Full Curriculum
SCI Basketball
Integrated Performance
10 modules. ~8 hours. 40+ lessons. A complete system for integrating rehabilitation, performance development, and ecological skill development in basketball, built from first principles.
Course Modules
Goal: Reframe how clinicians think about rehab and performance
- The linear rehab → performance → return model and why it fails in basketball
- Real-world consequences of the sequential approach
- PT vs S&C vs Skill coach disconnect
- Misaligned goals across staff and how they harm athletes
- SCI philosophy and integrated model preview
Goal: Teach the SCI system, the core intellectual property of this course
- Medical, Performance, and Skill, why all three must exist simultaneously
- Why skill development starts Day 1 of rehabilitation
- Constraint-based thinking in practice
- Stop thinking in exercises, start thinking in outputs
- Decision-making framework for integrated performance staff
- How elite staffs actually think
Goal: Bridge physiology with performance, replace myths with mechanisms
- What actually matters in tissue healing vs what is overemphasized
- Capacity development framework
- Distinguishing load tolerance from performance readiness
- When pain is clinically significant and when it is not a barrier to performance work
- Replacing time-based milestones with objective metrics
Goal: Build the physical foundation for basketball return-to-performance
- Acceleration, deceleration, and change-of-direction demands specific to basketball
- What clinicians commonly misunderstand about physical preparation
- SCI progressive loading model from early rehab through performance expression
- The most important physical quality in basketball, how to train and assess it
- Transfer principles, how weight room gains translate to court performance
Goal: The biggest differentiator in the SCI system, skill never waits
- Common mistakes in leaving skill to the final phase of rehab
- Ecological approach to skill acquisition simplified for clinical and coaching application
- 1-on-0 through live play, the full SCI on-court progression sequence
- Controlled to chaotic environments, managing load while increasing specificity
- Managing physical load and decision-making demands simultaneously
Goal: Make data-driven decisions the premium differentiator of your practice
- Moving beyond subjective assessment, building defensible progression criteria
- RFD, peak force, asymmetry, and deceleration impulse, what each means clinically
- Peak torque, time to peak torque, and H:Q ratios in return-to-sport decision making
- 5-0-5 COD, jump testing, and reactive strength, practical protocols for the court
- The decision-making framework practitioners pay for, criteria-based clearance in action
Goal: Separate SCI from standard return-to-play thinking
- Why medical clearance and performance readiness are not the same thing
- Force thresholds, movement quality, and skill readiness as integrated criteria
- Decision-making framework under uncertainty and time pressure
- Talking to coaches, general managers, and athletes about readiness criteria
Goal: Ground every system in the actual demands of basketball
- Cutting angles (45° and 90°), jump and landing patterns specific to basketball
- What actually stresses tissue in basketball, the loading patterns that drive injury
- Repeated sprint ability and fatigue impact on movement mechanics
Goal: Show the full SCI system in action from injury through return to court
- Full case walkthrough, ACL or groin injury in a basketball athlete
- Medical, performance, and skill working simultaneously in early rehabilitation
- Increasing complexity across all three domains as capacity improves
- Applying the testing battery and criteria-based clearance framework
- Complete case resolution, from first day of injury through full competition return
Goal: Application, this is what drives the lasting value of the course
- Step-by-step system building using SCI principles in your own environment
- Phase-based structure for building integrated programming across all three domains
- Applying the SCI model in clinic vs team vs private performance settings
- How to use this professionally, growing your practice around the integrated approach
Included Bonus Resources
- Force plate threshold cheat sheet
- Isokinetic benchmark reference table
- Court progression chart
- Phase-based programming templates
- Sample athlete readiness dashboard
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