Two-Day Course, 16 Contact Hours

GRAVITYPost-rehab®::Major Joint Series® is a comprehensive program designed to teach physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistants, athletic trainers and personal trainers to utilize specific exercises and progression techniques to work successfully to meet the client's fitness objectives without aggravating underlying problems. It provides specific examples of conditioning options for the shoulder, knee and spine, utilizing the  most versatile fitness modality in the industry, the GTS®. The program is ideal for those who wish to provide cash based services offering continued support to patients and clients after physiotherapy.

This two-day course (8 hours per day) offers the attendee tools for determining when to refer a client to a rehab or medical specialist, and how to interface with the treating medical professional. Learn to recognize when a client needs special attention that may alter the method and progression of their conditioning program due to previous treatment, unresolved pain or functional limitations. Specific pathologies are not addressed nor does the attendee learn to diagnose or evaluate pathology as this is the domain of the doctor, physiotherapist or athletic trainer. GRAVITYPost-rehab programming was developed in liaison with physical therapists and does not teach the attendee how to treat injury or dysfunction, but rather how to train the client to reach fitness goals without re-injury.

GRAVITYPost-rehab is an opportunity for attendees to:

    Market yourself to clients who are experiencing a movement dysfunction.
    Market yourself to community physiotherapists, chiropractors, orthopedic surgeons and other health care specialists to let them know that they have the ability to help them with their post-rehabilitative needs.
    Add post-rehab principles to current clients extending program & provide better results.

GRAVITYPost-rehab is designed by physical therapists and exercise physiologists to provide:

    Safe and effective programming, focusing on a movement dysfunction of a joint complex – lumbar spine, shoulder & knee.
    Set exercise sequence (stages)
    Training NOT treatment
    Total body conditioning

Course resources supplied include:

    GRAVITYBasics™ Manual
    GRAVITYPost-Rehab Manual
    GRAVITYInstructor™ Certificate (required for in-club training)