DNS – Exercise Course – Part 3
Course Goals and Description
Course objectives
- Review of developmental kinesiology in the context of adult optimal posture, sports performance and global motor patterns to enhance outcomes in sport and human movement.
- Demonstrate exercises in higher developmental positions – tripod, bear, squat, lunge, step up and its modifications & training of body awareness.
- Demonstrate exercises utilizing the principles of developmental kinesiology with elastic bands,
- barbells, weights, and gymball
- Discuss & demonstrate DNS exercises for specific sport techniques: throwing, jumping, stroke,
- skating etc.
- Students who want to work towards DNS Trainer certification must pass an online test after DNS
- Exercise course part II, and before taking DNS Exercise course part III.
DNS Trainer Practical Certification Test
This test is the test to become a DNS Certified Trainer.
It is performed at the end of the DNS Exercise Part 3 course.
The test requires you to demonstrate and explain the following functional DNS tests:
- Describe optimal performance of the tests below.
- Identify any stabilization faults on your colleague for the tests below.
- Explain possible causes of the abnormal stereotype for the tests below.
- Diaphragm test in sitting
- Diaphragm test in prone
- ntra-abdominal pressure regulation test in supine
- ntra-abdominal pressure regulation test in sitting
- Head flexion test in supine
- Thoracic extension test
- Quadruped test
- Bear test
- Squat test
Describe Exercises in the following developmental positions:
- 3months supine & modifications
- 3months prone & modifications
- 5months side lying
- 6months supine
- 7.5months oblique sitting with forearm support
- 8months oblique sitting with hand support
- Quadruped exercise – modification for shoulder girdle and arm
- Quadruped exercise – modification for pelvic girdle and leg
- Tripod
- High kneeling
- Bear
- Squat
- Hanging stance
You are required to demonstrate the exercise on your colleague. You should be able to suggest any corrections to perform properly and explain possible modification for progressions. Describe when and why you would use such exercise positions.
Course Fee: : 485 € (+100 € DNS Fee)
Course Language: englisch
Instructor: Jakub Novák, DPT, Ph.D.
Course Date:
Saturday, 23.10.2027, 9:00 – 17:00 Uhr
Sunday, 24.10.2027, 8:30 – 16:00 Uhr
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Jakub NovákJakub Novák interned at Do Dragao, a sports clinic in Portugal for one month before starting his physiotherapy career in Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Clinic, University Hospital Motol in Prague in 2016. He completed his Master’s degree in physiotherapy at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in 2018. He then started teaching physiotherapy and medical students at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in 2018. During that same year, Jakub joined the rehabilitation team at Professor Pavel Kolar’s private Centre of Movement Medicine in Prague (http://www.cpmpk.cz).
In his clinical practice, he meets a wide range of patients from the fields of neurology, orthopedics, and sports medicine. He also collaborates on a long-term basis with many national level athletes in various sports such as track and field, Olympic weightlifting, hockey, floorball or baseball. His treatment approach with professional athletes focuses on optimizing the locomotor system for enhanced sports performance.
Jakub is a certified instructor for “Kolar´s Approach to Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization: A Developmental Kinesiology Model.” He has taught numerous courses both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as in other countries.
Jakub completed his PhD from Charles University, Second Faculty of Medicine in 2022. His research focused on the objective evaluation of the postural function of abdominal muscles and intra-abdominal pressure. He has published several original professional papers on this topic in and most recently, in the internationally peer reviewed rehabilitation journal.He currently works also as a supervisor of Ph.D. students at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, where he deals with the topic of trunk stabilization and collaborates on research in this area with a foreign institution in the USA. He also participates as an active lecturer in scientific conferences.
Being a former top floorball player and skier, Jakub keep himself active, and enjoys spending his free time cycling, cross country skiing, alps skiing or hiking with his wife and daughters.
