ConnectTherapy™ & the Thorax - Sydney

Connect The Whole Body & Optimize Performance With ConnectTherapy™ & the Thoracic Ring Approach™
4 Day Format

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The thorax forms the largest region of the spine and trunk and is essential for respiration while ensuring effective transfer of loads through the kinetic chain for optimal whole body function and performance. Trunk rotation and rotational control are essential for performance in many functional and sports activities. While much “core stability” has focused around the lumbar spine and pelvis, the thorax is the centre of trunk rotation, and all of the abdominal muscles are innervated from the thorax. A dysfunctional thorax can drive asymmetrical abdominal function, making it difficult to achieve symmetry and balanced rotational control no matter what the cues or training activity.

Based on her clinical ideas and research work on the thorax over the past 15 years, Dr. LJ Lee has proposed multiple mechanisms by which a dysfunctional thorax can be the “Primary Driver” for pain and problems anywhere from your head to your toes – including pelvic girdle pain, groin pain / hip impingement, incontinence, disc injuries, lower extremity overuse syndromes such as Achilles tendinopathy, head and neck pain, and shoulder girdle dysfunction. Thus, a patient with a dysfunctional thorax can present with a wide variety of symptoms and functional problems.

The innovative Thoracic Ring Approach explains these connections and provides a clinical reasoning approach and new manual assessment techniques to determine when the thorax is the primary driver and essential to treat in order to alleviate problems elsewhere in the kinetic chain. On this 4-day course, you will learn the manual skills and clinical reasoning framework of the Thoracic Ring Approach and ConnectTherapy to determine when the thorax is or is not the primary driver for pain or reduced performance during whole body movements. These skills provide the base to examine the thoracic rings across a wide variety of meaningful tasks. Specific thoracic ring treatment techniques developed by LJ will be practiced, and an introduction to the 3 phases of specific exercise training and program design for optimal neuromuscular control and loading of the thoracic rings will be discussed.

These techniques are applicable to wide range of patient populations, from patients experiencing back pain and loss of arm function post-cardiac surgery to elite athletes aiming to optimize performance.

This course is the pre-requisite for the course Advanced Thoracic Ring Control – Exercise Prescription & Program Design in The Thoracic Ring Approach™ and ConnectTherapy™

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  • Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Date(s): October 28-31, 2020
  • Duration: 4 Days
  • Cost: $2,035 AUD (incl 10% GST)

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