REBOOT - Sports Performance
From Plateau in Performance to Accelerated Achievement
Sports REBOOT is an Occupational Therapy program designed to assist sports coaches to identify and strengthen the underlying missing links in sensory integration which support an athlete's’ performance. This program aims to connect with existing training programs and collaborate with ongoing rehabilitation plans. Within a sports program the athletes have expert support for their physical, their psychological, their medical, and their dietary/biochemical well-being, however. the impact of sensory sensitivities, self-regulation, and sensory integration on performance and recovery is often undervalued or misunderstood.
What is Sensory Integration?
What does Sports REBOOT offer coaches?
Sports REBOOT has two phases, an education series for coaches looking to learn about sensory integration and other developmental neuroscience principles, including ways to implement these strategies independently or within an existing coaching framework. 6 week Education Program -
Introduction Webinar (available as an online video to review after presentation) -
“Could sensory integration be the missing link in creating highly successful athletes”
~ Six, 90-minute webinar presentations, held weekly on an evening - recorded materials available for review
~ Activities and follow-up exercises to trial and practice
● Teamwork - “Interdisciplinary approaches to core stability and links to performance”
● Wider thinking - “Helping athletes be high achiever outside of sport too”
● Injuries - “What assists in injury management and exercise compliance”
● Baby-steps - “Developmental movement analysis in complex skills”
● Emotions - “Keeping communication open when the thinking brain shuts down”
● Next level - “Let’s help to stop triggering a stress response 100x each second”
~ Ongoing group calls and options to review speciÚc athletes each week
Course begins - February 2017
Personal Mentoring
Additionally, there are three (3) places available each year (Sydney-based) for personal mentoring within an organisation or sporting team where coaches have access to weekly face-to-face teaching and treatment options. Understandable, highly performing athletes require a highly performing coach who can maintain energy levels, divide attention, manage workloads and keep calm in high pressure situations. This personal mentoring program also considers the importance of high functioning within coaches brain/body connectivity. This includes sensory integrative and tension reducing treatments for the coach, which will assist with maintaining high performance throughout all aspects of the organisation.
PLUS
- Direct teaching of the 6-stage Education Program (within 1-1 or in-house team)
- Sensory integrative based technique analysis for athletes
What does Sports REBOOT offer athletes?
Athletes have the option between soft-tissue treatment sessions and/or the full assessment and sensory integration program. During a treatment session aspects from the RECOVER component will be implemented to reduce body tension, or support existing early stage rehabilitation plans. During an assessment session (and subsequent session), aspects of RELAX and PERFORM will be thoroughly evaluated to find where/how the athlete’s diÜculties can be improved.
RECOVER
SOFT TISSUE - Using trigger points and analysis of restricted movements to reduce body tension
FASCIA RELEASE - Applied multi-directional pressure to realign fascial structures to re-spread load
MASSAGE - Swedish massage to warm/relax areas of the body, plus redistributing retained ꨆuid
STRETCHING - Guided and assisted stretching techniques to improve ꨆexibility
RELAX
SENSORY PROCESSING - Addressing the need for movement intensity when limited by precautions
PROBLEM SOLVING - Often simple daily activities can become more challenging due to injury
CREATE ROUTINE - Understanding the additional responsibilities can help plan rehabilitation exercises
EDUCATION - Assisting athletes to comprehend the information about their injury/rehabilitation
PERFORM
SENSORY INTEGRATION - Discovering how well the brain calibrates sensory information for action
FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGY - Understanding the relationship between sections of the brain and action
DEVELOPMENTAL MOVEMENT - Smooth effortless movement is developed from birth, and then refined
TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS - Applying complex clinical reasoning to improve specific technical faults
Does this sound like a program that your athletes could benefit from?
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