PHYSIO BIKEFIT COURSE

LEVEL 2 COURSE | Europe

Formerly Level 3-4

Paul Visentini FACP

Study Level 2 Physio Bikefit with world leaders in cycling injury prevention and management, where you will learn current best practice in cycling assessment and bike set-up. Study online and in person with our 2023 European dates.

Course Price €525

Course Dates

PHYSIO BIKEFIT LEVEL 2

In Person Workshops - International

  • Girona, Spain | 14-15 October 2023

Please note, this course includes a 2 day in person workshop. For Australian courses, click here.

Course Speaker

Paul Visentini | Specialist Sports Physiotherapist

What’s Included

  • 2 day in-person course.

  • A PDF & hard copy of the L2 manual.

  • A review of your L1 basics.

  • Access to the L1 online course - regardless of when you undertook L1.

  • Hands-on practical components & problem solving.

  • Take home knowledge of saddle, shoe and bars interface Bikefitting.

Course Outline

Physio Bikefit Level 2

Formerly Level 3-4

Our L2 course is the perfect extension to the L1 course you have previously undertaken. Whilst L1 gives the basic tools to assess the body and the bike in cycling, allowing you to initiate the development of your Physio BikeFit practice, L2 begins to drill down to more complex analysis and assessment of BikeFit related components.

A review of the L1 content initiates the L2, with a practice and discussion of the basic BikeFit. We then address the contact points looking at the evidence base around their assessment and management, the biomechanics and functional anatomy that may influence, and finish with a clear mechanism for decision making in fitting at the (a) seat, (b) pedals/shoes and (c) bars. We look at different bike styles and related fit, and most importantly develop our problem solving ability in Physio BikeFit.

Designed to progress you to the next stage and give you confidence in your management of cyclists and cycling injury.

Take your career to the next level with our new course. Held in person. This course will introduce new material and build on skills developed in Level 1.

Certification credits from the International Bike Fitting Institute apply. APA PD points apply.

LEVEL 1 COURSE REVIEW

  • A review of Level 1 including a Physio BikeFit

  • A review of Level 2 Physio BikeFit; Body, Injury & Rehabilitation

  • Fitting different styles of bike; Road, Aero, TT & MTB

THE CONTACT POINTS

Saddle Fit

  • Theory and evidence around cycling saddles

  • Saddle shape, size and structure

  • Types of bikes and riding in the context of saddles

  • Is it the saddle or the saddle position?

  • The BODY and the SADDLE; assessment, measurement (the full saddle fit process)

  • Technology in saddle fit

Shoe Fit

  • Types of shoes, cleats, pedals, spacers, inserts, wedges

  • Theory, evidence and functional considerations at the foot-pedal interface

  • Matching the foot to the shoe

  • What about inserts?

  • The ultimate cleat position practical

Hand and Bars Fit

  • An introduction to bars and rubbers (hoods) with a road emphasis

  • Bars width measure

  • How can bars and rubbers be adjusted for change to BikeFit

THE TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology in BikeFit

  • Technology Practical; saddle & foot pressure, measures & kinematics

PROBLEM SOLVING IN PHYSIO BIKEFIT

Case Studies Masterclass 'More than just numbers'

  • 2-3 Physio BikeFits will be undertaken & discussed

  • Clinical reasoning in the context of BikeFit will be analysed and workshopped.

Presenter Bio

Paul Visentini

Specialist Physiotherapist*

Paul Visentini is a Specialist Sports Physiotherapist, with his awarded sub-speciality in the area of lower limb tendinopathy. He completed post graduate studies in Manipulative Physiotherapy in 1994, and designed the VISA Score, a widely used functional outcome measure for Patellar Tendinopathy. He works as a clinician at Physiosports Brighton in Melbourne, Australia.

Paul is an International Bike Fitting Institute Level 4 Bikefitter. He has been involved in Cycling Injury Management at both elite and recreational level, having consulted to the Australian Institute of Sport in Varese, Italy, as well as working with leading NRS teams in Australia: Inform Cycling and Drapac EF. He is completing his Doctorate in Physiotherapy at LaTrobe University, investigating Overuse injuries in cycling.

He recently published Factors associated with overuse injury in cyclists: A systematic review and previously has published Overuse Injuries in Cycling in the Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal.

Paul has a passion for bikefit and cycling injury management, the evidence base involved, and the clinical reasoning process required to achieve the best results.

The ‘Physiosports PhysioBikefit’ course is a platform for the education of Cycling Injury Practitioners and Physio Bikefitters. Presented by Paul and other leaders in the cycling biomechanics and bikefit industry, ‘Physiosports PhysioBikefit’ has now been presented by Paul in both within Australia and internationally since 2013, and is now available on-line.

Physio Bikefit Level 2

Register Now

Girona, Spain
14 - 15 October 2023
E525 Standard Rate

At the end of your course, you will have an enhanced ability to assess the cycling body, rehabilitate and load manage. You will learn how to fit the bike to the cyclist's body to rule out bike fit as a problem source and have a working knowledge of current cycling science.