Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization: Exercise Course for Health Care & Exercise Professionals Part 1

Exercise Professionals:

This course is designed to introduce DNS principles as it relates to exercise and fitness training. Target audience: Clinicians, trainers, coaches, body work therapists, exercise physiologists & kinesiologists.

Goals

• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of developmental kinesiology.
• Describe the relationship between development during the first year of life and dysfunction of the locomotor system in adulthood.
• Discuss and demonstrate the basis of human movement: support, stepping forward, the biomechanics of motor function, the verticalization process & functional joint centration in postural development.
• Evaluate and correct poor respiratory patterns.
• Assess the integrated stabilizing system of the spine both visually and utilizing dynamic functional tests.
• Integrate corrective exercises based on the DNS functional tests and developmental positions in supine, prone, low kneeling, oblique sit, and quadruped global movements.
• Demonstrate how DNS corrective exercises can be integrated with other exercise strategies.