Online Course
An Individualised Approach to Overuse Injuries
Become more skilled at helping athletes back to their highest level of function

1-1.5 hours

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Merike Hopkins
Course instructor

Merike is a physiotherapist with an impressive background in the prevention and rehabilitation of sport-related overuse injuries.

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Introduction

Overuse injuries are a common phenomenon and can be challenging to assess and manage. Various factors contribute to the development of these injuries. The diagnosis, treatment and understanding why an injury occurred are distinct challenges for the clinician. This course discusses an individualised approach to the management of overuse injuries.

Aims

This course aims to introduce a systematic and individualised approach to the diagnosis and management of overuse injuries.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, discussions and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Video
  2. Reading activity
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1-1.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • describe the term “overuse injury” and why overuse may lead to injury
  • identify at least one structure affected by overuse injury
  • identify the risk factors of overuse injuries
  • discuss the role of physiotherapy in the management of overuse injuries
  • describe the assessment and management of overuse injuries

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews
The course is practical for me. I am a physiotherapist, and the information included in the course is excellent. In our country, most people do not know about physiotherapy, and they always get chronic inflammation, preventing them from returning to pre-injury status. It is because they lack the treatment and proper rehabilitation. The course will help me explain the problem of overuse injuries and help them return to everyday life post-injury. Thank you.
Aye Nyein Thu Maung
Physiotherapist
Myanmar
Excellent course. Very well structured and well done, this course gives us the desire to learn more and put into practice the notions of optimal loading to gain experience on the subject. As a result, I now have more confidence in my ability to mediate loading to an optimal load to stimulate regeneration and functional strengthening of affected structures vs the need for rest/recovery of those same structures, which is a lot! (original text)Très bien structuré et bien fait, ce cours nous donne le goût d'en savoir plus et de mettre en pratique les notions de mise en charge optimale, de gagner de l'expérience sur le sujet. J'ai maintenant plus confiance en mon habilté à médier la mise en charge vers une charge optimale pour stimuler la regénération et le renforcement fonctionnel des structures atteintes vs le besoin de repos/récupération, et juste ça, c'est déjè beaucoup!
Brigitte Barrette
Physiotherapist
Canada
A course that teaches you the fundamentals of rehabilitation of overuse injuries!
Ahmed Osama
Physiotherapist
Egypt
Excellent course that you can do in your lunch break or between patients.
Ryno Erasmus
Physiotherapist
Singapore
This is a very important course for physios. To take a professional approach to overuse injuries as more patients take part in active, high-level sports.
Bernice Saban
Physiotherapist
Israel
This course is very relevant not only to the high functioning athlete patient but also to the regular everyday man that may be suffering from an overuse injury. The course provides an introduction to Overuse Injury and gives advice on how we as Physiotherapists can intervene and manage these patients.
Oriana Blackwood
Physiotherapist
Jamaica
You can tell that Ms Hopkins is passionate about this subject. Excellent presentation!
Claudia Dixon
Physical Therapist
United States