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Neurobiomechanics at the Olympic training centre – my training experience

Tino Both · 23 Mar 2025 · 2 min read

Briefly explained: From 19 to 22 March 2025, I deepened my knowledge of neurobiomechanics at the Munich Olympic training centre. Dr. Philip Eckardt’s course focused on functional relationships between nerves, joints and movement.

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Four intensive days in Munich

From 19 to 22 March 2025, I attended the neurobiomechanics course led by Dr. med. Philip Eckardt at the Munich Olympic training centre. The Werner-von-Linde-Halle at the Olympic Park was a fitting place to explore movement and functional relationships further.

Nerves are more than wires in a diagram

The course addressed peripheral nerves, movement patterns and joint mechanics, among other things. A change of position can alter mechanical demands along a nerve’s course. Such relationships were practically compared within the course’s functional assessment system.

We also explored stepping, rotation and jaw patterns, and which starting assessment and re-test fit a specific intervention.

When functions are little used in everyday life

Another topic was ‘learned non-use’. The term comes from neurorehabilitation and describes learned lack of use; it should not be indiscriminately equated with every movement that is practised little.

For my daily work, I was particularly interested in considering use, experience and current possibilities together: which function is avoided, what is actually possible and how can a suitable task become accessible again?

What I personally take away

I deepened my knowledge of peripheral nerves and their practical relationships, discovered additional assessment routes and brought new questions into work with clients.

The training also reinforced my decision at the time to begin training as a Heilpraktiker, a German alternative practitioner. This does not equate to an already granted Heilpraktiker licence. Above all, I take away the commitment to assess functional relationships more precisely and understandably.

Sources and further links

Neurobiomechanics at the Neurolog Akademie: https://neurolog.de/de/kursprogramm-de/details/neurobiomechanik

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