Become a safer, more effective clinician

Kids are not mini adults and without specialist knowledge growth related injuries can be misdiagnosed causing potential long term misery for the child & your reputation 

Early diagnosis is key

Youth athletes commonly have a lumbar bone stress injury & yet this is rare in adults meaning it is often missed at the bone stress response stage resulting in stress fractures and longer out from sport

Re-injury rates for youth athletes are high

Traditional rehab may not address the changes in the body and brain after injury and fail to replicate the demands of the child's sport resulting in high rates of re-injury. Learn how to change that in this course.

A comprehensive online course taking clinicians step by step through youth athlete assessment, diagnosis and return to play 

The skeleton does not fully mature until humans are around 23 years of age. Understanding the timing of ossification is imperative to accurate diagnosis. You will learn how to assess maturation and how that related to pathologies such as apophyseal injuries.  We will cover how to integrate neurocognitive rehabilitation into treatment after ankle sprains and ACL injuries to ensure patients do not become visually dependant. We will consider how changes in the brain after injury affect the approach to rehab and how to motivate children to do exercises.  We will examine how some children with slower processing may be more at risk of injury and how to adapt rehab to address that. You will develop the confidence in knowing when the athlete is ready to return to play and how to keep them back doing what they love. This highly engaging online course is built for busy clinicians who want to learn where, when and at the pace that suits them

Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson is an experienced Youth Athlete Consultant physiotherapist dedicated to transforming the care of young athletes. 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, teachers, and health professionals. A passionate educator, Angela is the author of the course Kids Back 2 Sport: Assessment, Diagnosis and Return to Play in Youth Athletes and regularly lectures worldwide delivering workshops and at conferences.  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.

Curriculum

25 Chapters · 219 Lessons

    1. Introduction Free preview
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      How to get the most out of the course

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      Practitioner Terms and Conditions

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Introducing Kids Back 2 Sport

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      Welcome to Kids Back 2 Sport

    6. Learning objectives Free preview
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      Download the QR sheet of Kids Back 2 Sport resources

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      Kids are not mini adults

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      MSK Paediatric Anatomy

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      Injuries to the Epiphyseal-Metaphyseal Complex

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      Injuries to the Secondary Ossification Centres

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      Timing of ossification

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      Kids Are Not Mini Adults handout

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      Let's Talk About the Timing of Skeletal Ossification handout

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      Inconsistencies and Imprecision in the literature - Caine et al 2022

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      The adolescent growth spurt

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      Assessing maturation

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      Biobanding children by maturation not age

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      How to calculate predicted adult height

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      Let's talk about growth and maturation ebook

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      Growth and maturation handout

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      Growth and maturation quiz

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      Osteochondroses

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      What is an injury at the apophysis?

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      Apophysitis of the foot and ankle

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      Apophysitis at the knee

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      Assessment of apophysitis

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      Rehab of Apophysitis - Educate and Activity Modification

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      Rehab of Apophysitis - Increase capacity to tolerate load

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      Apophyseal injuries of the knee and foot handout

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      Wall slide assessment test for monitoring lower limb apophyseal injuries

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      Hamstring lumbar spine dissociation

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      Isometric knee extension

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      Wall squat

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      Aalborg Osgood Schlatters handbook

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      Capacity testing

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      Avulsion injuries

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      Common pelvic avulsion injuries

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      Rehab of apophyseal avulsion injuries

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      Lower limb avulsion injury handout

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      Test your learning - Growth related injuries

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      Kids Back 2 Sport athlete and parent resources

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      Pre Assessment Questionnaire

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      Building trust in the adolescent athlete

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      Be a detective

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      Why do some athletes get more injuries?

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      Asking the right questions

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      Subjective handout

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      Test your learning - Subjective

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      Bone stress injuries - what are they?

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      Bone stress injuries - risk factors

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      Bone stress injuries - high risk sites

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      Bones stress injuries - management

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      Test your learning - bone stress injuries

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      The Importance of Energy Balance

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      The multi-systemic impact of low energy availability

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      Recognising Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports

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      Not all low energy availability is equal

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      Diagnosing and managing Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports

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      IOC Consensus statement on RED-s

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      REDs CAT 2 Screening tool

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      Handout for module on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports

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      Let's Talk About Low Energy Availability - REDs

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      REDs quiz

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      Introduction to Low Back Pain in Youth Athletes

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      Is LBP always a bone stress injury?

