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A physiotherapist who qualified in 2012, an osteopath D.O and the holder of two university diplomas, in strength and conditioning and in sport and health. Head of performance for a downhill mountain bike team on the World Cup circuit, he co-runs a multidisciplinary centre for athletes in Marseille.
2012
French State Diploma in Physiotherapy, IFMK Saint-Michel in Saint-Étienne
2015
Osteopathy diploma (D.O), IFSO Vichy
Since 2016
Head of performance for a downhill mountain bike team on the World Cup circuit
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Medical teams he currently works with, at events and sports organisations
Rugby, football, athletics, contemporary dance, downhill mountain biking, volleyball, sailing: he has worked with athletes in disciplines that have almost nothing in common. That is exactly what interests him — what, in the return to sport, does not depend on the sport.
2012 · Initial training
IFMK Saint-Michel, in Saint-Étienne.
2015 · Extended training
IFSO Vichy.
2017, then 2019 · University
Strength and conditioning at the Centre d'expertise de la performance Gilles Cometti, in Dijon, then sport, motor function and health at the Université Savoie Mont-Blanc.
Since 2016 · Elite sport
Downhill mountain biking — including a world championship runner-up and a junior world champion — boxing, BMX cycling and freestyle skiing on the international circuits.
Since 2016 · Elite sport
A downhill mountain bike team on the World Cup circuit since 2016, a women's elite volleyball team since 2019, the Marseille international athletics meeting and the Provence athletics centre since 2019, and the Fédération française de voile, the French sailing federation, since 2022.
Since 2017 · Entrepreneurship
A strength and conditioning company in 2017, then in 2019 a multidisciplinary care centre for professional and amateur athletes, in Marseille.
Since 2020 · Teaching
Performance optimisation and strength and conditioning.
Endurance and precision sports: road races and trail running in the Rhône-Alpes region, athletics, beach volleyball, sailing — six medical team roles under way.
Team sports: National 3 football, a rugby academy, and work with Rugby Club Toulonnais.
Professional dance: support for a contemporary dance company, then for a professional company in the United States.
Continuing education: Clinique du coureur, the McKenzie A to C programme, lower limb tendinopathy with Jill Cook and Peter Malliaras, anterior cruciate ligament and return-to-play testing, concussion, neurological disorders in musculoskeletal practice.
4,75/5 · 100 % of the 12 participants recommend this course (post-course survey)
The return to sport approached from all three angles: assess, interpret, decide. A course he co-delivers with Quentin Bouillard, built on what each of them encounters with players and athletes.
Discover the courseA really concrete course. I used to struggle to back my return-to-sport decisions with objective data, and I am leaving with a real assessment framework, useful tests and, above all, a clear logic for progressing without skipping steps.
A very good balance between the literature, the field and real cases. The two instructors complement each other really well. I particularly liked the whole part on progression criteria and decision-making at the end of rehabilitation.
At last, a return-to-sport course that does not stay vague. You see how to build clean reasoning, how to talk to the patient and how to adapt to the profile, the sport and the context. Very applicable from Monday morning.
Adrien Blachère is a physiotherapist who qualified in 2012, an osteopath D.O since 2015 and the holder of a university diploma in strength and conditioning and another in sport, motor function and health. He is head of performance for a downhill mountain bike team on the World Cup circuit and co-runs a multidisciplinary centre for athletes in Marseille.
He co-delivers Return to sport, performance and prevention with Quentin Bouillard. The programme, the duration and the price are shown on the course page.
No. The course starts from assessment and from the interpretation of tests, tools that are used in the clinic. Our other courses in this field are gathered on the sports physiotherapy page.
Downhill mountain biking on the World Cup circuit, BMX, freestyle skiing, boxing, volleyball, athletics, sailing, beach volleyball, rugby, football and professional dance — a range that feeds his teaching on what stays common to every return to sport.
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