Stability, Sport and Performance Movement

Joanne Elphinston is a performance consultant, international lecturer, and physiotherapist working with elite and professional athletes, including medalists in Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and World Championships; Premiership footballers; and professional golfers. Elphinston has served as a performance movement consultant for the British Olympic Association and has advised professional sporting organizations on technical movement enhancement for performance, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. She also has extensive experience in child and adolescent movement development for sports and progression into senior competition. With author Paul Pook, she cowrote the best-selling book The Core Workout.

• Part I. Foundations and FundamentalsChapter 1. Force, Flow and Functional Force ManagementChapter 2. Exploring the Stability ConceptChapter 3. The Anatomy of StabilityChapter 4. Key Concept for Efficient MovementChapter 5. Functional AssessmentPart II. Developing Fluent ControlChapter 6. Phase 1 – Activation and AwarenessChapter 7. Phase 2 – IntegrationChapter 8. Phase 3 – Global CoordinationChapter 9. Phase 4 – Dynamic ControlChapter 10. Stability Across the Training ProgrammeChapter 11. Sample ProgrammesChapter 12. Rehabilitation PathwaysAppendix 1. Commonly Used TermsAppendix 2. List of Common PatternsAppendix 3. Scoring Charts of the Capsule Functional Assessment