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Exploring the Essential Features of “Jennifer Dieter – Shoulder Pain in the Overhead Athlete – PESI”
Shoulder Pain in the Overhead Athlete
Speaker: Jennifer Dieter, MPT
Format: Audio and Video
Description
Having a hard time with that stubborn or chronic shoulder pain, especially in the overhead athlete population? You’ll uncover specific stabilization and mobilization exercises and techniques that lead to significant improvements in overall outcomes: less time in rehab, quicker return to sport, solid program for the athlete to take ownership of injury prevention. This session is jam-packed with evidence-based treatment recommendations and techniques that you can implement in your practice or on yourself immediately! Restore overhead movement and skill without pain & more quickly than ever before to get your athletes back to the game!
Speaker
Jennifer Dieter, MPT
Jennifer Dieter, MPT, is a physical therapist with 24 years of experience in outpatient physical therapy and sports medicine. She has achieved success in the treatment of cervical and lumbar spine, surgical and non-surgical orthopedic injuries, sports medicine, back pain during pregnancy, and women’s health patients with her manual therapy skills and functional treatment philosophies. She has experience working with high-level professional athletes, CrossFit athletes, “weekend warriors”, and implemented a strength and conditioning program for adolescents. She is an eight-time CrossFit Games masters athlete, finishing between 9th and 5th overall from 2015-2022, and has won several recent CrossFit Masters events. She also set a National record for the USA Weightlifting in 2016 for the snatch, clean and jerk and total, in 2018 set the World Record in Weightlifting for the same events. She also won the National Championship in 2020 and won the World Championship for Weightlifting in 2022.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Dieter has an employment relationship with Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute and receives an honorarium from RockTape. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Jennifer Dieter has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
Objectives
- Determine contributing factors for shoulder pain in the overhead athlete in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Define the overhead athlete.
- Utilize clinical strategies in manual therapy and mobility tools for shoulder issues to improve client level of functioning.
- Develop a plan of care to improve shoulder health in overhead athletes.
Outline
- Observing Movement Dysfunction
- Common patterns that are contributors to pain
- Literature review
- Strategies to refine movement analysis
- Perform special shoulder tests as it relates to the overhead athlete.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the anatomy and biomechanics of the shoulder complex.
- Evaluate the pathomechanics of various shoulder injuries in the overhead athletes.
- Precision and Quality of Movement
- Tips for proper cuing
- Exercises to Improve BOTH Mobility AND Stability
- Best practiced exercises Taping
- Mobility tools
- Manual therapy
Target Audience
- Athletic Trainers
- Chiropractors
- Massage Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
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