2025 Lower Quarter Foundation Webinar #3
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Path of Least Resistance: Implications for Trunk and Lower Extremities
The Foundation Webinars will cover the key principles of the kinesiopathologic model, as they apply to the lumbar spine and lower extremities. The 5 webinars are designed to present the foundational concepts of the kinesiopathologic model in enough detail and relevance so they can be applied immediately to clinical practice.
- Event date: March 5, 2025 Wednesday
- Time: 7pm-8:30pm Central Time
- Location: Zoom
- Speaker: Andrew Piraino, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS
After 3/5/2025, the content will be available as a self-study online course in your course page.
When you register for Foundation Webinars, you will be registered for all 5 events from January to May, 2025 for $200. If you are currently an active ALL ACCESS member, you DO NOT need to register, as these 5 webinars are included in your membership.
Webinar Description
This is the third of five Lower Quarter Foundation Webinars in 2025. This course integrates knowledge of musculotendinous and capsuloligamentous [MM1] behavior into a foundation for understanding human movement at a macroscopic level. Properties of viscoelastic tissues such as stiffness and tension are described in relationship to stretch, activation, and physiological changes. This is synthesized within thea kinesiopathological framework to understand their effects on the development of excessive relative motion flexibility at one body region due to altered motion at another. The course emphasizes the lumbar spine and hip to illustrate examples of resultant movement system dysfunction, heightened tissue sensitivity, and potential injury.
Participants have the choice of attending the live webinar on March 5, 2025, and/or reviewing the presentation as a self-paced online course. To receive CEU approved by California PT Association, participant must complete the course evaluation AND score 80% or higher on the post-webinar quiz. CEU will expire on March 5, 2026, therefore, post-webinar quiz must be passed before the recording access expires or by March 5, 2026, whichever comes first.
Learning Objectives
Upon viewing this webinar content, and passing the post-webinar quiz on the course page, the participants will be able to:
- Describe the effect of physiological changes in muscle architecture on motion at a joint segment or series of segments.
- Understand how variability in muscle stiffness surrounding the lumbar spine and hip can influence passive and active movement.
- Explain the concepts of inter-segmental and intra-segmental relative flexibility in regard to the lumbar and femoroacetabular regions.
- Explain the relevance of regions such as the foot/ankle to proximal movement dysfunction at the lumbar spine and hip.
Schedule
March 5, 2025 Wednesday (Central Time)
7pm: Speaker introduction and announcements
7:05pm ~ 8:15pm: Lecture
8:15pm ~ 8:30pm: Q&A and discussion, post-webinar instructions for CEUs
After the live Zoom webinar, recording will be uploaded to your course page, as a self-paced online course.
Speaker Profile: Andrew Piraino, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS
Dr. Piraino is a residency and fellowship-trained, board-certified orthopaedic clinical specialist. He works at Houston Methodist Clear Lake in a hybrid role in patient care, clinical education development and delivery. He previously served as a national faculty and steering committee member at Select Medical for their continuing education courses and orthopaedic residency program, and at the University of Southern California in a full-time clinical faculty role. He authored the 2017 monograph on Neuromuscular Healing for the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and has published in the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy and the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. His primary areas of focus are advancing physical therapy practice in movement expertise while improving comprehension of the cellular mechanisms underpinning tissue healing and our interventions.
