This course presents a contemporary, clinically focused approach to evaluating and managing shoulder dysfunction. Participants will use the CRISP framework to screen for red flags, identify likely pain generators, and recognize contributing factors such as cervical involvement, referred pain, neural irritation, impaired movement, and regional interdependence. The lecture will review shoulder anatomy, biomechanics, muscle function, examination strategies, common pathologies, postoperative precautions, and criteria-based rehabilitation progressions. Each two-hour session will include one hour of lecture followed by one hour of hands-on exercises emphasizing assessment, mobility, rotator cuff and scapular strengthening, neuromuscular control, closed-chain training, and functional rehabilitation progressions for clinical practice.
Learning Objectives
- Apply a contemporary framework for evaluating shoulder dysfunction.
- Differentiate local shoulder pathology from cervical, neurological, visceral, and referred pain.
- Assess shoulder mobility, strength, stability, and functional movement.
- Evaluate common movement pattern dysfunctions
- Develop individualized, criteria-based rehabilitation strategies.
Sponsor – American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board and American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists