Move Rehab from Conscious Control Back to Automatic Brilliance.
Bridge the gap between perfect clinic mechanics and chaotic real-world performance. Learn how to integrate 5 research-backed motor learning principles into your sports rehab practice to drastically lower re-injury rates.
A short, focused CPD course built specifically for sports rehabilitation in South Africa.
5 CPD points · Full access · R299
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Traditional rehabilitation addresses tissue.
Neuroplastic rehabilitation also considers motor control.
Athletes can complete rehabilitation, meet return-to-play criteria, and still move differently under pressure, fatigue, distraction, and changing sport demands.
This course explores the clinical gap between successful tissue healing and robust, adaptable movement.
Using ACL rehabilitation as a practical lens, physiotherapist and researcher Amanda Hawke introduces strategies that can be applied across sports rehabilitation settings.
This course is for you if you are:
- A sports physiotherapist or biokineticist working with active patients and athletes
- Interested in applying neuroplasticity and motor-learning principles in practical ways
- Looking for fresh ideas beyond repetitive exercise prescription
- Working with return-to-sport rehabilitation, especially ACL and lower-limb injury
- Ready to examine some of the cueing and session-design habits that are easy to default to with your patients.
What You'll Get
Across six concise expert-led videos, you will explore five motor-learning principles that can help you rethink familiar rehabilitation tasks.
1. External focus of attention
Learn how small shifts in your language can direct attention away from body parts and toward movement outcomes in the environment.
2. Implicit learning
Use analogy, imagery, and metaphor to reduce overthinking and support more automatic movement control.
3. Differential learning
Move beyond repetitive sets and reps by introducing purposeful variation into rehabilitation tasks.
4. Contextual interference
Understand how task order and practice variability can influence retention and transfer beyond the clinic.
5. Self-controlled learning
Use choice, feedback, and positive reinforcement to increase engagement and support motor learning.
What makes this course practical
This is not a theory-heavy neuroscience lecture.
Amanda translates research into clinical decisions you can test in your next session:
- How you phrase instructions
- How you use external versus internal cues
- How you introduce movement variability
- How you structure practice order
- How you create more athlete agency within rehabilitation
You will leave with a clearer framework for designing rehabilitation that better reflects the variability, decision-making, and attentional demands of sport.
Meet Your Instructor
Amanda Hawke
Physiotherapist and researcher
Amanda brings together more than a decade of clinical physiotherapy experience with focused research into neuroplasticity and motor learning in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
Her teaching is grounded in a simple clinical question: how can we help athletes rebuild movement control that is not only effective in rehabilitation, but resilient in sport?
Through Stride Medical, Amanda now mentors the next generation of biokineticists, combining academic and research knowledge with clinical experience. This course is built from that real-world foundation.
Frequently Asked Questions
"Who is this course for?"
Yes, absolutely. In fact, the course is designed with solo practitioners in mind. Most of what you'll learn — choosing your business structure, naming rules, registrations — matters more when you're solo because you don't have a partner or employer handling the admin side.
The only difference is that if you start solo and later want to add a partner or grow into a team, you'll have the foundation in place to do that without restarting everything. That's actually the whole point.
"Do I need a neuroscience or motor-learning background?"
No advanced background is required.
The course begins with a short introduction to key concepts, including neuroplasticity, afferent and efferent systems, and conscious versus automatic motor control. The emphasis is on making the clinical implications understandable and usable.
"How practical is the course?"
Very practical.
You will explore specific ways to change how you cue patients, structure exercise sessions, introduce variability, organize practice, and use feedback. The course includes examples for familiar rehabilitation tasks such as squats, hops, jumps, balance tasks, and running.
"Does this replace traditional rehabilitation?"
No. Neuroplasticity-informed rehabilitation is intended to complement traditional tissue-focused rehabilitation.
The aim is not to abandon strength, range-of-motion, or tissue-healing principles. It is to add strategies that help patients rebuild more automatic, adaptable motor control alongside them.
"Will I get my CPD points?"
Yes. The course delivers 5 HPCSA CPD points. You'll receive your certificate and documentation for submission to HPCSA upon completion of the final assessment.
No need to do anything special — it's built in.
"Is there a payment plan?"
Currently, it's one payment of R299. If that's a barrier, reach out — we can explore options.
"How do I access the course after I buy it?"
You'll get immediate access to your Kajabi account. You can start watching videos, downloading workbooks, and completing modules right away.
All you need is an email address and a password. Simple setup, instant access.
"Will the course be updated if regulations change?"
Yes. HPCSA and BASA guidelines can shift. When they do, we update the course to reflect current requirements. You have lifetime access, so you'll see updates automatically.
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