CAFS Course Notes

My notes from the Gray Institute Course

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Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.S. in Kinesiology

Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.A. in Neuroscience

Compression is required for

Transformation: is either expending energy or “cultivating energy”

Transformation refers to the transitional point between “loading” and “exploding.”

Movement checklist

  1. Action
  2. Environment
  3. Position
  4. Drive
  5. Direction
  6. Height
  7. Distance
  8. Load
  9. Rate
  10. Duration

Action

subdivided into global movements and local movements

Global Movements

  • Fundamental
  • Skills
  • Tasks

Local Movements

  • Regionally
  • Structurally

Environment

  • outdoors / indoors
  • pool vs ocean

Positions

  • Standing
  • Seated
  • Kneeling
  • Prone
  • Side Lying
  • Supine
  • Transitions

Transitions: positions between two other positions:

  • Between sitting and lying would occur during bed mobility

Driver

Raise R arm overhand and rotate the arm as far as you can to the right:

Results in pronated L foot and supinated R foot.

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