Healthy Running covers advanced running form, strength training, range of motion, aerobic development, motor skill development, injury assessment and treatment, and running shoe prescription. Content is evidence based with numerous case scenarios and hands-on analysis to apply concepts learned.
Registration fees
MEDICAL Closed
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Physicians (AMA CME included)
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$445.00Feb 5 – May 9
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$495.00May 10 – Jun 9
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PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND OTHER MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS Closed
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AMA CME included
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$395.00Feb 5 – May 9
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$445.00May 10 – Jun 9
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COACHES AND TRAINERS Closed
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Continuing Education Credit/Coach Certification included
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$345.00Feb 5 – May 9
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$395.00May 10 – Jun 9
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RUNNERS Closed
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Certificate of Participation available upon request
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$245.00Feb 5 – May 9
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$295.00May 10 – Jun 9
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ONE DAY Closed
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Thursday Only
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$225.00Feb 5 – May 9
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$250.00May 10 – Jun 9
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DISCOUNT Closed
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Students, DoD (Physicians and PTs only)
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$175.00Feb 5 – May 9
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$195.00May 10 – Jun 9
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Course Information
COURSE TIMES: Check in Thursday 7:30 am. Course runs 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Thursday and Friday.
CHAIRMAN: Dr. Mark Cucuzzella
DIRECTOR: TBA
TEXTBOOK & PRE-READING: Anatomy for Runners by Jay Dicharry - purchase on Amazon or iTunes
ATTIRE: Running apparel and shoes.
COURSE SCHEDULE:
DAY 1
7:30 am Registration
8:00 am Course Overview
Training Principles (Three 5 min breaks)
8:30 am Why We Run: psychology and anthropology of running
9:00 am Aerobic Development
10:00 am The role of intensity, coordination, and peaking
11:00 am Aging, recovery, overtraining syndrome
11:30 am Medical issues-cardiac, heat, hydration
12:00 noon Footwear discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
Efficient Running Workshop (Three 5 min breaks)
1:00 pm Posture, stability and mobility
2:00 pm Movement patterns for efficiency and injury reduction
3:00 pm Form drills to re-enforce motor skills: warm up and cool down
4:00 pm Nutrition for health and performance
4:30 pm END DAY ONE
5:00 pm Optional easy group run
DAY 2
Assessing the Injured Runner (Three 5 minute breaks)
8:00 am Biomechanics
9:45 am Clinical measures and gait
10:45 am Clinical mobility and stability assessment lab
12:00 noon Lunch
12:45 pm Strength and power from distance to sprinting
1:45 pm Clinical gait assessment
2:30 pm Clinical running analysis lab
3:15 pm Exercise prescription lab
4:00 pm Q & A
4:30 pm END PROGRAM: Evaluations
Target Audience
Primary care physicians, physical therapists, sports medicine and rehabilitation physicians, nurse practitioners, physician asssistants, athletic trainers, coaches, and other professionals interested in maintaining the health of runners.
Program Details
Healthy Running for medical and fitness professionals focuses on the energetics of running, running skill, injury evaluation and treatment. Content is evidence-based with numerous case scenarios, active drills and exercise, and practical workshops to apply concepts.
Day one addresses the anthropologic basis of running, aerobic development, recovery principles and practice, overtraining syndrome, coordination and peaking, nutrition for health and performance, warm up and cool down. The role of footwear on runners is examined, including the evolution of running shoes, design, technology and the relationship to injury. The afternoon workshop addresses strength training, range of motion/mobility and motor function.
Day two examines the injured runner, tissue specificity, anatomy, biomechanics and clinical evaluation of mobility and strength. The afternoon workshop assesses running from a clinical perspective, prescription of strength, mobility, and gait cues based on specific findings. Stability, core work, mobility and stretching principles are addressed.
The course also includes medical issues for runners, including heat illness, cardiac, physiology, and emerging concepts in nutrition for health and performance. People who register at the Medical or Coaches and Trainers level and complete a course are eligible to receive the Healthy Running coach certification at no additional cost.
Variations of this course have been presented for Continuing Medical Education at West Virginia University, the Pentagon, the Andrews Institute in Florida, and at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Staff have presented selected course content at over 50 military bases and numerous medical conferences including for AMAA, ACMS, IMSMC and teaching universities internationally.
Goals and Objectives
After this course, the participant should be able to:
- Discuss the pathophysiological process behind running injuries and the new treatment concepts relating to these pathologies.
- Improve clinical efficiency through a better knowledge of objective diagnostic assessments and their place in the clinical exam of an injured runner.
- Discuss the new theories behind tissue stress, adaptation and preventive stress.
- Recognize the relationship between running biomechanics and the risk of injuries.
- Build a program to help an injured runner return to running using the theoretical principles relating to different energy systems, cross-training and warm-up.
- Discuss the science behind running shoe technology, plantar orthoses, flexibility and strengthening in the prevention and treatment of running injuries.
- Discuss the science and practical application of aerobic development, speed training, and periodization.
- Describe the principles and be able to teach efficient running form including supplemental drills.
- Evaluate a patient for movement dysfunction during a clinical visit and provide simple corrective measures.
- Discuss Clinical Injury assessment and exam and specific corrective exercises.
- Describe practical gait analysis, cues, and corrections.
- Discuss Nutrition for health and performance.
- Prescribe footwear to complement the patient’s current movement pattern and how to safely transition them to more functional footwear.
Continuing Education Credit
The WVU School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The two day Healthy Running course provides up to 15 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 credits.
This course is also approved to provide:
- 1.5 NSCA CEUs (CSCS and CPT)
- 1.5 ACE CECs
- 15 NATA (BOC) Category A CEUs
- 15 ACSM CECs
- 6 USAT CEUs (Participant must attend the full 2 days to qualify for USAT CEUS - no partial credit will be given)
- 1.5 NASM CEUs
- AAFP 14.75 CECs
Attendees will be provided a certificate of completion listing credit hours on request.
Confirmation and Cancelation
Upon receipt of registration and payment, you will receive an email confirmation.
Registration fees will be refunded (less a $50 administrative fee) for cancellations received a minimum of 14 days prior to the activity date. No refunds will be granted for registration fees of less than $50 or for cancellations made within 13 days of the activity.
Healthy Running reserves the right to cancel courses if necessary. In this case, Healthy Running will not assess the $50 administrative fee. All other expenses incurred associated with this course activity are the sole responsibility of the participant. We suggest you consider purchasing travel insurance.
Host and Venue
Host: West Virginia University
Venue:
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center - Eastern Division
2500 Foundation Way, Martinsburg, WV 25401
2nd Floor Classroom
Supported By:
Event schedule
- Thu, June 9, 2016 7:30 AM - Registration
- Thu, June 9, 2016 8:00 AM - Course Begins
- Thu, June 9, 2016 11:30 AM - Lunch Break
- Thu, June 9, 2016 12:10 PM - Afternoon Session Begins
- Thu, June 9, 2016 4:30 PM - End Day One
- Fri, June 10, 2016 8:00 AM - Day Two Begins
- Fri, June 10, 2016 12:00 PM - Lunch Break
- Fri, June 10, 2016 12:30 PM - Afternoon Session Begins
- Fri, June 10, 2016 4:30 PM - End Day Two
Contact information
- Event contact
- Susie Youn
- info@healthyrunning.org
- Phone
- +1 303-641-9035
- Website
- Visit website
