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Why You Need To Do A Masterclass

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

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 (segmental 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) on disc health
A new understanding of the 5 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, corroded bolts, tense, bloated, soupy
Simple and effective self-treatment regimes for patients to do themselves
How to run a compelling and effective spinal decompression class
Safely and effectively using the feet to mobilise the lumbar spine and pelvis

Why didn’t we learn this as undergraduates?
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!

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)
To learn what's new at 'Sarah's Annual Summer Up-Skilling Days'
‘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