The Painful Shoulder, Portugal 2026

IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?

Are you someone who works regularly with people with shoulder pain?
Do you want a practical, evidence-based approach to assessing and treating shoulder pain?
Do you want a bullshit-free course that helps people with shoulder pain with no gadgets or gimmicks?
THEN THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU!!!

COURSE OUTLINE

This course is for ALL who assess, rehab, coach, or train others, regardless of their professional titles or experience, who want a clear, concise, and practical approach to helping people with painful shoulders.

This course is a fun and informative 2-day course that cuts through the crap and unnecessary complexity, and exposes many myths and misunderstandings about painful shoulders.

This course will provide you with an adaptable, patient-centred, evidence-based framework to help all painful shoulder issues in all people, from couch potatoes to professional athletes.

This course will give you more confidence in your assessment and treatment choices for painful shoulder issues.

But this course will NOT give you any bullshit gimmicky quick fixes or magic cures... instead, it will give you simple, honest, realistic, experienced, evidence-based advice to help you help those with painful shoulders.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Simplify the assessment, diagnosis and management of the most commonly encountered shoulder problems.

Expose the myths and misconceptions around shoulder anatomy, biomechanics and pathology.

Show how to best assess and diagnose the most likely causes of shoulder pain.

Discover how to assess strength, power, endurance, and proprioception of the shoulder.

Explore and practice all levels of shoulder rehab and higher level of RTP function.

COURSE FEEDBACK

COURSE LOCATION

Solinica Coimbra, Dom João III Street, No. 59, 3030-324, Coimbra

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COURSE TUTOR

Adam Meakins, is a physiotherapist and S&C coach with over 25 years experience.

He has specialised in the management of painful shoulders for over 15 years and helped professional athletes, weekend warriors, and couch potatoes recover from shoulder pain and injuries.

He is actively involved in research and works both in the UKs NHS as a specialist extended scope physio and in his own private practice.

Adam has gained extended qualifications in trauma and orthopaedic medicine including the use of diagnostic ultrasound scanning and injection therapy.

Adam has been teaching his evidence based, person centred course for over 10 years all across the world to therapists, coaches and rehab professionals of all ages and experiences