Youth Athlete Low Back Pain

This comprehensive online course will take you step by step through how to assess, diagnose, and rehabilitate a young athlete with a lumbar bone stress injury.

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40% of young athletes with low back pain have a bone stress injury

An early diagnosis is critical to improve the potential for bone healing and to minimise the time out of sport

Extensive videos of all assessment and rehabilitation exercises with a comprehensive rehabilitation protocol. Learn what factors are associated with an increased risk of injury and how to manage these in an extensive Educate the Athlete module.

Help young athletes get safely back to sport

Learning Outcomes

Learn to assess, diagnose and rehabilitate young athletes with low back pain with confidence

Understand what a bone stress injury is
Learn how to educate the athlete and the athlete team
Understand the causes of LBP in youth athletes
Help you to assess and diagnose lumbar bone stress injury
Understand the risk factors associated with lumbar bone stress injuries
Be confident in rehabilitating a lumbar bone stress injury back to sport
Understand how to prevent low back pain in junior athletes
Understand the incidence of LBP in adolescents

Course curriculum

1. How to get the most out of the course
2. Practitioner Terms and Conditions
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3. Handout for course Youth Athlete LBP
4. References
1. Introduction to Low Back Pain in Youth Athletes
2. Intro quiz
1. Lumbar Bone Stress Injuries in youth athletes
2. LBSI quiz
1. Subjective Assessment - Ask the Right Questions
2. Bone Stress Questionnaire Download
3. IOC RED-s consensus statement 2023
4. Ask the right questions quiz
1. Assessment of a youth athlete with LBP
2. Lats Abs and breathing assessment
3. Glute bridge assessment
4. Trunk strength and endurance
5. Active trunk extension
6. Assessment quiz
1. Do we need to scan young athletes with LBP
2. Infographic for MRI v early therapeutic intervention
3. MRI pathway
4. Imaging quiz
1. Rehabilitation priorities following a lumbar bone stress injury
2. Phases of rehabilitation for a lumbar bone stress injury
3. Return to sport protocol LBSI Grade 2
4. Terminal stage bone stress injuries
1. Breathing assessment
2. Supine abs progressions
3. Lats length on wall
4. Hamstring lumbar spine dissociation
5. Rehabilitation quiz
1. All 4's progressions
2. Hamstring dissoc standing
3. Single leg deadlift
4. Glute bridge assessment
5. Glute bridge re-education with laser
6. Thoracic rotation
7. Trunk pelvis dissociation
8. Bowling bow and turn
9. Long arm prone bridge progressions
10. Side bridge progressions
11. Adductor strength
1. Assessing the demands of the sport
2. Physical demands of throwing
3. Physical demands of pace bowling - How do they run in?
4. Physical demands of pace bowling - Back Foot Contact
5. How to reduce ground contact time
6. Physical demands of pace bowling - Can they brace?
1. Return to play - From control to chaos
2. Trunk endurance tests and progressions
3. Trunk extensor endurance test
4. Trunk flexion endurance test
1. Why do injuries occur?
2. How much is too much?
3. How to boost a children's capacity to do more?
4. Educate the Athlete quiz
5. Let's talk about Youth Athlete Low Back Pain Patient handout
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6. Patient and parent guide to LBSI
7. Let's Talk About Why Kids Get Injured
1. More resources for you
2. Your feedback is essential to making this course better for others

About this course

£49.00
61 lessons
4.5 hours of video content

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