-demand streaming video. At the end of the course, there will be a quiz. Upon successful completion of the quiz, a certificate confirming completion of the Muscle Activation Course will be issued.
Course Objectives:
• Identify the neuromuscular anatomy that defines muscle activation
• Identify procedures that quantify muscle activation
• Identify techniques for assessing loss of muscle activation (inhibition)
• Identify techniques for restoring muscle activation
• Identify new perspectives on customary procedures and assessments done by physical therapists
Course Outline:
• Defining muscle activation and inhibition
• Neuroanatomy of the muscular system as it relates to muscle activation
• Quantifying muscle activation
• Evidence-based practice supporting the importance of understanding and implementing muscle activation
• Assessment options to identify potential muscle inhibition
• Treatment options to activate muscles
• New perspectives on muscle testing, strengthening, stretching, flexibility, and chronic musculoskeletal pain with accompanying videos
• Summation of muscle activation pearls
• Q/A Session and Adjourn