EMG Course Details
Course Rationale:
Biomechanical, morphological and muscle activation studies are providing us with a better understanding of the specific muscular dysfunction associated with musculoskeletal injury and disease. The benefit of this knowledge is that assessment protocols can be made more stringent, and treatment and rehabilitation programmes more specific in targeting deficits in neuromusculoskeletal performance. This should make the rehabilitation process shorter and there is developing evidence that it may help reduce recurrence of dysfunction.
The therapist, though, is presented with new challenges – How to assess such specific elements of motor control? How to ensure that exercises are, indeed, specific and helpful? How to teach patients new and better motor recruitment strategies and how to monitor their progress?
Biofeedback is the key. Surface electromyography (sEMG) provide accurate and discreet measures of neuromuscular performance that are invaluable in specifically assessing and rehabilitating these disorders. In many case it allows you to identify the exact nature of the patient’s underlying movement fault and so prioritise your treatment accordingly. It allows you to assess the specificity of, and the patient’s performance of, your exercises and to assess the effect of your manual therapy and intervention on movement control. Finally it provides valuable and precise feedback to the patient as they attempt to correct these faulty movement patterns.
Course Programme:
The course will investigate the use of surface EMG in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of shoulder, knee and cervical dysfunction and disorders of the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex. The course will be largely practical in content but will introduce each area with a literature-based discussion of the stability demands and common patterns of dysfunction related to that area. This will guide the biofeedback investigation and assist in the interpretation of the findings.
COURSE TIMETABLE
08:45 - REGISTRATION
09:00 - Practical; Introduction to the use of Semg Principles of Rehabilitation
10:00 - BREAK
10:15 - Dynamic Stability of the Patellofemoral Joint Practical: Using sEMG Around the Knee / Hip
11:45 - Dynamic Stability of the Cervical Spine Practical: Using sEMG in Cervical Dysfunction
12:30 - LUNCH
13:15 - Dynamic Stability of the Shoulder Complex Practical: Using sEMG Around the Shoulder
15:00 - Dynamic Stability of the Trunk
15:30 - BREAK
15:45 - Practical: The use of sEMG in Trunk Rehabilitation
1630 - CLOSE
