Active Kids Are Not Mini Adults

Assessment to Return to Play in Active Kids & Youth Athletes

The essential toolkit for working with sporty kids and youth athletes. Learn how to assess maturation and explore why the injury occurred so you can rehabilitate safely back to sport and how to educate them to keep them back playing injury free.

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Do you have the skills and confidence to know why a child is injured and help them to get safely back to play?

Children are not mini adults and have their own unique pathologies and require very different approaches to treatment and rehabilitation from health professionals with expertise in youth athlete development.

Get kids back 2 play

Learn at your pace in your space

This fully online course will give you the skills and confidence to work with active kids & youth athletes in NHS, clinic and academy settings

It will take you step by step through how to assess, understand the athlete's maturation status, learn how to comprehensively assess an athlete's potential for injury through screening tools, capacity testing, measuring workload and be able to safely return them back to sport.

The course will take around 7.5 hours to complete

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What will you learn?

This is the essential toolkit you need for working with active kids and youth athletes

Be confident in identifying the maturation status of the child so you can accurately diagnose childhood MSK pathology
Learn to assess the capacity of the younger active patient through MSK screening tools so you can create great treatment plans
Develop a greater understanding of youth athlete development
To be able to implement appropriate exercise programmes based on the findings of the assessment to create great outcomes
Be able to recognise stress fractures, signs of overtraining, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs)and serious pathology in this unique population group
Learn how to assess when an athlete is ready & confident to return to sport/play
Learn the impact of poor nutrition, sleep, workload management and stress on injury rates and performance so you can educate the athlete team

Why learn with Angela Jackson?

Ex-athlete : Physio with 35 years experience : Mum to 2 international athletes

Youth Athlete Consultant Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson is a Chartered Physiotherapist dedicated to transforming how young athletes are supported. With over 35 years of experience, she is on a mission to raise awareness that young athletes are not simply "mini adults" with unique anatomy and physiology which demands specialised approaches to injury prevention and rehabilitation. Her career has taken her from the UK to Canada supporting national teams, Premier League Football clubs, schools and thousands of injured children helping them get safely back to sport. She is the founder of Kids Back 2 Sport, a trusted information platform for parents, coaches, teachers and health professionals providing evidenced based guidance to support injured athletes. A passionate educator, Angela regularly shares her extensive knowledge and experience through workshops, conferences, and courses to raise the standard of care for younger athletes.

Course curriculum

1. Welcome to the course
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2. How to get the most out of the course
3. Learning objectives
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4. Practitioner Terms and Conditions
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5. Why do kids get Injured?
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1. Communicating with the child
2. Explain pain
1. Pre Assessment Questionnaire
2. Understanding the child and why they are injured
3. Assessing workload
4. Asking around the non sport stressors
5. Asking the tricky questions
6. Subjective Assessment handout
7. Test your learning
1. Growth and maturation
2. Calculate predicted adult height
3. Assessing predicted adult height infographic
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4. Growth and maturation ebook
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1. Keeping the injured athlete sane
2. Test your learning
1. Objective screening form
2. Should we screen the younger athlete?
3. Developing movement literacy
4. Screening the injured athlete
5. Establish baseline capacity
6. Test your learning - Why do we screen
7. Youth athlete screening handout
8. References for Why we screen youth athletes
1. Calf strength
2. Glut bridge
3. Hamstring bridge v glut bridge
4. Bridge on box
5. Single leg sit to stand
6. Lateral sling activation
7. Abs and breathing assessment and progressions
8. Side bridge progressions
9. Adductor squeeze test
10. Adductor strength
1. Static v dynamic Balance
2. Single leg athletic ready posture
3. Modified Y test
4. Dynamic reactive balance training
1. Assessing movement competency
2. Athletic ready position
3. Squat progressions
4. SLDL
5. SLDL + ball pick up
6. Balance plus thoracic rotation control
7. Split squat & lunge progressions
1. Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb in Adolescent athletes
2. GH rotation
3. Shoulder Mobility testing
4. Prone bridge progressions
5. CKUEST
6. Upper Limb Y Test
7. Pull patterns
8. Shoulder Warm Up Activation
9. Prehab Guys Shoulder Activation
10. Bern Consensus Statement 2022 Infographic
11. Test your learning - Upper Limb
1. Breathing and active kids
2. The Oxygen Advantage
1. Screening rotational control
2. Throwing mechanics
3. Thoracic rotation
4. Hip rotation prone
5. Hip rotation supine
6. Rotation dissociation
1. Assessing and developing power and reactive strength
2. Paterno - does confidence predict a 2nd ACL
3. Hop tests
4. Developing tendon stiffness and reactive strength
5. Countermovement jump
6. Tuck jump Assessment
7. Drop jump
8. Multidirectional hopping
9. Activate and warm up with plyos
10. Plyometric exercises
11. Single leg strength
12. Developing tendon stiffness in overhead athletes
1. Mobility v stability
2. Fabers
3. SLR stability test
4. Hamstring lumbar dissociation
5. Hamstring standing
6. Long sitting slump
1. Test your learning - see new module Youth Athlete LBP
1. Rehab of Lower Limb Overuse Injuries
2. Assessing apophysitis
3. Management of Lower Limb Apophysitis
4. Isometric knee extension
5. Wall squat
6. Adductor Squeeze Testing
7. Osgood Schlatters Patient Booklet - AJ
8. Aalborg Osgood Schlatters handbook
9. Sever's patient booklet
10. Aalborg PFP handbook
11. Rehab of Acute Apophyseal Avulsion Injuries
12. ASIS Apophyseal Avulsion Protocol
13. Test your learning - Rehab of Apops
1. Creating a successful treatment plan
1. Return to play
2. Capacity testing and rehab
3. Return to running - Tom Goon
4. Test your learning
1. How much is too much
2. How to measure workload
3. Plan for recovery
4. Fuel for performance
5. Train the brain
6. Educate the team
7. Educate the athlete quiz
1. Congratulations on completing the course
2. Kids Back 2 Sport Clinician information

About this course

£150.00
114 lessons
11.5 hours of video content

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Assessment to Return to Play in Active Kids & Youth Athletes

Do you have the skills and confidence to know why a child is injured and help them to get safely back to play?

Learn at your pace in your space

Find out more

What will you learn?

Why learn with Angela Jackson?

Youth Athlete Consultant Angela Jackson

Course curriculum

Introduction

Communicating with children

Subjective assessment of an athlete

Growth and maturation

Keeping the injured athlete sane

Assessing Active Kids

Lower Limb Capacity Testing

Assessing Balance

Assessing Movement Competency

Assessment and Rehab of the Adolescent Shoulder

Breathing in active kids

Assessing Rotational control

Assessing & Developing Power & Reactive Strength

Mobility versus stability

Lumbar Bone Stress Injuries - see new 2024 module Youth Athlete Low Back Pain

Assessment and Rehabilitating Apophyseal Injuries

Creating successful treatment plans

Return to play

Educate the athlete

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