Do you have the skills and confidence to assess, diagnose and safely rehabilitate a young athlete back to sport and 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. But where can you get that knowledge? Most undergraduate therapy courses do not include paediatric MSK modules to give you the experience you need to work with younger athletes and active kids.

Assessment, Diagnosis and Return to Play of the Adolescent Knee - What will you learn?

This fully online course will give you the skills and confidence to work with active kids and younger athletes. It will take you step by step through how to diagnose childhood knee pathologies, understand the anatomy of the younger athlete, learn about the risk factors associated with injury in this population group, and develop confidence in knowing when a young athlete is ready to safely return back to sport.

  • Understand the anatomy of the adolescent knee

  • Be confident in recognising different knee pathologies

  • Know the questions to ask the younger patient

  • Understand the risk factors associated with knee pathologies in the younger patient

  • Appreciate the differential diagnoses in knee pain presentations

  • Develop an understanding of rehabilitating the adolescent with knee pain

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

    2. Learning Outcomes

    1. Introduction

    2. Paediatric pathology quiz

    3. Anatomy of the paediatric skeleton

    4. Growing Pains

    5. Physeal injuries

    6. Osteochondroses

    7. Test your learning

    8. Paeds Pathology handout

    1. Knee intro

    2. Patellofemoral pain

    3. Mechanical knee pain

    4. OCD knee Infographic

    5. Apophyseal Injuries

    6. Osgood Schlatter's Disease patient information

    7. Differential diagnosis of the knee

    8. Assessment and Rehabilitation

    9. Isometric knee extension

    10. Wall squat

    11. Wall PGM clam

    12. Capacity testing and rehab

    13. Trunk capacity

    14. Summary

    15. Handout

    16. References

    17. Test your learning

    1. Feedback

    2. Free resources for you

    3. Active Kids Are Not Mini Adults

About this course

  • £49.00
  • 30 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

Why learn with Angela Jackson?

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

Youth Athlete Consultant Physio Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson is an experienced Youth Athlete Consultant physiotherapist dedicated to transforming the care of young athletes. 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. She has worked with national teams, Premier League football clubs, within county cricket, schools, and helped thousands of children return safely to sport following injury. She is the creator of Kids Back 2 Sport, a trusted information platform providing evidence-based guidance for parents, coaches, and teachers and a directory of experienced youth athlete health professionals to help get injured athletes safely back to sport. 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. Angela is the author of the highly acclaimed online and in person courses Kids Back 2 Sport: Assessment, Diagnosis and Return to Play in Youth Athletes. For nearly two decades she has consulted for the Cheshire Cricket Board, developing Ready 4 Cricket a unique online injury prevention programme and authored a chapter on “The Prevention of Lumbar Stress Fractures” in the recently released book Cricket Sports Medicine.

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