LIVE ONLINE COURSES 2025


TENDINOPATHY MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION
Novel Exercise and Nutritional Strategies
  

ONLINE WEBINAR (Zoom)

Dr. Keith Baar
 

Date: 3 April 2025  •  19:00 - 21:00 UK time (7 - 9 pm)

 

CPD hours: 2  •  cost: £45  
 
STUDENT FEE: £20.00 • USE DISCOUNT CODE "student"
 
In this lecture, Dr. Keith Baar will present a comprehensive approach that integrates biomechanics, rehabilitation principles, and nutrition to promote tendon and ligament health.

This course explores the structure and function of tendons and ligaments, comparing their characteristics in healthy and injured states. Students will gain an understanding of viscoelasticity and examine the mechanical behavior of healthy tendons.

The lecture will also delve into the physiological changes that occur in tendons during immobilisation, as well as the minimal effective loading dose required to maintain the health of tendons, ligaments, and bones. Additionally, the course will contrast the effects of different types of loads on both healthy and injured tendons.
Finally, participants will be introduced to the scientific evidence supporting the use of nutritional supplements to enhance tendon recovery and outcomes.

Dr Keith Baar received his Bachelor’s in Kinesiology from the University of Michigan where he also served as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach with the University of Michigan Football team. He then received a Master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois where he discovered the molecular signal that causes load-induced muscle hypertrophy.
He did his postdoctoral studies on the molecular mechanism underlying the muscular adaptation to endurance exercise under the direction of the legendary Dr. John O. Holloszy at Washington University in St. Louis.
Keith is currently the head of the Functional Molecular Biology Laboratory (FMBLab) at the University of California Davis. His research is focused on determining the effect of exercise, nutrition, age, and disease on musculoskeletal tissue function. Work from his lab spans from the molecular mechanisms that lead to adaptation to human studies that translate these basic discoveries to interventions that improve longevity and quality of life.
 
The course will provide for OSTEOPATHIC PRACTICE STANDARDS CPD requirements in the following areas:

2 hours Learning with Others


OPS CPD RequirementsLearning include
Communication and patient partnershipListening, respecting patient's concerns and preferences, dignity and modesty, effective communication, providing information, consent, patient partnership.
Knowledge, skills and performance Having sufficient knowledge and skills, working within training and competence, keeping up to date, analysing and reflecting on information to enhance patient care.
Safety and quality in practicePatient evaluation, management, safeguarding, wider role in enhancing patients' health and wellbeing.