Strength Training Essentials for Physiotherapists

From Rehab to Training

Online + Face to Face Course Presented by John Contreras

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Gain the confidence and skill to strength train your patients.

Strength Training Essentials for Physiotherapists, delivered as a hybrid course (online modules + face to face practical session) provides clinicians with an easy to apply approach to the use of strength training within injury management and progressing towards return to activity. This course will guide you through the clinical reasoning, design and implementation of a comprehensive strength training and athletic development program for a range of common musculoskeletal presentations.

By exploring current rehabilitation and injury management guidelines, evidence-based exercises, concepts of exercise prescription and program design you will examine the role strength training plays within today’s biopsychosocial model of healthcare. This course looks beyond the initial phases of injury management to examine the use of strength training for a range of common musculoskeletal presentations in facilitating return to activity.

You will be guided through a number of online modules discussing the latest evidence base for injury prevention and management, motor learning and strength training exercises. Exercise technique and adaptations for different clinical populations and performance goals, clinical indications and their coaching is also discussed. You will then complete a practical, face to face workshop that covers the coaching and adaptation of a range strength & conditioning exercises suitable during injury rehabilitation as well as exploring the programming of strength training exercises for various clinical presentations. Lastly, on online Q&A session allows course attendees to further discuss aspects of the course material with course presenter. John Contreras.

Strength Training Essentials for Physiotherapists will have you ‘Monday ready’ to start coaching your patients with a novel approach to strength training.

This workshop is targeted to all health professionals routinely involved in the use of exercise therapy. This includes new and recent graduates, through to the experienced clinician looking to refresh their approach. All health and fitness professionals, students and new graduates are welcome.

Presenter: John Contreras (APA Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, S&C Coach. Pilates Coach & Educator). More info

Course Format

This workshop is delivered as a hybrid course consisting of Online Modules and a Face to Face Practical Workshop:

  • Online modules released 2 weeks prior Face to Face Workshop

  • Face to Face Practical Workshop (see schedule for dates/venues)

  • Online Q&A session 2 weeks following the Face to Face Workshop

  • PDF workbook and access to online resources

  • 3 months unlimited access to online content

    *Please note some scheduled courses may have a slightly different structure

3 steps to completing Strength Training Essentials for Physios

Step One: complete the Online Modules at your own pace.

  • Lecture 1: A Physio’s Guide to Strength Training

  • Lecture 2: Assessing Your Strength Training Patient

  • Lecture 3: Progressing from Rehab to Training

  • Lecture 4: Coaching Your Patients

  • Lecture 5: Strength Training Exercise Prescription

  • Lecture 6: Strength Training Program Design

Step Two: join the Practical Face to Face Workshop.

  • see schedule for dates and venues

  • Workshop 1: Strength Training Movement Skills

  • Workshop 2: Lower Body Strength Training

  • Workshop 3: Upper Body Strength Training

  • Workshop 4: Torso Strength Training

  • Workshop 5: Explosive and Reactive Strength Training

  • Workshop 6: Strength Training Case Study

  • Self Guided Practical Workshop - consolidate your learning

Step Three: view the Online Q&A Module

  • Q&A Online Module released 2 weeks following the practical workshop.

  • View John answer questions submitted from course participants.

  • Submit your question regarding any of the content vie email.

  • John will answer your questions and provide additional information/resources.

  • Contact John via email/video call if you have any specific questions.

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Course Presenter

John Contreras

B.Physio (Hons) B.Sc M.ExSci (S&C) M.Sports Physio

John is an APA Sports & Exercise Physiotherapists who graduated from The University of Melbourne in 2001. He completed a Master of Exercise Science (Strength & Conditioning) in 2011 from Edith Cowan University and a Master of Sports Physiotherapy from Latrobe University in 2016.