Why you need to do the Masterclass
10 Reasons for Graduate Physios Doing Sarah Key’s Masterclasses:
- Get my mojo back with Physiotherapy
- Find better techniques
- Be more confident diagnosing/treating back problems
- Improve my manual skills
- Learn how to use my feet to treat backs
- Some more effective tools in the tool-kit
- Take time with patients and to set my fees accordingly
- Not to groan when ‘another back’ walks through the door
- Understand MRIs and radiology reporting
- Sick of other people (health funds, WCC, corporatised medicine) setting my professional agenda
10 Learning Outcomes from SK Masterclasses
- Refined manual palpation skills, including surface anatomy of lumbar spine and pelvis
- A new appreciation of degrees of freedom of each lumbar segment, including cephalad (decompression)
- Understanding the roles of the IVD, facet joints, global and 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)
- A new understanding of the five stages of breakdown of a lumbar segment
- A new appreciation of central segment mobilisation (spinous process) and facet mobilisation
- The difference in ’feel’ between leathery, rubbery, thickened, tense, bloated
- A simple and effective home treatment regime
- How to run an effective spinal decompression class
- Effectively using the feet to mobilise the lumbar spine and pelvis
10 Testimonial Excerpts
- Why didn’t we learn this as undergrads?
- Sarah is such a passionate and enlightened communicator. It makes sense
I’m really looking forward to getting back home and putting it into practice. - Understanding the sequence breakdown will make it so much easier to explain to patients
- Great to learn from someone with Sarah’s passion 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 Level 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 Level 3 and Level 4 (peripheral joints) Masterclasses
- To attend residential Refresher and Up-skilling Getaways at ‘Fernleigh’ Scone, NSW
- To sell SK products and books in your practice and website
- To join the SK worldwide network and have patients referred
- To ask SK advice/refer difficult patients
- To use single-line drawings from Sarah’s books
- To get updates about Sarah’s new web pages, YouTube channel and downloadable Video library
- After completing Level 3, become an Accredited Specialist of the Sarah Key Method (APSKM)
- To advertise as an APSKM and use logo
- After Level 3, to become an APSKM Tutor
