Health and Safety Concerns in Training: Emerging Data on Loads, Fatigue, Biomechanics & Adjunctive
This presentation will focus on a number of different important considerations in athlete training and will include info on: Overuse signs and symptoms; how training load during key stages is related to both risk of injury as well as fatigue and illness; Biomechanics of spinal loading and the effect lifting loads on disc health; use of blood flow restriction devices in training, contraindications and precautions as well as what we currently know about appropriate application.
Dr. Brent Feland, MSPT, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Exercise Science Department at Brigham Young University where he teaches advanced functional anatomy, pathomechanics, orthopedic impairments, and functional neuroanatomy. Dr. Feland has been a licensed Physical Therapist for 25 years with a specialty interest in orthopedics with a focus on treatment of the shoulder, spine and the sacroiliac joint due to the common relationship with sports related injury.
Dr. Feland has over 40 publications in peer-reviewed professional journals and over 100 presentations both nationally and internationally. He has been a guest lecturer numerous times at a university in Oulu, Finland to teach about the shoulder and SI joint, and actually speaks Finnish. Dr. Feland has represented the CSCCa as a scientific advisor at 5 different NCAA Sports Science Institute interassociation task force summit’s to help protect strength and conditioning coach interests as the NCAA shaped policies regarding concussion, athlete health and safety and safety in football. His research has focused on stretching & flexibility, neural effects of whole-body-vibration training and vibration exposure as well as effects from blood flow restriction training. He is also a regular article reviewer for the Journal of Athletic Training, Journal of Sport Rehabilitation and The International Journal of Sports medicine. He is a member of the CSCCa written certification board and is also actively involved with the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Physical Therapy Association, and assists the CSCCa as a board member with (CREP) the Coalition for the Registration of Exercise Professionals.
