Sports Injury Prophylaxis, Rehabilitation & Performance Enhancement
1-day Online Seminar (7.5 hours of CPD – EAC accreditation applied for)
Optimal movement necessitates optimal motor control. Optimal motor control is dependent upon motor automaticity, which is the ability to perform movements without directing attention toward the details of the movement. Compromised motor automaticity predisposes to injury, impaired athletic performance, and must be effectively restored during injury rehabilitation in order to reduce re-injury risk.
This seminar will discuss and demonstrate practical treatment, training and rehabilitation strategies for building motor automaticity. Specific topics will include enhancing sensorimotor processing, improving dynamic movement stabilisation and how to optimise motor learning. We will also explore the different facets of successful proprioceptive rehabilitation after sports injury, including the importance of restoring efficient central nervous system processing of proprioceptive information.
Furthermore, we will modify the strategies used to enhance sensorimotor processing and motor control in athletes and apply them to geriatric fall prevention.
This module is very practical-based and will give you additional clinical applications derived from the material presented in previous modules. That said, it is no problem to take this module if you haven’t attended previous seminars with us.
The seminar will be interactive, and participants will be able to and encouraged to ask questions throughout.
A comprehensive set of course notes will be emailed to you in advance of the seminar.
Video demonstrations of examination techniques and rehabilitation exercises will help you to learn the practical skills.
These videos will demonstrate normal and abnormal findings, and will be made available to you after the seminar.
Course Content:
- Dynamic postural stabilisation: assessment of the systems involved & how to train them to function better
- Neurological principles of motor control and motor learning
- Cerebellar vs. cortical control of movement
- The cerebellum in:
- Predictive control of movement
- Rapid motor adaptations
- Motor timing & surround inhibition
- The importance of proximal stabilisation and eccentric control
- Implicit vs. explicit motor learning
- Proprioceptive vs. visual sensory reliance
- How to promote cerebellar control of movement for athletic performance, injury prevention and injury rehabilitation
- Falls in the elderly: causes, prevention, and rehabilitation strategies
- Components of proprioceptive rehabilitation
- Restoring efficient central nervous system processing of proprioceptive information
- Post-injury gamma gain deficits and strategies for their rehabilitation
Date: Sunday 10th May 2026
Time: 9:00am – 5:30pm (BST) / 10:00am – 6:30pm (CEST)
Online platform: Zoom
Registration fee: £180 (GBP) / €218 (EUR)
Please contact nicole@neuroseminars.co.uk if you require any further information.
Seminar Instructor:
Nicole Oliver, DC, MChiro, BSc(Hons), PgDip(MSK Neuroscience)
Nicole graduated from the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC) in 2005 and began studying functional neurology in 2006. She gained the Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Neurology Board (DACNB) qualification four years later. Alongside clinical practice she lectures for Neuroseminars, teaching functional neurology to chiropractors, osteopaths, physiotherapists and other health care professionals in the UK and Europe. Nicole has presented at several conferences and conventions, including the 2014 & 2016 European Chiropractors Union (ECU) Conventions, the 2019 World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) Congress, and at the annual or biannual conferences/ meetings of the Swiss, German, Norwegian, Belgian, Finnish, Swedish, Irish and Scottish national associations.