Corrective Exercise Strategies for Basketball is designed for licensed professionals who work with basketball athletes and want to better understand movement dysfunction, assessment techniques, and corrective exercise strategies.

Through this course, participants will explore human movement science, common lower extremity and torso movement compensations, and the assessment methods used to identify movement limitations. These may include compensations such as feet turning out or flattening, knees moving inward, and excessive forward lean.

The course also covers corrective strategies using the traditional corrective exercise continuum model, including inhibit, lengthen, activate, and integrate. Participants will also learn about advanced techniques such as soft tissue release, myopractic techniques, neuromuscular stretching, and positional isometrics. 

This course equips participants with a clearer understanding of corrective exercise strategies for basketball athletes. Key outcomes include identifying movement dysfunctions, understanding common basketball-related compensations, applying assessment techniques, and using corrective strategies to support movement quality and reduce injury risk.

Key Knowledge & Skills Gained

• Human Movement Science: Understand the movement principles that support corrective exercise for basketball athletes.
• Movement Dysfunction: Learn how to identify common movement dysfunctions affecting performance and movement quality.
• Basketball-Specific Compensations: Recognize lower extremity and torso compensations such as feet turning out, knees moving inward, and excessive forward lean.
• Assessment Techniques: Explore assessments such as the Overhead Squat, Single-leg Squat, Goniometric Measurement, and Manual Muscle Testing.
• Corrective Exercise Continuum: Apply the inhibit, lengthen, activate, and integrate model within basketball-focused corrective exercise.
• Advanced Corrective Techniques: Learn about soft tissue release, myopractic techniques, neuromuscular stretching, and positional isometrics.
• Athlete Movement Support: Build knowledge that helps support safer, more efficient movement in basketball athletes.

Professional Benefits

• Specialized Basketball Knowledge: Build focused expertise in corrective exercise strategies for basketball athletes.
• Improved Assessment Skills: Strengthen your ability to identify movement compensations and dysfunctions.
• Better Athlete Support: Help basketball athletes improve movement quality and manage injury risk.
• Advanced Corrective Exercise Application: Add advanced techniques to your corrective exercise approach when appropriate.
• Professional Development: Build knowledge in a specialized course developed in partnership with NBATA.
• Continuing Education Value: Earn 0.4 NASM CEUs.

Prerequisites

• Candidates must hold one of the following professional titles: Athletic Trainer, Chiropractor, Licensed Massage Therapist, or Physical Therapist.