Exercises for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Overcoming Knee Injuries

The knee is the focus of an exercise program when it is injured but often ignored any other time.  More and more research has come out showing that the goal of the client should determine the knee exercise program compared to the presence or absence of injury.  If your client’s exercise goal is prevention of knee injuries, the exercises program differs from a client that is recovering from a knee injury.  If the client has had a knee injury and would like prevent a future knee injury, there is an exercise program that focuses on overcoming knee injuries.  It is important that the fitness professional know which exercises and exercise programs are best for their client depending on the goal of the client.  In this exercise and knee injury webinar, the fitness professional will learn three different knee exercise programs to help their clients that want to prevent a knee injury from occurring, rehabilitation a knee injury and overcome knee injuries by preventing them from happening in the future.

What you will learn in the Exercises for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Overciming Knee Injuries Webinar:

- 12 exercises to help prevent knee injuries

- 37 exercises to help your client recover from a knee injury

recommendation for fully rehabilitating you client from an ACL injury

- Why you should be getting your knee in jury clients doing leg extension exercises

- If all you are focusing on is squats to recover from a knee injury, then you are not helping your client fully recover from their injury

- 6 month exercise rehabilitation program for recovering from a knee injury

- Disccover the 3 reasons why you should have your clients have their knees pass their toes

- Learn 2 areas fitness professionals should be focusing on more than the kness passing the toes

- the most frequent knee injuries you will see

Continuing Education Credits:

• 1.0 CEC BCRPA
• 1.0 CMT CE/PD

What You Will Get:

- Video of the webinar that you can watch in the convenience of your computer at your own pace and as many times as you would like

- MP3 of the webinar so you can listen to the webinar and learn the exercises for knee injuries while in your car or listening to you iPod

To Register, click on “Add to Cart” button:

INSTRUCTOR:

Rick Kaselj – MS., B.Sc., PK, CPT, CEP, CES

Rick Kaselj specializes in exercise rehabilitation, post-rehab, active rehabilitation, exercise therapy and corrective exercise. He works in one-on-one and group rehabilitation settings, training people who have been injured at work, in car accidents and during sport activities. His clients and group exercise participants include a wide variety of individuals from healthy and special populations.  Rick has given over 233 presentations to 4531 fitness professionals and consumers across Canada while continuing to work in rehabilitation centers, physiotherapy clinics, fitness clubs and personal training studios.  Rick recently completed his Masters of Science degree focusing on corrective exercise and therapeutic exercise for the rotator cuff.  To reach Rick or learn about his exercise rehabilitation courses please visit http://www.ExercisesForInjuries.com

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ACL Survey Results

January 2009 – OrthoSupersite -  Thomas R. Duquin, MD; William M. Wind, MD; Marc S. Fineberg, MD; Robert J. Smolinski, MD; Cathy M. Buyea, MS

In 2006, a survey regarding anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction was mailed to physician members of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. A total of 993 responses were received from 1747 possible respondents (57%). The number of ACL reconstructions per year ranged from 1 to 275 (mean = 55). The most important factors in the timing of surgery were knee range of motion and effusion. Bone-patellar tendon-bone (BPTB) autograft was most commonly preferred (46%), followed by hamstring tendon autograft (32%) and allografts (22%). Five years earlier, BPTB grafts were more frequent and hamstring tendon and allografts were less frequent (63%, 25%, and 12%, respectively). A single-incision arthroscopic technique was used by 90%. Most allowed return to full activity at 5 to 6 months, with a trend toward earlier return for BPTB grafts; quadriceps strength was an important factor in the decision. There was limited experience (4%) with double-bundle and computer-assisted ACL reconstruction.
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