Description

The evaluation and the development of muscle strength are competences required in various areas such as the optimization of performance, rehabilitation, and more generally, in the health area. These competences can be used in sports, but also in leisure and competition, for therapies, in a the preventive field, and more specifically for the maintenance of the quality of life of elderly persons.

The knowledge of biomechanics, metabolism, and of the control of muscle strength has considerably evolved during the last decade. The methods and tools of evaluation have also benefited from technological developments making available for field actors an array of efficient technologies which allow at the same time precise functional evaluations and a regular measure of acquired performances.

A regular update on latest developments is advised for physiotherapists, actors in the field of sports, and more generally, for professionals in the field of health and preventive health.

The training reframes the basic notions of histology, neurophysiology, biomechanics, metabolic physiology, as well as of the central and peripheral control of the muscle strength. Latest knowledge in these fields is added to the basic notions, accompanied systematically by immediate applications in the professional practice.

The evaluation methods, from the simplest to the most complex ones, are described from their elementary principles on to their application from both a theoretical and practical point of view. The concepts developed during the training are systematically applied in practice by the participants themselves during workshops which are integrated in the training sessions.

The content of the training is based on the latest international publications and is communicated with a critical and pragmatic mind by professionals who have an excellent knowledge in the matter.

The trainers are researchers, teachers and field workers, all specialised in the area taught. The accent is set on the transfer of knowledge from the laboratory or scientific literature to the field.

The training sessions take places at the end of the week in order to facilitate the attendance of active professionals. The training comprises a total of 80 hours spread over 4 seminars of 20 hours each. Participants will use during practical workshops the latest muscle evaluation and reinforcement tools.

The training will be of specific interest for physiotherapists but also for students and former students of UFR STAPS, since it completes the basic competences acquired during the course of UFR STAPS of Perpignan.

Objectives of the training

The training aims to complete and update the knowledge and the practical competences in the fields of development and evaluation of muscle strength for all categories of individuals; children, adolescents, athletes (leisure or competition), orthopedic, neurological and cardio-vascular patients, elderly people…..

Starting with the healthy human being, the theory illustrated by field examples, demonstrates the possible variations of muscle strength during the cycle of life. Specific situations related to clinics, aging, or performance, are studied in order to give participants the capacities to best exploit the evaluation tools and to set up autonomously muscle reinforcement programmes, taking into account latest developments and respecting the ethics and security of the persons treated.

This continued training is dedicated to medical doctors, physiotherapists, osteopaths, and graduates in Sports Sciences and Techniques with the objective to complete their basic curriculum with a theoretical and practical approach of neurophysiology, biomechanics of the muscle, as well as with various methods of quantification, of evaluation, of reinforcement of the rehabilitation of the muscle strength.

Competences aqcuired

The participants will acquire the following competences :

Ability to formulate a functional assessment of the muscle strength of persons in various health areas or in the field of health prevention, as well as in sports.

Use the tests, updated evaluation tools and the adequate equipments to measure the parameters of the muscle strength (isokinetic dynamometry, emg…..)

Restore, maintain or optimise muscle strength.

Apply with efficiency the techniques and specific procedures of the muscle reinforcement.

Detect and prevent problems linked to the loss of muscle strength.

Elaborate diversified plans for muscle reinforcement responding to various clinical situations, to the specific life cycle situation of the person, or to the specific needs of an athlete - be it at professional or amateur level.

Integrate the scientific procedure in compliance with ethics and professional responsibility into the optimization practices of the muscle strength.

Integrate sensorimotor functions in the development of the muscle strength. 

Practical Information

The training consists of four seminars.

Seminar 1: The muscle: micro and macroscopic composition, its neurological control, its mechanical rules.

Trainers: Guy Cheron, Paul Klein, Gregory Doucende.
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Seminar 2: The muscle: its mechanical rules and biochemical modulations.

Trainers: Dietmar Schmidtbleicher, Jacques Remi Poortmans, Gregory Doucende.
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Seminar 3: The muscle: its strengths and weaknesses, its adaptation properties, its currents.
Trainers: Alain Belli, Doucende Gregory, Benjamin Pasquet.
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Seminar 4: The isokinetic muscle strengthening of choice.
Trainers: Eric Brassinne, Dominique Mouraux.
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