Most physical therapists don’t get enough “late stage” rehabilitation education and guidance on progressing high-level/high demand patients and/or athletes. Physical therapy graduate programs prepare students to be a “generalist.” The average clinician needs advanced education if they’re seeing more high level patients/athletes. This one-day course will discuss screening and testing for the upper and lower extremity athlete, discuss best practices for strength and conditioning, and provide a framework for progressing athletes safely back to sports activities and to the weight room. This course is ideal for the novice clinician as well as for the more seasoned clinician with limited experience or confidence in treating the advanced athlete. The focus of the course is ensuring the clinician understands how to progress the higher-level patient/client/athlete safely but at the same time, adequately prepare them for return to sport.