Biomechanics - Getting the Knowledge

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Hi everyone,
this is my first post on here, I'm a 'soon to qualify' uk podiatry student, hoping to be registered by late summer. (NHS employment probably being my first port of call with hopefully chances to shadow MSK/Biomechanics Pods)

My primary area of interest is bio-mechanics (I have previous background in sport/fitness, competitive body-building, personal training) Ive been reading, learning and taking in as much as I can, thus far, but really looking to accelerate my learning by the most efficient route possible.....Privately run courses, online learning, MSc modules... ALG bootcamp Glasgow this summer? also Summer school in Manchester?
...willing to spend some money but wishing to do so as wisely as possible.


All/any advice welcome,

Thanks.

 

Make Craig's boot camp priority number 1. You'll take loads away from those two days.

 

I would recommend purchasing the complete set of Foot and Lower Extremity Biomechanics by
Dr. Kevin Kirby. That would be an excellent start on your path.

Steven

 

The shadowing of Msk all depends on where you work most trusts will put you into the rotation where you can shadow an Msk clinic as part of your development. But dont expect this to be more than half a day a month in most instances.When you join as a band 5 most of your workload will be routine based. In your 1st 3 months thats what you will do then after that is when the rotations will should start.

Msk clinics and service provision will vary trust by trust dependent on commissioned services. For example where I work 50% of the referrals are msk in origin. But when I used to work in a london trust the msk referrals only accounted for 25% so there was a greater provision for routine care. When you apply for jobs I would advise ringing the your potential employer for an informal chat to ask them things like this.

In my opinion I would avoid putting in for msk masters modules until you have at least a years experience under your belt. However msk courses in general will give you knowledge base to build on so should you pursue masters modules in the future you wont completely be jumping in at the deep end. I myself in my myself have been on Craig Paynes boot camp back in 2012 which had a great impact used my msk knowledge practically.