CONTENT Guide for Sarah Key COURSES

  • Sarah Key Treating a Patient with ebow
  • How the foot can be used in Spinal Manipulation
Level 1 SKMCs Online Webinars

Lecture 1: ‘Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Lumbar Spine’
Lecture 2: ‘The Stiff Spinal Segment’
Lecture 3: ‘Facet Joint Arthropathy’
Lecture 4: ‘The Importance of Spinal Decompression’

(Allow 8-10 hours)

Content of Level 1 Practical Adjunct
  1. Group presentations: summaries of Level 1 webinars
  2. Fine-tuning hands-on skills of the lumbar spine
  3. Sarah palpates participants first and group practise in alternating pairs
  4. Demonstration of the techniques using the heel
  5. Sarah shows the first basics of using the heel.
  6. Participants Individually taught to use the heel and practise in pairs
  7. In vivo patient being assessed and treated By Sarah
    • History taking
    • Clinical examination
    • Scans reviewed
    • Sarah’s diagnosis and clinical reasoning
    • Treatment by Sarah
  8. Dictating an audio-summary using iPhone
  9. A Spinal Decompression class using the BackBlock
Level 2 SKMCs Online Webinars

Lecture 5: ‘Acute Locked Back’
Lecture 6: ‘The Prolapsed Intervertebral Disc’
Lecture 7: ‘The Unstable Spinal Segment’
Lecture 8: ‘To Bend or Not to Bend’
Lecture 9: ‘The Trouble with Sitting’

(Allow 10-12 hours)

Content of Level 2 Practical Adjunct
  1. Group presentations of The 5 Stages of Breakdown
  2. Treatment protocols for the 5 Stages of Breakdown both acute and chronic conditions – the signs and symptoms, clinical picture, palpation, mobilization and home self-treatment regime
  3. Proper Bending
  4. Sitting
  5. In vivo patient being assessed and treated By Sarah
    • History taking
    • Clinical examination
    • Scans reviewed
    • Sarah’s diagnosis and clinical reasoning
    • Treatment by Sarah
  6. Students practise using the heel on the lumbar spine – each student taught individually. Practise in pairs over several sessions
  7. Other lumbar spine mobilising and decompression techniques
  8. Other mobilisation techniques in a class
Level 3 SKMCs Online Webinars

Lecture 10: ‘Posture and Leg Length’
Lecture 11:’A New Perspective on Lifting’
Lecture 12: ‘Muscle Spasm: The Wild Card’
Lecture 13: ‘Understanding and Treating Crisis Situations, Common Conditions and Congenital Disorders’ (scoliosis, stenosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbarisation, sacralisation, failed back surgery syndrome)

(Allow 10-12 hours)

Content of Level 3 Practical Adjunct
  1. Fine-tuning cervical & thoracic spine palpation (Sarah palpates each participant’s neck & thorax)
  2. Hands-on mobilising the neck from the front
  3. Demonstration of techniques using the heel on thoracic spine and ribs
  4. Each participant experiences what it’s like with Sarah using heel
  5. In vivo patient assessment and treatment of cervical spine/thorax
    • History taking
    • Clinical examination
    • Vertebral artery testing
    • Scans reviewed
    • Sarah’s diagnosis and clinical reasoning
    • Treatment by Sarah
  6. Thoracic spine decompression using the BackBlock
  7. Mobilisation self-treatment techniques for cervical and thoracic Spine
  8. Questions and discussion about treating necks and backs: The content of webinars reviewed

THE HEALER WITHIN SERIES: 1 NECK TREATMENT

SECTION 1 The Way The Neck Works Normally

Lecture 1.1 The Anatomy of The Neck
Lecture 1.2 The Cervical Spine – Bottleneck To Wider Health
Lecture 1.3 Posture and Surface Anatomy of The Neck
Lecture 1.4 Bony Anatomy of The JOinted Column
Lecture 1.5 Typical Ranges of Motion of Neck Movements

SECTION 2 Mobilising Pressures For The Neck (Therapist)

Lecture 2.1 PA Pressures of The Spine Model
Lecture 2.2 PA Pressures on The Living Neck
Lecture 2.3 Unilateral Pressures on The Spine Model (prone)
Lecture 2.4 Unilateral Pressures on The Spine Model (supine)
Lecture 2.5 Unilateral Pressures of The Living Neck (prone)
Lecture 2.6 Facet Pressures in Rotation on Model (supine)
Lecture 2.7 Facet Pressures in Rotation Living Neck (supine)
Lecture 2.8 Cervical Traction on Spine Model
Lecture 2.9 Cervical Traction on Living Neck

SECTION 3 Mobilising Pressures for the Neck (Patient)

3.1 PA Pressures on The Living Neck
3.2 Transverse Pressures on The Living Neck
3.3 Anterior Pressures to Transverse Processes Living Neck
3.4 Facet Pressures to The Living Neck (prone)
3.5 Facet Pressures in Rotation to The Living Neck (supine)
3.6 Self Traction
3.7 Showing the Padded Bottle on the Model Spine
3.8 Neck Mobilisation With The Padded Bottle

SECTION 4 Exercises For The Neck

4.1 The Thoracic BackBlock
4.2 Up-The-Wall Bridging
4.3 The Swastika
4.4 The Sideways Neck Stretch in a Chair
4.5 The Chair Twists
4.6 Crown Rolling


(Allow 4-5 hours)

THE HEALER WITHIN SERIES ARE WEBINARS ONLY

THE HEALER WITHIN SERIES: 2 THORACIC SPINE TREATMENT

SECTION 1. The Anatomy of The Thoracic Spine and Ribs
SECTION 2. A Closer Look at Thoracic Spine Dysfunction
SECTION 3. Thoracic Spine Mobilisation Techniques on The Spine Model
SECTION 4. Thoracic Spine Mobilisation Techniques on The Living Back
SECTION 5. A Case Study

(Allow 10-12 hours)