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Overhead Athlete Courses

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Advanced Concepts for Overhead Athletes

Online Course

ACOHA is an online course designed to advance your clinical knowledge and skills in treating a unique patient population.  This course will cover advanced concepts of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, lower extremity, and the kinetic chain necessary for overhead athletes to be successful and injury-free.

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Biomechanics of Throwing

Online Course

Biomechanics of Throwing course will go in details to teach the physical therapist and health care provider how to break down the throwing motion, recognize errors in mechanics from a physics and injury prevention viewpoint, then teach the provider correctives for each phase of throwing.  This course will also cover proper return to throwing programs, exercises and plyometrics that are necessary to prep the thrower to adjust back to the unnatural act of throwing.

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Advanced Concepts for Overhead Athletes

2-Day In-Person Course

In this course, you will learn anatomical and biomechanical considerations of the entire kinetic chain in detail, along with extensive lab time for mastering evaluation and treatment skills. All overhead sports will be touched on and subtle difference reviewed. Video analysis, breakdown of the pitcher’s mechanics, and live demonstration of an overhead athlete evaluation.