Return to Throwing Programs & Pitching Biomechanics with Dean Jackson
- Learn how to build and progress a return to throwing program after shoulder or elbow injury using objective criteria rather than time and distance alone.
- Featuring Dean Jackson, former professional baseball player and biomechanist, discussing the relationship between pitching biomechanics, throwing workload, rehabilitation, and arm injury prevention.
- Explore objective ways to monitor throwing volume, intensity, workload, distance, recovery, and athlete response during return-to-throw rehabilitation.
- Discuss the limitations of traditional interval throwing programs and how clinicians can individualize throwing progressions for baseball players and overhead athletes.
- Examine how strength, range of motion, biomechanics, workload tolerance, and throwing performance can inform return-to-play decisions.
- Designed for physical therapists, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning professionals, pitching professionals, and sports medicine clinicians working with throwing athletes.
Topics: Return to throwing program • Interval throwing program • Baseball rehabilitation • Pitching biomechanics • Throwing workload • Arm injury prevention • Return to play
Shoulder Instability Rehabilitation & Return to Sport Roundtable
- Learn current approaches to shoulder instability rehabilitation and return-to-sport decision-making in active and athletic populations.
- Review the evaluation and management of anterior, posterior, and recurrent shoulder instability, including mechanisms, examination findings, and clinical presentation.
- Discuss nonoperative and postoperative shoulder instability rehabilitation and important considerations following surgical stabilization.
- Explore rehabilitation strategies addressing shoulder strength, dynamic stability, neuromuscular control, kinetic-chain function, and sport-specific demands.
- Examine criteria-based return-to-sport testing after shoulder instability rather than relying exclusively on timelines.
- PRO+ faculty discuss clinical cases, rehabilitation progression, recurrent instability risk, and determining when an athlete is ready to return to competition.
- Designed for physical therapists, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning professionals, and sports medicine clinicians treating athletes with shoulder instability.
Topics: Shoulder instability rehabilitation • Anterior shoulder instability • Bankart repair rehabilitation • Shoulder stabilization • Return-to-sport testing • Athletic shoulder • Sports rehabilitation
Rotator Cuff Repair Rehabilitation: Standard of Care Roundtable
- Review the current standard of care for rotator cuff repair rehabilitation with PRO+ sports medicine faculty.
- Discuss postoperative rotator cuff repair protocols, including protection of the healing tendon, range-of-motion progression, strengthening, loading, and return to activity.
- Explore how tear characteristics, surgical considerations, tissue healing, patient presentation, and functional demands influence rehabilitation progression.
- Work through clinical rotator cuff repair case examples and discuss when rehabilitation should be modified rather than following a rigid postoperative protocol.
- Examine clinical decisions involving range of motion, rotator cuff strengthening, progressive loading, precautions, and return to sport or activity.
- Designed for physical therapists, PTAs, athletic trainers, and sports medicine clinicians managing patients following rotator cuff repair.
Topics: Rotator cuff repair rehabilitation • Rotator cuff repair protocol • Physical therapy after rotator cuff surgery • Postoperative shoulder rehabilitation • Rotator cuff strengthening • Return to sport
