COURSE DESCRIPTION

• Credit Level: Student Practitioner Level 2
• Length of course: 4 days
• PREREQUISITE: There are NO PREREQUISITES for this course.
• EXAM: There is NO EXAM for this course.
• COURSE CERTIFICATE: Upon completion of this course a certificate will be given to authorize the student as an ELDOA Student Practitioner Level 1&2.

LECTURE TOPICS INCLUDE:

• The General Anatomy & Biomechanics of the Spine
• Back Pain: Medical Approach vs. the ELDOA
• Introduction to Tensegrity Biomechanics
• Guy VOYER’s Educational Paradigm – “Learn by Doing”
• The Philosophy of the ELDOA “You Are Your Own Best Therapist.”
• The History and development of the ELDOA
• Philosophy of the complexity
• Mobility vs. Stability
• Water: hydration concepts
• Techno-methodology & ELDOA exercises – C4/C5; T6/T7; T8/T9; L5/S1

• Classical Spine Biomechanics, Descriptive Anatomy & Kinesiology
• Back Pain: Introduction to Scoliosis & Spinal Pathologies
• Description of the Intervertebral Disc and its Biomechanics
• Functional Spine Unit of Junghans & the roll of the Intervertebral Disc
• Introduction to the Dura Mater, Cerebra Spinal Fluid & Primary Respiratory Mechanics: General ELDOA
• Physiology of Water at a cellular level: Intercellular vs. Extracellular
• Techno-methodology and practice of ELDOA posture in practice from C2-C3 to L5-S1
• Advanced Coaching Methodology: Awareness, MFS, Lemniscate, Factors of progression