Stability, Sport and Performance Movement

Joanne Elphinston is a performance consultant, international lecturer, and physiotherapist working with elite and professional athletes, including medalists in Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and World Championships; Premiership footballers; and professional golfers. Elphinston has served as a performance movement consultant for the British Olympic Association and has advised professional sporting organizations on technical movement enhancement for performance, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. She also has extensive experience in child and adolescent movement development for sports and progression into senior competition. With author Paul Pook, she cowrote the best-selling book The Core Workout.

Part I. Foundations and Fundamentals
Chapter 1. Force, Flow and Functional Force Management
Chapter 2. Exploring the Stability Concept
Chapter 3. The Anatomy of Stability
Chapter 4. Key Concept for Efficient Movement
Chapter 5. Functional Assessment

Part II. Developing Fluent Control
Chapter 6. Phase 1 – Activation and Awareness
Chapter 7. Phase 2 – Integration
Chapter 8. Phase 3 – Global Coordination
Chapter 9. Phase 4 – Dynamic Control
Chapter 10. Stability Across the Training Programme
Chapter 11. Sample Programmes
Chapter 12. Rehabilitation Pathways

Appendix 1. Commonly Used Terms
Appendix 2. List of Common Patterns
Appendix 3. Scoring Charts of the Capsule Functional Assessment