UNIVERSITIES & HIGHER EDUCATION
Help your students think critically about movement
Support students to connect clinical knowledge with whole-body movement, explore possible explanations and justify their next clinical decision.
Guest lectures, practical workshops and educator sessions shaped around your programme’s learning outcomes.
Discuss your teaching needs
Connect clinical knowledge with movement understanding
Anatomy, biomechanics and clinical assessment provide a foundation. Applying that knowledge to the way an individual moves requires students to weigh up observations, explore alternative explanations and decide what to investigate next.
The From the Feet Up Movement Reasoning Framework™ provides a structured way to make that reasoning visible. It brings the person’s goals, movement, task and context into case discussions, alongside discipline-specific assessment and clinical evidence.
Help students explain their reasoning
OBSERVE WITH PURPOSE
Describe what is happening during a movement task and distinguish an observation from an interpretation.
EXPLORE POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS
Consider how the whole body, the task and the person’s circumstances might contribute to what they see.
JUSTIFY & REVIEW DECISIONS
Explain the purpose of an assessment or intervention, then use reassessment to reconsider the next step.
A framework for teaching movement reasoning
The From the Feet Up Movement Reasoning Framework™ organises discussion around six connected stages. Each stage gives students a question to work through and educators a way to explore their reasoning.
01 Client-Centred Inquiry
What matters to this person, and what are they trying to do?
02 Observe
What is happening during the movement and task?
03 InterpretÂ
What might explain these observations, and what else should we consider?
04 Identify the Driver
Which factor appears most relevant, and how could we test that hypothesis?
05 Select Intervention
What are we trying to influence, and why is this approach appropriate?
06 Reassess
What has changed, and what does that mean for the next step?
NOT A PROTOCOL.  A WAY OF THINKING
TEACHING OPTIONS FOR YOUR PROGRAM
Guest Lectures
Introduce movement reasoning through whole-body examples and guided case discussion.
Practical Workshops
Explore observation and clinical hypotheses through movement tasks, demonstrations and reassessment.
Educator Sessions
Discuss ways to use consistent reasoning prompts within tutorials, practical teaching and placement supervision.
Sessions can be tailored to your students’ stage of learning, your curriculum and the reasoning skills you want to develop.
About Tracy Cooke
Tracy Cooke is a podiatrist, educator and founder of The Stabilisation Academy, with more than 30 years of clinical experience.
Alongside her clinical practice, she lectures and supervises podiatry students at The University of Western Australia.
Her teaching connects movement observation with the reasoning behind clinical decisions.
Bring clearer movement reasoning into your teaching
Tell us about your programme, student group and teaching goals. We can discuss a guest lecture, practical workshop or educator session suited to your learning outcomes.
" MOVEMENT ISN'T RANDOM. IT'S A STRATEGY .  UNDERSTAND IT.  RESPECT IT.  IMPROVE IT. "
TRACY-ANN COOKE | CLINICIAN | EDUCATORÂ
