Fasten your sports recovery / self-treatment course

Fasten your sports recovery / self-treatment course

In this course Mathias Van Den Broeck, who has a masters degree in both Physiotherapy as Osteopathy, explains some tips and tricks to recover faster after endurance training like cycling, running or triathlon. The course is also interesting for other athletes that use their lower limbs a lot during training/matchplay. In the course some techniques are tought to reduce your muscle soreness and stifness after heavy endurance training. The techniques that are used are trigger point massage, Jones techniques for trigger points, massage gun techniques, IASTM (instrument assisted soft tissue mobilizations) and foam rolling exercises. Also the basics of dry needling are explained and dry needling of the medial proximal gastrocnemius muscle is shown, but doing dry needling with no medical background is discouraged at all times.

Some tips about suppletion of Calcium, Vitamin D and Magnesium is explained. The small theoretical section about trigger point therapy is integrated. The importance of good night rest and cooling down is explained and the theory on how pneumatic compression therapy works is also integrated.

If you are a cyclist, runner, triathlete, or any other athlete that uses their lower limbs a lot, then this course is ideal for you to learn how to recover faster.

Learn how to self-treat yourself to reduce your recovery time after endurance training.

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What you will learn

• Learn how to do an IASTM treatment for your lower limbs yourself.
• Learn how to self-massage your lower limbs.
• Learn how to do proper trigger point therapy on your own lower limbs. Jones techniques, trigger point massage and foam rolling exercises are tought.

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Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Mathias Van Den Broeck