Neurology for Athletes

Aspiring athletes strive for perfection in their sporting skills - but they then proceed to put all their focus into their bodies and rarely put effort into developing their brain.  A recent understanding of how skills are developed opens up an exciting new approach to creating perfect skills - by developing the cerebellum, the part of the brain that can make that happen.  By naturally improving its function research shows that skills, concentration, and emotional control can all be improved - and the results are remarkable.  The session will provide an outline of the research that has led to the development of new assessment techniques and personalized exercise programs to achieve this - and how a chiropractic clinic could offer this as a service to athletes.  

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. Understand role of the cerebellum in athletic performance, how the cerebellum “acquires skills” - the internal and inverse models, and what happens when it does its job well and the issues when it doesn’t. 
2. Learn how to assess cerebellar development in an athlete and tests used to assess neurological performance to identify potential for further development / setting goals by measuring neurological and “on the field” progress.
3. Learn how to assess eye-tracking and gaze performance.

1.0 Regular Credits - Approved