Lower & Upper Body Assessments
by Gary Ward
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What's Covered In This Assessment Course?
Welcome
Measuring Resting Pelvic Posture - (Sagittal Plane)
FREE PREVIEWMeasuring Resting Pelvic Posture - (Frontal Plane)
Measuring Resting Pelvic Posture - (Transverse Plane)
Measuring Resting Pelvic Posture - Document Your Findings
Dynamic Pelvic Posture
Resting Knee Posture - (Sagittal Plane)
Resting Knee Posture - (Transverse Plane)
Dynamic Knee Posture
Resting Foot Posture - 3D Observation
Dynamic & Resting Foot Posture - Foot Tripod
Dynamic & Resting Foot Posture - Poor Mans Foot Scan (PMFS)
Active & Passive Toe Dorsi Flexion
Foot Bone Palpation - Medial Border Opening/Closing
Resting Pelvis - Impact On Lumbar Spine
Resting Spine & Skull Assessments
Dynamic Spine & Skull Assessments
Full Shoulder & Scapula Assessment
Step One: Re-education Of A Pronating Leg & Wall Cogs
Step Two: Re-education Of A Supinating Leg
Step Three: Encouraging Leg Hip Hike & Left Leg Pronation
Step Four: Encouraging A Left Leg Supination
Final Reassessment
Summary & Closing Comments
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You will have looked at the 3D biomechanics of each joint and considered what is missing and how to restore the missing motion using the integrated movement patterns determined by the joint surface anatomy as discussed in the two courses. Now we bring to the table the idea of assessing the movements to specifically work out which movements are the movements required to restore the missing motion, teaching the body to Find Centre and create an environment for healing to take place.
In this course Gary assesses Harry’s pelvis, lumbar spine, thoracic spine, ribage, cervical spine and skull position as well as his scapulae and GHJ. Add to this Harry’s hips, knees, ankles and feet, introducing Gary’s “Poor Mans Footscan”.
It is also the first time that we bring the upper and lower body together and see how the two courses begin to talk to each other.
This course is designed to bring together our two online education courses while introducing a process of assessment and interaction to 1) enhance the thought process we work with at AiM and 2) the content of both of our courses.
The intention of this course is to take the joint anatomy and movements that we learnt in relation to the lower limb (pelvis, hip, knee, ankle, foot) and the Upper Body (pelvis, lumbar, thoracic, ribcage, cervical, skull, scapulae, shoulder, elbows, wrists) and begin to think beyond the concepts to develop usage of the system.
The purpose of the first two courses was to introduce closed chain biomechanics – things do not always work the same when standing up and in motion – so that you as a practitioner can begin to look for the specific anatomical motions that a person is able to do or that are missing in their every day movements.
Integrated into whole body movements, we get to see how the biomechanics come together to form natural movements based on the walking gait cycle. Is your patient able to move into a pronating leg shape? Are they not? How might we assess that?
Here, now, in this course, I introduce to you a way of assessing each structure and determining the movements that the body is capable of and not. The assessment is split into two elements: 1) Resting postural assessment of each joint in all three dimensions of potential & 2) Dynamic postural assessment of each joint in all three dimensions of potential.
This give us a resting posture of the pelvis, which should, for example, give us solid insight into the resting position of both the hips and the lumbar spine, while a dynamic assessment informs us of exactly how that person is able to move when the constraints of their resting posture
Think back to the movement spectrum that Gary drew up countless times already. If not centred, then how effective can a joint’s movement be? In essence we are assessing the person’s position on the spectrum of each joint and in each dimension. It’s static perceived centre position on that spectrum and it’s potential to move around it.
All of this informs us of movements we like to do, movements we favour, movements we rely on while contrasting to movement’s we avoid, movement’s we cannot access and movement’s we simply did not even know were possible.
Giving the body access to movement at each joint in all three dimensions creates the possibility for the body to reorganise itself around it’s new movement potential leading to postural change and freedom of movement.
Now we have moved into assessment, you may begin to realise that everything soon becomes an assessment, a game of consistently assessing and checking back to see what remains the same and what changed. Putting new movement into the system will always guide the body back to a more efficient, energy conserving and effective way of being.
4 Hours of CPD points with this course
Really useful- esp when getting specific muscles to engage in patients
Really useful- esp when getting specific muscles to engage in patients
Read LessHelpful to see assessments and corrections on students with varying physical differences - created understanding.
Helpful to see assessments and corrections on students with varying physical differences - created understanding.
Read LessThis is probably about my third or fourth time going through this particular course (live in Santa Cruz 2020, Live in Tacoma 2023, and Online) and I always g...
Read MoreThis is probably about my third or fourth time going through this particular course (live in Santa Cruz 2020, Live in Tacoma 2023, and Online) and I always get something new out of it. Thank you Gary!
Read LessThe discovery of my feet and 'cog' relationship right up through the body has opened my eyes to so many things as a running coach and 'person of pain'. What...
Read MoreThe discovery of my feet and 'cog' relationship right up through the body has opened my eyes to so many things as a running coach and 'person of pain'. What seems so intuitive (now) was hidden in plain sight before.
Read LessI am Gary ward founder of Anatomy in Motion and creator of the Flow Motion Model ™. I'm the author of What The Foot & I teach, treat, travel and parent!
This work came about out of a deep curiosity of mine to understand HOW things move..... (read more)
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