This chiefly hands-on course is designed as a clinical practical continuation and expansion of the registrant’s skillset following the completion of the DNS A and B courses after DNS students have had the opportunity to practically apply DNS methods with their own cases. This can be a critical period to gain greater understanding and skills with utilizing work-shopping and case examples.
The A course provides introductory instruction in the foundational DNS principles and skills utilizing non-differentiated motor patterns. The B course provides introductory instruction in the foundational DNS principles and skills utilizing differentiated motor patterns. This course provides a bridge between the A/B courses and the DNS C course and also assists with a better understanding and practical skillset for DNS specialty courses.
Course objectives:
- Briefly basic principles of developmental kinesiology, emphasizing development during the first year of life.
- Demonstrate the relationship between development during the first year of life and pathology of the locomotor system in adulthood.
- Define ideal postural stabilization from a developmental perspective: intra-abdominal pressure regulation, the dual role of the diaphragm in stabilization and respiration, and stabilization via co-contraction.
- Correction strategies for common stereotypes of faulty postural stabilization (“open scissors syndrome,” forward drawn posture, backward drawn posture, “hourglass syndrome”).
- Practically integrate the biomechanics of undifferentiated, ipsilateral and contralateral postural-locomotion patterns; closed and opened kinematic chains, stepping forward and supporting function in clinical practice.
- Evaluate and correct poor respiratory patterns and integrate the corrected patterns in a broader therapeutic model.
- Assess the integrated stabilizing system of the spine visually and by utilizing dynamic functional tests.
- Integrate corrective more advanced exercises based on the DNS functional tests and developmental positions: exercise in developmental-kinesiologically integrated static positions; position transfer during locomotor function; exercise progression using unstable surfaces; increased difficulty of the exercises utilizing resistance, dual tasking and other challenges.
- Demonstrate how DNS corrective exercises can integrate with other exercise strategies and progression.
- Cover the intermediate application of the DNS concept in sports training.
- Provide intermediate clinical management explanations for clinicians to better integrate the DNS approach in their regular practice, including patient education.
- Provide more complex clinical management reasoning for clinicians to better integrate more advanced DNS protocols into clinical practice beyond those taught in the B Course.
- Optimally prepare students for the next level of training (Course “C)
- Utilize case examples, including diagnoses for clarification, for more practical complex DNS application.
- Further prepare the student for all Specialized DNS courses.
Registration:
NOTE: Registration must be completed in two (2) parts.
- Submit the form and payment below as part one and
- Then move on to the second part with the link below for the Prague School Certification payment.
Part 1: Payment Form
Part 2: Prague School Payment Form
Click here to submit the Prague School Payment registration. (Required for Course Attendance, Notes & Certification)
