Shoulder pain and tightness are common complaints with many of our clients, limiting both their ability to exercise and live the quality of life they desire. This session will describe common shoulder injuries including impingement syndromes, rotator cuff dysfunction, and scapular control issues that lead directly to many of our client's problems. While these problems seem varied in nature, they share one thing in common - poor scapular stability. During this video, the fitness professional will discover the primary cause of poor shoulder stability and the corrective strategies required to improve their client's scapular control. Additionally, the will discover how to teach proper shoulder exercises so that they can help their clients accomplish their health and fitness goals.
Instructor: Evan Osar
Dr. Evan Osar is an internationally recognized lecturer, author, and expert on assessment, corrective exercise, and movement. What makes Dr. Osar so unique in the fitness and rehabilitation industry is that he has dedicated his life to studying and synthesizing the very best information from the fields of rehabilitation, conditioning, and performance.
Early in his career, Dr. Osar recognized that the majority of the training approaches being taught to fitness professionals were focused on working with high functioning individuals like athletes and that there wasn't a system that adequately addressed the specific needs of the general population client with postural alterations, chronic muscle imbalances, and movement dysfunction. He developed the Integrative Movement System™, the industry's first assessment and corrective exercise strategy designed to specifically help the fitness professional work with the general population. The Integrative Movement System™ was designed so that it could be seamlessly incorporated into a Pilates, yoga, or functional training program.
Dr. Osar's mission is to help fitness professionals become recognized as 'the movement-based solution to the health care crisis'. To support fitness professionals in their goal of becoming that solution, Dr. Osar and his wife Jenice Mattek created Fitness Education Seminars™ which provides free newsletter, video and webinar resources on assessment, corrective exercise, and functional exercise.
