Load Management in Fitness and Sport - How to manage stress to prevent injury and improve performance
By: American Chiropractic Association

Course Description

This lecture is designed to educate clinicians on how to effectively monitor load and develop recovery strategies in order to prevent injury and improve physical performance. During the course of this lecture participants will discuss the true nature of injury, and how to create a physiological buffer in order to efficiently reduce risk related to rate limiting factors that can limit physical performance. Additionally participants will review the physiology of the stress response and its relationship to adaptation, and how to use this information to create specific training doses of exercise that help athletes reduce their overall risk of musculoskeletal injury. Furthermore the participant will learn about the readiness / preparedness algorithm and how to specifically implement low cost strategies to measure and monitor acute, subacute, and chronic variables related to increases in training load that can lead to overtraining and potentially injury.


Course Outline:

1.Injury

2. Stress / Strain Curve

3. Physiological Buffer Zone

4. Underprepared vs Overstimulated

5. Load Management and Athlete Monitoring

6. Load

7. General Adaptation Syndrome

8. Homeostatis Manager

9. Overreaching vs Overtraining vs Overuse

10. Functional Threshold

11. Training Dose

12. Minimum Effective Dose vs Recommended Dose vs Maximum Tolerable Limit

13. Readiness vs Preparedness

14. Athlete Monitoring Algorithm

15. Training Load Filters

16. Acute Monitoring Variables

17. Training Load

18. Wellness Score

19. Readiness Quotient

20. Subacute Variables

21. Training Monotony

22. Training Strain

23. Weekly Training Load

24. Acute / Chronic Workload Ratios

25. Chronic Variables

26. Force Production

27. Range of Motion

28. Load Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Individual Athletes

29. Load Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Team Sport Athletes

30. Interpreting Results to Optimize Recovery Strategies


Learning Objectives:

1.Educate course participants in the true nature of musculoskeletal injury.

2. Educate course participants about the relationship between the stress/strain curve and injury.

3. Educate course participants about the importance of optimizing the physiological buffer zone.

4. Educate course participants about the definition of load, and its relationship to the general adaptation syndrome.

5. Discuss with course participants the difference between overreaching, overtraining, and overuse, and its relationship with an athletes functional threshold.

6. Educate course participants about the specifics of picking a training dose when choosing an exercise for the purpose of eliciting a training adaptation.

7. Discuss the difference between readiness and preparedness.

8. Educate course participants on how to manage load in athletic populations.

9. Discuss the specifics of the athletes monitoring algorithm.

10. Educate course participants on measurable acute, subacute, and chronic variables that relate to injury prevention and improving physical performance.

11. Discuss the importance of the training load filter in relation to managing load.

12. Discuss how to measure and interpret training load.

13. Discuss how to measure and interpret wellness score.

14. Discuss how to measure and interpret readiness quotient.

15. Discuss how to measure and interpret training monotony.

16. Discuss how to measure and interpret training strain.

17. Discuss how to measure and interpret changes in weekly training load

18. Discuss how to measure and interpret changes in acute to chronic workload ratios.

19. Discuss how to measure and interpret changes in force production.

20. Discuss how to measure and interpret changes in ranges of motion.

21. Educate course participants on how to apply load management strategies to individual sport athletes.

22. Educate course participants on how to apply load management strategies to team sport athletes.

Course Details

  • Load Management in Fitness and Sport - How to manage stress to prevent injury and improve performance
  • By:    American Chiropractic Association
  • Instructor:    Thomas L. Teter, Jr., DC
  • Total CE Hours:    2.00
  • Course Format:     Live In Person Seminar
  • Course Start:    10/13/2023   08:30am
  • Course End:    10/13/2023   10:30am
  • Time Zone:    Western
  • Location State:    California
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  • Course Categories:     DC Continuing Education
  • Course Subjects | CE HOURS:
    • Pain Management  -2.00 CE Hours
    • Sports Medicine  -2.00 CE Hours