This course with Lee Herrington will have a combination of Theory & Practical elements.


About Dr Lee Herrington PhD MCSP
Physiotherapist & Senior Lecturer in Sports Rehabilitation at the University of Salford; programme leader for the MSc Sports Injury Rehabilitation course.

Lee has a clinical role as technical lead physiotherapist with the English Institute of Sport, leading on issues related to lower limb injury rehabilitation across all the Olympic sports, and also acts a consultant physiotherapist to a number of premiership & championship football and rugby union clubs.

He has worked as part of the Team GB medical team at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games in addition to working with British Swimming, Great Britain Women’s Basketball team, Wigan Warriors and Great Britain Rugby League teams along with England Table Tennis and Netball.

His research interests are the treatment and rehabilitation of sports injuries, specifically: anterior knee pain; hamstring muscle injuries and rehabilitation following knee surgery (principally ACL reconstruction), with over 150 peer reviewed papers published, along with numerous book chapters. Lee is also the editor in chief of the Physical Therapy in Sport journal and on the editorial board of The Knee journal and Journal of Athletic Training.


Course Content 
This is a presentation which looks at the typical mechanisms of ACL injury and discusses the impact of this on rehabilitation. The talk then presents task orientated criterion based ACLR management strategy.

Main areas covered:

• Mechanism of ACL injury
• Monitoring of the performance of ACLR patients
• Criterion based ACLR rehabilitation

Session aims:
Participants will gain an understanding of:-

• The mechanisms behind ACL injury
• The key factors in the aetiology of ACL injury
• The outcome from ACL injury
• How to monitor patient performance and rehabilitation progression
• Criterion based ACLR rehabilitation
  
  7 CPD points will be awarded for this course