Course description
Our flagship Course 1.0 is an essential for any health and fitness professional that works with runners. As a Certified Professional by The Running Clinic, you will be able to:
✓ Understand and apply the latest running science
✓ Select the best treatment approach for your clients
✓ Apply concepts and tools tested with thousands of runners by our expert clinicians
✓ Position yourself as a reference in your local community
OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this course, based on the most recent scientific evidence, participants will be able to:
• Independently list 3 of the most important aspects of an injured runner’s assessment
• Identify 3 interventions that can potentially reduce injury risk and increase performance in a runner
• Correctly list 3 links between anatomy, biomechanics, strength and injuries
• Describe 3 different categories of running footwear that are available on the market today
• Efficiently assess 4 main aspects of running biomechanics of a runner in a clinical setting
• Implement 3 different running gait retraining interventions to reduce lower limb loading
• Correctly select the 1 most appropriate treatment approach based on the stage of injury (protection vs. adaptation)
• Explain the concept of proper mechanical stress quantification to an injured runner
• Defend 2 pros and 2 cons and list 3 clinical applications of plantar orthoses in runners
• Correctly prescribe running drills to a runner
• Efficiently prescribe cross-training and appropriate training modulation based on the 3 specific running injury types (load, repetition, range of motion)
• Independently prescribe new exercises / interventions for the most common running injuries for an injured runner
SCHEDULE
DAY 1
8:00am – 8:30am Introduction
8:30am – 9:45am Clinical assessment of the injured runner
9:45am – 10:00am Break
10:00am – 11:00am Risk factors for running injuries: anatomy, biomechanics & strength
11:00am – 11:30am Running biomechanics (practical session)
11:30am – 12:00pm Running biomechanics (theory)
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00pm – 2:00pm Running biomechanics (theory)
2:00pm – 4:00pm Running footwear
4:00pm – 4:15pm Break
4:15pm – 6:00pm Running gait: assessment & retraining (theory and practice)
DAY 2
8:00am – 8:30am Questions and review of Day 1
8:30am – 10:00am Mechanical stress quantification / Load management principle
10:00am – 11:30pm Managing training loads: cross-training and training modulation
11:30am – 12:00pm Running drills
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00pm – 2:30pm Stretching, plantar orthoses, running surfaces
2:45pm – 3:00pm Break
3:00pm – 4:30pm Evidence-based treatment for the most common running injuries
4:30pm – 5:00pm Return to running programs, hydration and conclusion
Details
March 8-9, 2025
Saturday: 8 AM to 6 PM
Sunday: 8 AM to 5 PM
Lunch breaks from 12 to 1 PM
Advantage Sports Medicine (South Edmonton)
575 100 St SW #302
Edmonton, AB T6X 0S8
The Running Clinic is a proud educational partner of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. CPA members get a 15% discount by entering the code found in the Members Benefits page. Students get 50% off.
This course has received the stamp of approval for high-quality evidence-based education from the prestigious British Journal of Sports Medicine.
This course represents 22 hours of continuing education, i.e. 5 hours of preliminary reading and 17 hours of in-person learning with our expert clinicians. This course could be admissible for the Canada-Alberta Job Grant.
