Return to Sport after shoulder injury: When is your athlete ready to return? Sunday 28th June

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📅 Sunday 28th June 2026 | 9:00am – 4:00pm
📍 Pro-Health Physio / Pioneer Performance, 5 Hawick Cres, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 1AS
Knowing when an athlete is ready to return to sport is rarely straightforward. This session breaks down return-to-sport testing into a clear, usable framework — helping clinicians move beyond time-based decisions and toward confident, criteria-driven reasoning. You'll learn how to interpret tests, recognise false readiness, and integrate physical performance with confidence and control.
Programme Schedule
9:00 – Introduction: Time vs Criteria, models guiding return to play, sports-specific constructs
10:00 – Physical Performance Tests
11:30 – When to use what test?
12:00–1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – Fear of reinjury in RTS: strategies for clinicians
2:00 – Cortical changes, coordination and reaction time
3:00 – Clinical decision making: pulling it all together / Case studies
4:00 – Finish
Goals for the Day
Identify sports-specific demands and tailor return-to-sport testing for athletes from different sports
Assess an athlete's readiness to meet sport-specific shoulder requirements
Utilise psychological assessment tools to evaluate fear of reinjury and implement strategies to address kinesiophobia
Synthesise physical, psychological, and sport-specific factors in return-to-sport decision-making using case examples