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      Risk factors for lumbar bone stress injuries

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      Objective Assessment of Lumbar Bone Stress Injuries

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      Active trunk extension

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      Glute bridge assessment

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      Breathing assessment

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      Angel Wings on wall

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      Diagnosing a lumbar bone stress injury

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      Management of lumbar bone stress injuries

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      Stage 1: Protect

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      Supine abs progressions

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      All 4's progressions

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      Hamstring dissociation

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      STAGE 2: RESTORE

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      Hamstring dissoc standing

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      SLDL

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      Long arm prone bridge progressions

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      Side bridge progressions

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      STAGE 3/4: Build Capacity

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      Glut bridge with motion guidance

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      Adductor strength

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      Prone stability ball

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      Single leg strength

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      Trunk extensor endurance test

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      Trunk flexion endurance test

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      Upper body lower body connection

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      Terminal bone stress Injuries

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      Educate the athlete with a LBSI

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      Return to sport protocol LBSI Grade 2

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      Youth Athlete LBP 26 Handout 1

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      Youth Athlete LBP 26 handout 2

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      Youth Athlete LBP 26 handout 3

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      Let's Talk About Youth Athlete Low Back Pain

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      LBSI Rehabilitation quiz

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      Anatomy and development of the hip

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      Primary cam morphology

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      Hip joint pathologies

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      Proximal femoral physis pathologies

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      Acetabular development and morphology

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      Assessing the adolescent hip

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      Groin pain in younger athletes

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      Iliopsoas related hip pain

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      Hip rotation assessment

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      Craig’s test

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      Modified Y test

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      Youth Athlete hip handout

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      Test Your Learning - Hip Pathology

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      Paediatric knee pathologies

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      Patellofemoral pain

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      Patellofemoral pain management

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      Athletic ready position

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      Aalborg PFP handbook

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      You do you - not all runners run the same

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      Patellofemoral pain handout

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      When it is not PFP

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      Mechanical knee pain

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      Juvenile Osteochondritis Dissecans

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      Test your learning - Knee pathology

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      Lateral foot pain

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      Posterior ankle pain

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      Lateral ankle sprain

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      Youth athlete foot and ankle handout

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      Test Your Learning - Foot and Ankle

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      Proximal humeral physeal injuries

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      If it's not LLS then what else might it be?

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      Management of youth athlete physical injuries

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      Youth athlete shoulder handout

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      Shoulder Mobility testing

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      Youth athlete medial epicondylar apophyseal injuries

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      Milking manoeuvre

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      Youth athlete wrist pain

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      Youth athlete finger injuries

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      Upper limb Y test

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      Closed Kinetic Upper Extremity Stability Test

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      Shoulder progressions

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      Dynamic upper limb test

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      Dynamic hop test

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      Upper Limb Test your learning

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      Growing Pains

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      When it is not growing pains

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      Differential diagnosis handout

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      Is it a mobility or stability problem?

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      Hamstring lumbar dissociation

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      SLR stability test

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      FABERS test - stability or mobility?

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      Testing the lateral trunk

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      Assessing rotational based sports

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      Assessing the demands of baseball pitching

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      The kinematic sequence

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      Assessing rotation handout

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      Thoracic rotation

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      Trunk pelvis dissociation

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      Sports specific hip test - tension arcs

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      Understanding the injured athletes

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      What is the mechanism of a non-contact injury?

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      How does the brain respond to an ACL injury?

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      Sensory reweighting

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      Who is more at risk of injury?

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      Train the Brain handout

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      Conscious to unconscious competence

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      Focus of attention

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      Creating an external focus using motion guidance

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      SLDL progressions

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      Is movement variability a positive?

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      Movement variability with Motion Guidance Laser

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      Movement is dynamic and complex

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      Perception changes movement

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      Building confidence: Enhanced expectancies

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      How to create motivation in youth athletes

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      Does your feedback build confidence?

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      Motor learning handout

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      What do they want to get back to?

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      What does Arthur need to be able to do to RTP?

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      Analyse the demands of their sport at the start of rehab

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      From control to chaos

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      Planning rehabilitation handout

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      From stability to variability

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      Contextual interference

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      Adding appropriate dual task to rehabilitation

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      Creating visual perturbation

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      Assessing visual dominance - SEBT

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      Synaptic eyewear and movement quality

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      What do Senpatec stroboscopic goggles do?

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      Perturbation

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      Perturbation examples

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      The Rehab Journey handout

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      Jump and hop testing

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      My Jump App 2

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      Countermovement Jump

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      Tuck Jump assessment

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      Drop jump

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      Multidirectional hop tests

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      Are the eyes dominant?

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      Jump and hop test handout

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      Individualising rehab and RTP

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      Summary of neurocognitive rehab

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      Why do injuries occur in children?

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      How much is too much?

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      Time to plan

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      Why is it my child that is injured and why now?

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      Do they eat enough for what they do?

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      Youth athlete low back pain

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      Growth related pain

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      Supporting the injured youth athlete

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      The 4 R's recovery pillars - Recharge the battery

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      The 4 R's recovery pillars - Refuel and Rehydrate

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      Top 10 tips for staying injury free

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      Educate the athlete handout

    13. (Included in full purchase)

      Let's Talk About Why Injuries Occur

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      Congratulations on completing the course

    2. How to become a Kids Back 2 Sport clinician Free preview
    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Kids Back 2 Sport Assessment

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Becoming a Kids Back 2 Sport practitioner

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Kids Back 2 Sport Clinician information

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“An excellent theoretical and practical course which included an abundance of up to date evidence. This has increased my confidence in treating young athletes and given me a wide range of exercise options to include in their rehab. An essential course for anyone working with sporty children.”
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“Angie’s case studies and her pearls of wisdom were particularly valuable making the learning relevant, elite and immediately applicable to practice.”
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Sports Physiotherapist

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