Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome! Course Overview and Preparation for First Week

  • 2

    Week One class recordings

    • Week 1 - Monday, February Cohort B

    • Week 1 - Wednesday, February Cohort B

    • Week 1 - Friday, February Cohort B
  • 3

    Week One supplemental materials

    • Weeks 1 and 2 Anatomy Lesson - neck and thorax

    • Session 1 practitioner notes, with session summaries

    • Client handouts -- Neck mobility (this file holds all three client handouts)

    • Session 1 Client handout -- vagus nerve stretch

    • Session 1 Client handout -- tight traps and scalenes

    • Session 1 Client handout -- upper thoracic restriction

    • Demonstration: Nicole Session 1

    • 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

    • Session 2 Notes -- Thoracic Mobility (2020-07-13)

    • Session 2 Client handout -- Thoracic Mobility Session

    • illustrations of intercostal contact points

    • Nicole Session 2 -- full thoracic protocol, working all the intercostal spaces, but no use of ball for spinal erectors

    • 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.

    • Demo - introducing using the ball against the wall for end of session 2

    • Nicole Session 5 (watch in Week 2, so that you can see what spot work in the thorax looks like)

    • Tiger Stripes article - manual work for intercostal spaces (not necessary to read this week, but interesting to check out at some point)

    • Technique - freeing the subtrapezial plexus

    • Technique - supraclavicular nerve

    • Anatomy - brachial plexus nerves and circumflex humeral artery

    • Anatomy and Technique Review - handholds for radial, brachial musculocutaneous, and axillary nerves, with additional tips regarding median and ulnar nerves
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    Week Two class recordings

    • Week 2 -Monday, February Cohort B

    • Week 2 - Wednesday, Cohort B

    • Week 2 - Friday, February, Cohort B
  • 6

    Bonus lessons

    • Technique - vagus nerve to stomach (from November Cohort A class on 2020-11-20)
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    Week Three supplemental materials

    • Session 3 notes - working with ball on floor, client notes

    • Session 3 notes - working with ball against wall, client notes
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    Week Three class recordings

    • Week 3 - Monday, February Cohort B

    • Week 3 - Wednesday, February Cohort B

    • Week 3 - Friday, February Cohort B
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    Week Four supplemental materials

    • Week 4 -- anatomy, perforating arteries supplying hamstrings (plus how to share your view of the Complete Anatomy App on Zoom)

    • Practitioner Notes - Thigh Session

    • Practitioner Notes - Balancing the Jaw
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    Week Four class recordings

    • Week 4 - Monday, February Cohort B

    • Week 4 - Wednesday, February Cohort B

    • Week 4 - Friday, February Cohort B
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    Bonus resources

    • 2020 "Fascia and the Circulatory System" (book chapter in Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications)