About the Course
This Masterclass has grown organically over time — shaped by critical reflection on gaps in sports science and informed in part by Frederic’s own research into the true origins of athletic injuries.
Every professional involved in sports care and athlete support knows the frustration that follows a non-contact (re)injury: What did we overlook?
Non-contact injuries in sport rarely occur by chance or simply because of a lack of ’stability‘. They are often the parietal end point of both visible and invisible causal factors. As Dutch sports scientist Olaf Versloot (FC Ajax Amsterdam) once aptly noted: “You can only prevent what you yourself know and understand.”
By 2026, the call for a holistic approach to (recurrent) injuries in sports science and the academic literature is louder than ever.
Non-contact injuries begin as functional problems, yet osteopathy — a functional approach to medicine — is not always the first choice for many stakeholders.
Yet, despite a growing intention, the foundational knowledge required to effectively implement such a perspective is often missing.
Professional osteopaths, however, are holistically trained to bridge precisely this gap and are increasingly becoming a crucial link and coordinator in meaningful injury prevention — from elite athletes to everyday recreational sports participants. Staying up to date is therefore not a luxury, but a professional imperative.
What will you learn?
In this theory-informed practical module, you will revisit and expand your existing osteopathic conceptual framework with new insights into parietal injury mechanisms originating from cranial, neurological, and visceral sources.
By examining non-contact injuries from a physiological and refreshed perspective and by working “from cause to solution,” Frederic illustrates how new insights can be effectively learned and directly applied in practice.
The course introduces five commonly found — and lesser-known — risk factors in non-contact sports injuries, including their underlying mechanisms and methods for clinical testing. These are causes you won’t find in textbooks or in the scientific Meeuwisse injury model, such as:
- local traumatic leftovers
- certain neurological weaknesses
- cranial contributions
- viscero-somatic “conflicts of interest”
Instead of offering treatment recipes, this Masterclass focuses on developing your own clinical reasoning — teaching practitioners how to think and test effectively.
This three-day Masterclass provides immediately applicable concepts and techniques, both for sideline use and everyday clinical practice.
It combines roughly 60% theory with 40% hands-on testing, all with one clear goal:
to make every participant a better sportspractitioner, identifying and defusing non-contact (re)injury risks in sports.
Curriculum
Day 1: Introduction + consultation model + undetected conditions 1 + practice
Day 2: Undetected conditions 2 and 3 + theory & practice
Day 3: Undetected conditions 4 and 5 + theory & practice
Daily schedule
| 09:00 – 10:30 |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Lesson |
| 12:30 – 13:30 |
Break |
| 13:30 – 15:00 |
Lesson |
| 15:00 – 15:30 |
Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 |
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