Automatic Core Stabilisation: Facilitating a Functional Core Response through Dynamic Postures and Motor Control

Brief outline (Detailed outline)

This presentation will take the concept of core activation beyond ultrasound and the drawing in manoeuvre to the inherent neuro-reflexive system which facilitated our normal growth and development. Vicky Saliba Johnson's approach to Back Education and Training emphasizes the automatic activation of the core through dynamic postures and movement and utilization of alignment and weight acceptance to facilitate appropriate core strength and endurance in response to the demands of gravity and movement.

Objectives

• The participant will learn two functional tests for the evaluation of a patient's automatic core function and correlate these findings to current research.
• The participant will learn to predict a patient's core response through the assessment of posture and functional movement patterns.
• The participant will learn techniques of training to facilitate appropriate posture and motor control which promote the automatic activation of the patient's core during functional activities of daily living (ADL).

Organiser

Vicky Johnson (United States of America) 

Vicky Saliba Johnson, PT has 33 years experience as an educator and clinician in the area of neuromuscular facilitation and motor control training. Her post professional training includes studies with Paris, Grimsby, Maitland, McKenzie, Johnson, Rocobado,  Wetzler, Hodges, and the six month intensive in PNF at Kaiser, Vallejo under Maggie Knott.  She has personally trained over 10,000 physical therapists nation wide in the area motor control and neuromuscular facilitation for both orthopedic and neurologic patient care, as well as corporate training for preventative care at large companies such as PG&E and 20 Mile Coal Mine (at the time the largest underground mine in the world).  Ms. Saliba Johnson is the co-founder and President of the Institute of Physical Art, the co-developer of the Functional Manual Therapy approach to patient care, the President of the Functional Manual Therapy Foundation (a non-profit 501 (c) 3 foundation whose mission is to promote research in manual therapy), the Director of the APTA credentialed FMT Foundation Orthopedic Residency, senior faculty for the AAOMPT credentialed FMT Fellowship program, adjunct faculty at Touro College of Physical Therapy, author of several chapters on manual therapy, and developer of the Back Education and Training Course which has taught functional active posture and movement training for optimal core facilitation since 1985.  She has co-authored several chapters in various Physical Therapy textbooks and has presented at multiple state and national conferences, including IFOMPT in 1994 on neuromuscular training for the orthopedic patient.

Speaker

Gregory Johnson (United States of America)

Gregory S. Johnson graduated from the University of Southern California in 1971 and completed a one year residency program at Kaiser Vallejo under Maggie Knott.  He remained as senior faculty for six years.  Gregory S. Johnson is best known for his identification of the need for Physical Therapists to integrate treatment of the facial system into manual therapy and the development of the first Soft Tissue Mobilization course for Physical Therapists in 1980.  In addition, Mr. Johnson utilized his extensive background in PNF to adapt standard manual therapy techniques of Joint Mobilization and develop the dynamic techniques of Functional Mobilization and Functional High Velocity Release (Functional HVR) techniques for joints, soft tissues, and neurovascular restrictions.  Mr. Johnson has trainied over 20,000 therapist in the USA and internationally.  He is the Director of an AAOMPT credentialed Fellowship program in Functional Manual Therapy and has published multiple chapters and articles on Soft Tissue Mobilization, PNF and the Orthopedic Patient, Functional Mobilization, and Functional Test for the Lumbar Patient.

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