Swimmers - Assessment

Swimming and surfing are extremely popular sports, and if your clinical practice is anything like ours, you get to treat lots of recreational and elite swimmers for acute and overuse injuries. If you would like to improve your specific assessment of swimmers, assess their biomechanics and speed up their recovery, this online Physio education topic is for you.

"Physiotherapy Assessment of Swimmers", is presented by Cameron Elliott, a Sports-titled Physiotherapist working with Sydney Sports Medicine Centre, treating elite athletes with the NSW Institute of Sport.

In this instalment of "Physiotherapy Assessment of Swimmers", you will learn to test specific ranges of movement that are vital for your swimmers in the upper body, differentiate a good swimmer from a great swimmer and identify technique errors that may slow a swimmer.