Prepared and presented by Kusal Goonewardena APA Titled Sports & Physiotherapist

1. Exercise Prescription
What Does Your Athlete Need?
Kusal Goonewardena
APA Titled Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist

2. What Does
Your Athlete
Require?

3. “Test-Implement
Program-Retest”
Cycle

4. What does
your athlete
need?
Strength? Flexibility? Speed?
Balance? Coordination? Mindfulness?

5. Watch Video
“5 Elements for
Effective
Treatment”
Video #3: ‘What
Can’t Your Athlete
Do?’
[4.56 Min]

6. Watch Video
“5 Elements for
Effective
Treatment”
Video #4: ‘Planning
over 1 Year’
[3.50 Min]

7. How do you
work out what
needs to
improve?
Scientific Tests
Non-
Functional
Functional
Sports
Specific

8. How do you work
out what needs to
improve?
Patient Reported
Outcome
Measures
(PROMS)
Generic
(eg. SF-36: The
Short Form
Health Survey)
Condition Specific
(eg. ACL Injuries)
Population
Specific
(eg. Children)

9. How do you
work out what
needs to
improve?
A ‘hybrid’
Patient
Specific
Functional
Scale

10. Watch Video
“5 Elements for
Effective Treatment”
Video #5: ‘Patient
Specific Functional
Score Explained’
[4.07 Min]

11. Putting It
Together:
Macro
Meso
Micro Cycles

12. Macro
Annual
Full Season

13. Meso
Monthly
Training Phases eg.
Endurance Phase,
Recovery Phase

14. Micro
Daily or Weekly
Smallest unit of the training
program

15. Training sessions

16. 12 month plan Volume and Intensity

17. Latest
Concepts:
Neuro
Muscular
Function

18. Latest
Concepts:
Neuro
Muscular
FLEXIBILITY

19. Latest
Concepts:
Neuro
Muscular
CONTROL

20. Watch Video
“5 Elements for Effective
Treatment”
Video #9: ‘Use
Technology’
[5.30 Min]

21. Case Study:
Telehab
Exercise
Prescription
Platform