An Ecological Dynamics Perspective in Exercise & Movement Rehabilitation

An Ecological Dynamics Perspective in Exercise & Movement Rehabilitation

Welcome to a dynamic event exploring the intersection of exercise, movement, and rehabilitation from an ecological perspective. Join us at Wexham Park Hospital for the workshop. This will be a highly interactive event, combining short theoretical presentations with hands-on experiential activities and clinical case discussions. Participants will actively engage in developing practical rehabilitation interventions and receive direct guidance from expert facilitators. The training will culminate in actionable clinical strategies that practitioners can implement immediately in their rehabilitation practice.

Please note this training provides supplementary professional development and does not lead to an additional formal qualification.

What you take away

· Workbook that integrates an assessment, planning, and monitoring tool with key theory and explainers

· Co‑created self‑test examples you can adapt for your patients.

Core ideas

Real life is messy. People move in varied, ever‑changing contexts. This one‑day course shows you how to assess with representative design, coach with evidence based instructions, feedback and practice schedules, and monitor progress as co‑adaptation so that movement becomes robust, flexible and functional.

What you’ll learn (the three pillars)

1) Assessment: Representative design to understand individual constraints

-Craft assessments that mirror the person’s environments, tasks and constraints.

-Map individual constraints that shape movement options.

-Turn findings into meaningful targets for practice design.

2) Treatment: Make optimal use of instructions, feedback and practice scheduling

-Use tools and techniques that promotes self‑organisation and opportunities for both patient and practitioner to learn

-Choose evidence-based feedback types and schedules (knowledge of results vs performance, bandwidth, faded, summary).

-Structure practice (blocked vs random, constant vs variable, differential practice) to build functional movement variability.

3) Monitoring progress: Co‑adaptatively learning with your client

-Track change as an ongoing therapist–patient dynamic, not a one‑way prescription.

-Blend patient‑reported outcomes with simple, repeatable behavioural markers.

-Use short feedback loops to jointly adjust constraints, tasks and cues.

Learning outcomes (by the end of the day you will be able to…)

-Design an assessment that reflects real‑world tasks and the person’s unique constraints.

-Select instructions and feedback that enhance exploration, autonomy and functional variability.

-Plan practice that transfers (not just performs in clinic) using appropriate scheduling and variability.

-Monitor progress through co‑adaptive design features and sensitive, low‑burden measures.

-Translate all of the above into a simple, repeatable session template that supports clinical reasoning.

Who should attend?

Physiotherapists, occupational therapists, sports rehabilitators, S&C/athletic trainers, and final‑year students who want their rehab to stick outside the clinic.

Format & approach

1 day, highly practical: mini‑lectures, live demos, small‑group labs, case design sprints.

NOTE!

All Frimley Health employees please make sure to get your discount code!