MEDICAL THERAPEUTIC YOGA FOR THE UPPER EXTREMITIES - SOD AT

Course overview

More Americans are seeking out Complementary and Alternative Medicine than ever, and a large part of that is yoga. The incredible use of yoga, and the science that supports it, is prime for mainstream health care professionals to embrace a powerful tool they have at their fingertips: yoga as medicine. Yoga¿s ¿medical model¿ looks much different from the current medical model in the United States. Driven by compassion and patient-centered care, yoga in medicine, uses an integrative, holistic, eivdence-based biopsychosocial model. This course reviews the latest evidence in injury prevalence in sport, injury prevention, and management of the shoulder complex and gives the clinician the tools necessary for immediate intervention. Clinicians learn to critically analyze the evaluative paradigm necessary to use yoga for achieving safer physiological spinal motion, improved GI function, and overall health in both medical and wellness based settings. The course discusses spinal kinematic theory and how it changes the traditional approach to, and increases safety in, teaching yoga for spinal mobility. The clinician will learn to critically analyze the evaluative paradigm necessary to use yoga for achieving safer physiological spinal motion, improved GI function, and overall health in both medical and wellness based settings.