The Pain Free Movement Specialist Level 1 Online Course, led by renowned expert Anthony Carey, is your gateway to mastering corrective exercise techniques and building the expertise to work with clients experiencing pain. This comprehensive course is designed to enhance your skillset, enabling you to specialize in addressing the needs of diverse populations, including baby boomers, seniors, post-rehabilitation clients, and individuals with musculoskeletal challenges.
By becoming a certified Pain-Free Movement Specialist, you’ll gain the tools to help your clients eliminate pain and enhance their functionality, health, and wellness using effective, non-invasive methods. This course opens new opportunities to expand your business by serving a growing demand for fitness professionals skilled in working with special populations
What You’ll Learn
The Level 1 curriculum focuses on the foundational knowledge and techniques required to deliver life-changing results. You’ll gain a deep understanding of how to assess movement dysfunctions, create targeted corrective exercise programs, and empower your clients to regain control of their movement and well-being.
Through a carefully structured curriculum consisting of six modules, this online course provides over 14 hours of video content, engaging webinars, downloadable PDFs, and a copy of Anthony Carey’s acclaimed book, The Pain-Free Program: A Proven Method to Relieve Back, Neck, Shoulder, and Joint Pain. These resources will thoroughly prepare you to advance to the Level 2 live event for hands-on learning and application.
Why Choose the Pain-Free Movement Specialist Course?
This course goes beyond theory to provide you with practical skills and actionable knowledge. By enrolling, you’ll:
- Expand Your Client Base: Specialize in working with growing populations, including older adults, post-rehabilitation clients, and those managing musculoskeletal issues.
- Enhance Your Credibility: Gain a certification that sets you apart as a trusted expert in pain-free movement and corrective exercise.
- Deliver Results: Help clients improve their quality of life through non-invasive, evidence-based techniques that address the root causes of their pain.
- Prepare for Advanced Learning: Complete the Level 1 online course to qualify for the Level 2 live event, where you’ll refine your hands-on skills and deepen your expertise.
Overview
This online course is specifically designed for those wishing to work with individuals in pain. The Level 1 has six modules, all of which are:
the foundation that the Pain-Free Movement Specialist (PFMS) stands on.
How to help eliminate pain by addressing the body as a whole, and that pain is unique to each individual.
The only exercise-based program designed specifically using a Biopyschosocial approach
How pain affects the balance of your clients’ physical biology, social interaction, and psychological state.
How to coach exercise sequencing in a given session based on the clients biological, psychological and emotional readiness.
How to progress your clients through changing movement patterns and build on their success.
Curriculum
Module 1: Functional Anatomy & Biomechanics: A Unified View
Traditional anatomy and biomechanics have looked at human movement primarily through an isolated frame of reference. In this module, both Anthony and Kevin describe how understanding’ functional’ anatomy and whole-body biomechanics is essential for the movement and manual practitioner to comprehend, and the profound results this understanding can have with any client, patient or athlete.
Module 2: The Sensory Motor System
In an effort to simplify the understanding of human movement, traditional perspectives take stability and mobility and separate them into two completely independent entities. In actuality, stability and mobility never work in isolation. The nervous system is decidedly sophisticated and to comprehend how stability and mobility work together as an interdependent system, one must appreciate how the body gathers information, interprets it and then produces an appropriate response. This intricate process takes place via the sensory-motor system. In this module, Anthony elaborates on the power of the nervous system and dives deep into the principles behind a body-wide “software” system which is essential for understanding sensory-motor integration.
Module 3: Coaching Necessities
What does a successful corrective intervention look like to the client in pain and how can we understand and appreciate how they’ve defined it? A skilled practitioner recognizes how to promptly develop a working relationship with their clientele to understand and appreciate how pain has negatively impacted an individual’s thoughts, feelings and beliefs regarding their movement. Kevin Murray and international speaker Bobby Cappuccio share their expertise on the two domains of relationship; the intrapersonal affiliation we have with ourselves and the interpersonal relationship we must learn how to develop with our clients.
Module 4: The Function First Approach to the Client & Pain
What is pain? What purpose does it serve? How is it the exact same situation can be painful for one person and not another? Here’s the truth: pain is highly complex. There is no “one size fits all” approach. And working with individuals in chronic pain demands a foundational understanding of the biological, psychological and social factors that influence and contribute to an individual’s pain experience. In this module, Anthony will explain pain from a three-dimensional science-based perspective, moving far beyond the traditional lens of muscles and meridians into a vastly more robust and comprehensive analysis.
Module 5: The Function First Approach to Movement Assessments
Written within each of our clients are particular events and circumstances that influence their quality of movement and overall function. The assessment process in this module is fundamental to uncovering what is behind each individual’s unique movement profile. Because what’s “functional” is always specific to the individual, determining which corrective exercises are best suited for a client’s movement autonomy comes from the information gathered through the movement assessments. Anthony maps the Function First Approach to movement assessments and lays the foundation to understanding and interpreting the results.
Module 6: Corrective Exercise Programming Essentials
Founded on the premise that true restoration and pain-free living lie in addressing the body as a ‘whole’. When it comes to exercise selection and program design, nothing should be left to chance. There must be an ultimate purpose and clear end in mind when selecting exercises and designing corrective programs. Ascending a client through their exercise program from the cognitive to autonomic phases of motor learning provides an optimal environment for clients to maximize their quality of movement. Being able to justify the biomechanical, neurological, physiological and psychological aspects of programming is what elevates a Pain-Free Movement Specialist into an elite category of movement expertise. Within this module, Anthony will expand on the science, principles and framework behind what makes the Function First Approach to corrective exercise programming so successful.
Pre Requisites
The Pain Free Movement Specialist Level 1 Course is registered through the American Council on Exercise (ACE), providing valuable continuing education units (CEUs) for fitness professionals.
Since ACE is affiliated with AUSactive, Australian professionals can also obtain continuing education credits (CECs) through this course.
To claim your CECs, follow these simple steps:
Complete the course and receive your certification from ACE.
Submit your ACE certification to AUSactive for credit recognition.
AUSactive will verify your course completion and award the appropriate CECs.
This streamlined process ensures that fitness professionals in Australia can enhance their credentials while learning evidence-based practices to improve client outcomes. For more information on CEC’s allocations go to https://ausactive.org.au/members/learning-development/what-is-affiliated-education/
Course Author
Anthony Carey is a renowned expert in movement science, specializing in pain management and functional movement. With over 25 years of experience, he has worked extensively with clients to help them overcome pain, improve mobility, and achieve better overall movement.
As the creator of the Pain Free Movement Specialist course, Anthony combines his deep knowledge of biomechanics, neuroplasticity, and therapeutic exercise to provide effective solutions for pain management.
His approach focuses on correcting dysfunctional movement patterns to alleviate pain and improve quality of life, empowering professionals to help individuals achieve lasting pain relief and enhanced performance.
