We are thrilled to announce that Matt Phillips, creator of Runchatlive.com and our Injury Rehab & Running Performance Specialist at The ST School, will be a speaker at this year’s Therapy Expo at the Birmingham NEC, presenting in Theatre C on Day 1 and delivering a practical workshop in our Hands On Hub on Day 2:
- November 27th (Day 1) 10.25am in Theatre C – ‘Clinical Application Of Gait Analysis For The Injured Runner’
- November 28th (Day 2) 12.50pm in the Hands On Hub – ‘Gait Analysis Practical Demonstration: How To Shift Load’
Matt’s presentations last year at Therapy Expo 2023 were extrememly popular, including a co-presentation with Siddharth Hans, founder of of GaitOn Motion Analysis Systems. If you are a soft tissue therapist who has not yet attended Therapy Expo, it is a marvellous two day event of multidisciplinary training & CPD education with particular focus on areas such as musculoskeletal medicine, sports injuries and neurorehabilitation, as well as the latest innovations in practice & business management skills. You will also find Matt, as always, hosting the two days of presentations in the STA Update Theatre at Therapy Expo (Matt Phillips is host of the Sports Therapy Association Podcast).
Interested In Learning Gait Analysis?
‘Gait Analysis For Runners: A Modern Approach’ is a CPD course ceated & delivered by Matt Phillips, in association with The ST School. Locations in 2025 for the face-to-face Day 3 of the course are now being released. Manchester in March has been confirmed (click here for details). if there are any other regions in the UK (and beyond) where you would like Day 3 to be held, please click here to make a suggestion (see button at end of the linked page) .
Who Is The Course For?
The course is designed for any practitioner interested in starting up a Gait Analysis For Runners service, including:
• Sports Massage Therapists
• Sports Therapists
• Soft Tissue Therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Chiropractors
• Osteopaths
Will I Need A Treadmill?
The course explores all options to allow you to design a gait analysis service that suits YOUR business and YOUR clients, including:
• Indoors with treadmill
• Outdoors with no treadmill
• Large or small space
• Big or small budget
What Course Content Is A Modern Approach To Gait Analysis?
Gait Analysis can be a hugely beneficial tool for runners, but often not for the reasons we are traditionally taught. Despite the popular use of Gait Analysis to screen runners for ‘biomechanical flaws’ to reduce running related injury and/or increase running performance, the success of such is often hit & miss. The fact that so many runners still get injured (or re-injured) is testimony to this. In this course, running injury & performance specialist Matt Phillips of runchatlive.com will not only guide you through all of the traditional elements of Gait Analysis, but also draw upon research to highlight the limitations of a solely ‘biomechanical’ approach. With this in mind, we can then consider evidence-informed ways that we can use a gait analysis service to help runners recovery from injury, reduce risk of future injury, and optimise performance.
Click here for full details of the Gait Course, and if you have any questions feel free to use our contact form, and sign up for the Runchatlive Newsletter.
