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The LVL 2 certification teaches students to use a systematic assessment process to measure the joints tolerances and tracking. A purely individualized program is then designed from the data. Any joints outside of the physiological tolerances are restored to normal and safe tolerance’s via stretches and exercises. These stretches and exercises are programmed into the client’s goal and or sport specific program.

SCHEDULE
Three-Day Course / 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

DETAILS
Practical & Written Test Upon Course Completion

What Does a Musculoskeletal Assessment Tell Us?
Technology can show us what is happening during movement. A comprehensive musculoskeletal assessment helps us understand why it is happening.

EMG sensors can provide information about muscular activity and recruitment patterns. Force plates can quantify how an individual produces, absorbs, and distributes force. Both provide valuable data and can help identify asymmetries, compensations, and movement inefficiencies.

But identifying a movement dysfunction is only the beginning.

Before attempting to correct it, we need to determine what is driving that movement strategy. Is the individual moving that way because of a physical limitation—such as restricted joint mobility, tissue extensibility, or available range of motion? Or do they possess the necessary physical capacity, but demonstrate a learned movement strategy, coordination issue, or habitual pattern?

These are two very different problems, and they should not automatically receive the same intervention.

The DBC Orthopedic Assessment allows us to differentiate between what an individual physically cannot do and what they simply do not do during movement. That distinction provides us with the information necessary to make better decisions regarding corrective exercise, mobility, movement retraining, and ultimately performance programming.

Before we attempt to change how someone moves, we must first understand why they move that way in the first place.

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