Treatment Regimes in Gait Faults to Enhance Performance

Recorded On: 01/12/2021

This course by Dr. Christine Foss, DC, will dive into human movement and the EBP analysis of facilitated patterns of movement. The lecture will then walk through the biomechanics that predispose the athlete to injury and patterns that drive optimal performance. Lastly, as the seminar continues, it will then progress to demonstrate treatment regimes that unwind faulty movement patterns in the corrective phase of care. The lectures overarching goals is to walk through the process of evaluation and then safely returning the athlete to play with improved biomechanics and enhanced performance.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify normal movement patterns
2. Assess perspective on movement patterns that drive injury
3. Describe factors that drive faulty movement in the process of correction and return to sport.

PACE ID: 9443

Christine Foss

DC

Owner- Advance Sports Medical and PT Center

Dr. Christine A. Foss has a master’s degree in Sports Medicine from Old Dominion University, a Doctorate in Chiropractic from New York Chiropractic College, and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Health Sciences. She is a Certified Athletic Trainer, Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, Diplomate American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board, and an Internationally Certified Sports Chiropractor.

She was named the 2020 American Chiropractic Association Sports Council Chiropractor of the Year. Dr. Foss is passionate about her work at Advanced Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy Center and Kid’s Therapy Center, both of which she established and co-owns. She has worked the World Games in Poland and the bobsleigh World Championships, both for FICS. She traveled with TEAMUSATF as medical staff and has also worked alongside prominent surgeons in the care and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. Dr. Foss finds special interest in difficult cases and those patients that have had little success with conventional care, as well as lecturing on a variety of aspects of sports injuries.

Dr. Foss is director and lead instructor for the Northeast College of Health Sciences Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP) continuing education program.