Endurance Athlete

About this Certificate Program

Working with endurance athletes brings about a different set of challenges to physical therapy practice. This series led by Jay Dicharry, provides the tools needed to successfully rehabilitate patients following injury, prevent future injuries, and optimize performance. Swimming, biking, and running are the focus of this series with an emphasis on the different biomechanics each sport requires of its athletes. Become the expert on swim strokes, bike fit, and footwear and help your endurance athletes perform their best.

Target audience

Rehabilitation clinicians (PT, PTA, ATC) who have a passion and interest in working with endurance athletes. All content is taught in a progressive manner to help both novice and experienced clinicians improve apply their own knowledge framework to assess, treat, and optimize this challenging patient population.

Goals & objectives

• Understand the need to look past kinematics, and develop a link between the abilities of the athlete, and its impact on running gait.

• Discover how athlete’s symptoms, performance, and objective gait and body metrics change following specific interventions to improve athletic capacity.

• Build a rehab model to that ensures your clinical goals transfer to actionable fit considerations, cues and pedaling drills that your patient can utilize while riding.

• Identify the contact points on the bike, and the impact they produce within the cyclist.

• Be able to have an informed discussion with the cyclist in real time to identify and explain the acute effects of each change, and cue postural, mobility, and stability cues into pedaling drills that may be required for each patient to fix underlying issues that overload tissue stress or block performance.

• Coach to ensure long term success in unloading over-stressed tissue and optimizing body position and performance in the water.

• Describe the phases of the swim stroke cycle and the corresponding tissue stress that occurs at each phase.

• Build a rehab model to that ensures your clinical goals transfer to actionable fit considerations, cues and pedaling drills that your patient can utilize while riding.