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10 Reasons for Graduate Physios Doing Sarah Key’s Masterclasses:
- Getting my mojo back for treating backs
- Finding different/better/more effective treatment techniques & exercises
- Being more confident with clinical reasoning, diagnosing and treating back problems
- Improving my hands-on manual skills and exercise prescription
- Learning how to safely and effectively use my feet to treat backs
- Taking time with patients and to setting my fees accordingly
- Not groaning when another bad back walks through the door
- Understanding the relevance of MRIs and radiology reporting
- Not allowing others (health funds, WCC, corporatised medicine) to set my professional agenda
- Becoming part of the SK treatment community and benefiting from social media connections
10 Learning Outcomes from SK Problem Back Masterclasses:
- Refined manual palpation skills, including surface anatomy of lumbar, thoracic and cervical spines
- A new appreciation of degrees of freedom of each spinal segment, including cephalad (decompression)
- Understanding the roles of the IVD, facet joints, global/local spinal muscles, the 3 abdominal muscle layers, the posterior ligamentous lock
- The significance between sustained spinal compression (catabolic) and on-off spinal loading (anabolic) with intervertebral disc health
- A new understanding of the 5 stages of breakdown of a spinal segment
- A new appreciation of central segment mobilisation (spinous process) and facet mobilisation
- The difference in ’feel’ between leathery, rubbery, thickened, brittle, tense, corroded bolts, bloated, soupy
- Simple and effective self-treatment regimes for patients to do themselves
- How to run a compelling and effective spinal decompression class
- Confidently and safely using the feet to mobilise vertebrae, ribs and pelvis
10 Testimonial Excerpts:
- Why didn’t we learn this as undergraduates?
- I was at the point of giving up Physiotherapy until I did this course!
- I can’t wait to get back home and start using this
- Understanding the sequence breakdown makes it soooo much easier to explain to patients
- Great to learn from someone with Sarah’s clarity and experience
- I’ll definitely be using my feet
- To be in such an intimate learning experience with ‘the master’ was a real privilege
- I used my Dad as a guinea-pig last night and he was stoked
- I can’t wait for Levels 2 and 3!
- We didn’t want to leave at the end of the course, but Sarah got out the vacuum cleaner!
10 Types of Value Adding from the Sarah Key Courses:
- To complete SKMC Levels 2, 3
- Continue to peripheral joints in SKMC Level 4
- To become an Accredited Practitioner (and tutor) of The Sarah Key Method (APSKM)
- Annual ‘Summer Up-Skilling Days With Sarah’ to learn what’s new
- ‘Refresher Up-Skilling’ weekend information exchanges with like-minded physios
- To refer difficult cases to Practical Adjuncts in vivo treatment sessions with Sarah
- To use Sarah’s books, websites and Substack platform to help with your patients
- To use Sarah’s material (drawings/graphics) to teach in-service ‘mini masterclasses’ at your place of work
- To use Sarah’s material to to run community information sessions on back care
- Research projects say, pain score, height changes, disc hydration (MRI), chest expansion, tidal volume after using BackBlock
