Lower Limb Biomechanics Course (Online plus 2-Day Practical Workshop)

You’ll learn a clear, practical, plain-English method for understanding how specific lower limb malalignments (e.g., forefoot varus/valgus) drive real-world injury patterns, then how to treat them with exercise, chairside insoles, and orthotics.

  1. Guaranteed to boost your confidence in lower limb biomechanics
  2.  Designed for clinicians who want clarity and clinic-ready tools
  3.  Walk away able to explain injury mechanisms to patients simply and convincingly
  • Reserve your place (18–19 April 2026)
  • Start the online training now
  • Download the course overview

Who this course is for

This course is ideal for:

  • Podiatrists/student podiatrists
  • Physiotherapists, sports therapists, osteopaths
  • MSK clinicians who assess and treat lower limb pain
  • Anyone who wants biomechanics explained clearly and applied confidently

If you’ve been taught conflicting models, confusing theories, or “biomechanics speak” that doesn’t translate to practice, this course simplifies it.

What You’ll Be Able To Do After the Course

By the end, you’ll confidently:

  • Identify the key mechanical drivers behind foot, ankle, knee, hip, and lower back pain
  • Understand how forefoot and rearfoot varus, valgus, and other malalignments influence loading and injury
  • Link movement patterns → tissue overload → symptoms (without the waffle)
  • Choose the right exercise rehab to reduce strain and restore function
  • Prescribe chairside insoles that make sense (and know when you need orthotics)
  • Communicate biomechanics in plain English so that patients actually understand
  • Build a consistent approach you can repeat across cases

The Big Promise

Biomechanically induced pain explained, without theories.

You’ll be walked through what causes what and what to do about it, step by step. No endless debates. No conflicting frameworks. Just practical biomechanics you can apply on Monday morning.
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What You’ll Learn (Course Content)

1) The Step-by-Step Biomechanics Framework

  • A simple clinical method to make sense of lower limb mechanics
  • What matters, what doesn’t, and why
  • How to stop guessing and start reasoning

2) Link malalignment to Injury: What Actually Happens

  • Forefoot and rearfoot varus/valgus: what it changes and why it matters
  • How malalignment alters loading and compensation
  • Linking “what you see” to “what it causes”

3) Pain Patterns Without the Jargon

We’ll break down the biomechanics behind:

  • Foot and ankle pain (including overload and instability patterns)
  • Knee pain (including common overuse patterns)
  • Hip pain (load transfer and compensation)
  • Lower back pain (the lower limb link clinicians often miss)

4) Management That Works in the Real World

  • Exercise selection that targets the right mechanical driver
  • Chairside insoles: how to choose and fit confidently
  • When to progress to orthotics (and how to justify it clinically)

Enhance your understanding in gait analysis and orthotic management

One to one training available

The lower limb biomechanics course is evidence based and designed to be an informative CPD update for MSK practitioners, whist also meeting the needs of less experienced practitioners wanting to working in the field of biomechanics.


What will I learn?

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the lower limb biomechanics course you will: 

  • Have knowledge of the validity and reliability of the most common used theories (STJ neutral, Tissue stress, Windlass mechanism, and Sagittal plane facilitation) in podiatric biomechanics 
  • Understand the implications of the efficiency in the use of common theories in the assessment and orthotic management of lower limb disorders. 
  • Understand the importance of a dynamic assessment of the lower limb 
  • Understand the importance of muscle function and an integrated approach in the assessment of the lower limb. 
  • Understand the term ‘pronation’, as a symptom or the end product of a variety of lower limb alignments rather than a diagnosis. 
  • Understand the function of the foot and how it may lead to a range of lower limb and back disorders. 
  • Have knowledge of clinical symptoms associated with specific lower limb alignments. 
  •  Have knowledge of appropriate correction with in the orthotic to address each foot type.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the effects of different orthotic material density on foot function. 
  • Understanding of the choice of material for optimum function of the orthotics.
  • Understanding of the appropriate posting for optimum correction.
  • Understanding of the effect of orthotics on frontal and transverse plan motion.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the modification of orthotics to allow the first ray and MTPj to function optimally. 




Embark on a journey to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills in lower limb biomechanics and orthotic management

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Lower limb biomechanics online course

Benjamin Wondra

This class was very helpful in supplementing my understanding of biomechanics of the lower limb

This class was very helpful in supplementing my understanding of biomechanics of the lower limb

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Course Format

Online Training (Self-paced)

  • Clear, structured lessons you can revisit any time
  • Designed to build understanding before the practical
  • Ideal for busy clinicians

2-Day Practical Training (Hands-on)

18–19 April 2026

  • Practical assessment skills you can replicate in clinic
  • Real clinical reasoning and case-based learning
  • Insoles/orthotic decision-making in practice
  • Q&A and troubleshooting of real-world cases

Why This Course Is Different

  1. No-nonsense teaching: simple, logical, clinically useful
  2. No theories: biomechanics explained through cause → effect → solution
  3. Plain English: confidence rises when confusion drops
  4. Designed for clinic: exercises - chairside insoles - orthotics pathway
  5. Confidence guarantee: you’ll leave knowing what to do and why

Instructor(s)

Principle Lecture Steve Bailey

Steve Bailey is an experienced clinician, educator and researcher in medical acupuncture and musculoskeletal (MSK) medicine, with a career spanning private practice, postgraduate teaching and healthcare CPD delivery. He holds an MSc in Acupuncture, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, and an MSc in lower limb biomechanics. Steve previously served as Director of BP Orthotics LTD, where the company supplied orthotic devices to both NHS and private practitioners and offered comprehensive training in lower limb biomechanics, prescription writing, and orthotics management. He currently operates a successful clinical practice in Nottingham, providing podiatry, physiotherapy, and acupuncture services. His areas of expertise include sports injuries, lower limb biomechanics, low back and lower limb disorders, as well as the application of acupuncture to enhance athletic performance and recovery. As an educator, Steve is the founder of Steve Bailey Acupuncture CPD Training, providing online and face-to-face international training in medical acupuncture for healthcare professionals. He has also taught on postgraduate programmes at Coventry University and previously delivered foundation and advanced acupuncture training for the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP). Steve’s teaching is strongly evidence-based and clinically applied, emphasising safe practice, clinical reasoning, point selection, needling technique, electroacupuncture, and outcome-driven treatment planning. He is widely published in sports and MSK acupuncture, including systematic reviews and clinically focused papers, and has delivered keynote and conference presentations on acupuncture and performance-related topics.

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • A repeatable clinical biomechanics system
  • A clearer rationale for injury cause and treatment choice
  • Stronger patient trust and better adherence (“that finally makes sense…”)
  • Greater confidence in:

- assessing malalignment

- explaining pain mechanisms

- selecting interventions


FAQ

  • Do I need prior biomechanics knowledge?

    No. This is built to be step-by-step and clinician-friendly.

  • Is the course suitable for students?

    Yes, especially if you want biomechanics explained clearly and applied to real injuries.

  • What if I only want the online course?

    You can start online immediately. The practical workshop is where your assessment and application become second nature.

  • Will we cover chairside insoles and orthotics?

    Yes, how to use chairside insoles confidently, and when/why to progress to orthotics.