Foot Management Essentials-Level 1

Learn Pilates from the ground up! All our clients need help with their feet, especially post-partum, overuse from athleticism and with aging. Learn and practice not only foot and ankle exercises for the 5 arches of the feet but learn mobilizations critical to both your and your client’s longevity in foot health! Evolution is explained to better understand how man evolved into a bipedal human being. 

Detailed exploration brings anatomy and biomechanics into the fourth dimension with fascial connections and slings investigating the foot core system and tri-planar training. After learning the foot types and shapes and how they impact the foot’s functioning, explore Upper Core Pelvic Core, and Spinal Engine counter-rotational communications that will ensure walking, jumping and running for a lifetime. Learners experience mat –specific Pilates exercises appropriate for studio instruction as well as for a home exercise program. 

More practical sessions focus on Pilates Apparatus-Specific Applications to promote fascial connections as well as isolation of the 5 arches of the feet. Detailed osteo-kinematics of the foot and ankle complex as well as the use of traditional Pilates foot props are explored along with the wobble board, balls and rollers. Transformational gait training completes the training by organizing the fascial connections that make this training a full body experience, in the tradition of Joseph Pilates’ whole body commitment concept of exercise. 

Special bonuses include Janda short foot concepts, BareFoot Rehab training

****This workshop is appropriate for fitness instructors, movement educators and physical therapists and assistants

Objectives

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

1. Better understand the anatomy, biomechanics, osteo-kinematics of the foot core system and multi-directional training concepts
2. Identify, assess and recommend Pilates environment exercises for conditions associated with the ankle/foot complex
3. Identify and implement lower extremity biomechanical fascial core concepts that promote full dynamic foot use function utilizing the Pilates concepts and principles
   • Self-mobilizations: footsie roller, gizmo, gizmo-plus, tennis ball
   • Use of aids for exercise success
   • “Rump –lifting”: using the spine to unweight the legs
   • 1st position parallel: architecture of the standing pelvic arch connection to the lower extremities
   • Unlocking laterality
   • Connecting talo-crural (ankle) strength with sacro-iliac (pelvic) stability
   • Skilled intervention in specific cueing; pelvic floor force coupling
   • Short Foot Balance Training
4. Identify, demonstrate and recommend stretches for fascial tightness related to general lower extremity issues
5. Better understand specific mechanical correctives to aid clients in the Pilates environment:
   • Intrinsic training
   • Short Foot Apparatus Applications
   • Osteo-kinematic Mat and Reformer Training
   • Ankle stabilizers
   • Use of Pilates props: Foot Corrector/ Gizmo/ Wakers/ Sole mice/ Rollers/ Balls/Bands
6. Better understand how to integrate Standing Pilates into apparatus and prop use
   • Standing pelvic arch development
   • Block step-over exercises
   • Statue of Liberty
7. Better understand the fascial slings involved with the phases of gait and how to activate them in the Pilates environment

Lesson Plans

Module 1: Background Lecture and Lab

Module 2: Background Lecture

Module 2: Practical Lab

Module 3: Background Lecture

Module 3: Practical Lab

Module 4: Background Lecture

Module 4: Practical Lab

Complete Ethics agreement for Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Module 1: Background Lecture and Lab Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Module 2: Background Lecture Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Module 2: Practical Lab Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Module 3: Background Lecture Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Module 3: Practical Lab Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Module 4: Background Lecture Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Module 4: Practical Lab Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Assessment Foot Management Essentials-Level 1 Course Evaluation