Course curriculum
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Welcome! Course Overview and Preparation for First Week
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Introduction to course and an invitation to ask questions on a get-to-know-you Zoom call (for practitioners considering the course, and for registered participants!)
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Managing your calendar
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Zoom Links and Class Times
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Weekly Flow of this Course
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Course objectives, syllabus (course outline), optional quizzes, and continuing education credit
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Recommended books and anatomy app
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Invite and schedule friends and clients to an introductory neck mobility session or a four-session series
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Sample email to clients, inviting them to schedule a three-session series or a free intro session
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Demonstration: Marilyn Session 1 (short session)
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Insurance source for practitioners in the USA for teaching clients online
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Week One supplemental materials
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Weeks 1 and 2 Anatomy Lesson - neck and thorax
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Session 1 practitioner notes, with session summaries
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Client handouts -- Neck mobility (this file holds all three client handouts)
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Session 1 Client handout -- vagus nerve stretch
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Session 1 Client handout -- tight traps and scalenes
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Session 1 Client handout -- upper thoracic restriction
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Demonstration: Nicole Session 1
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Session 1 Techniques, demonstrated with less info (for efficient review)
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Week 1- Brachial plexus anatomy and techniques (compilation from August Cohorts A and B)
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Week 1 - Anatomy and strategy for working with client who is getting dizzy and has a slipped disc history (Excerpt from Week 1 - Wednesday, November Cohort A) --Look below video for an article on the carotid sinus.
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Week Two supplemental materials
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Session 2 Notes -- Thoracic Mobility (2020-07-13)
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Session 2 Client handout -- Thoracic Mobility Session
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illustrations of intercostal contact points
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Nicole Session 2 -- full thoracic protocol, working all the intercostal spaces, but no use of ball for spinal erectors
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Demo of using a ball while lying on a yoga mat (in case you need it at the end of the seated thorax work). This is spot work, just a preview of what we will be doing more of in Session 3. Watch this before you watch Nicole's Session 5.
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Demo - introducing using the ball against the wall for end of session 2
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Nicole Session 5 (watch in Week 2, so that you can see what spot work in the thorax looks like)
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Tiger Stripes article - manual work for intercostal spaces (not necessary to read this week, but interesting to check out at some point)
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Technique - freeing the subtrapezial plexus
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Technique - supraclavicular nerve
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Anatomy - brachial plexus nerves and circumflex humeral artery
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Anatomy and Technique Review - handholds for radial, brachial musculocutaneous, and axillary nerves, with additional tips regarding median and ulnar nerves
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Bonus lessons
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Technique - vagus nerve to stomach (from November Cohort A class on 2020-11-20)
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Week Three supplemental materials
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Session 3 notes - working with ball on floor, client notes
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Session 3 notes - working with ball against wall, client notes
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Week Four supplemental materials
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Week 4 -- anatomy, perforating arteries supplying hamstrings (plus how to share your view of the Complete Anatomy App on Zoom)
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Bonus resources
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2020 "Fascia and the Circulatory System" (book chapter in Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications)
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