This course is designed to help you think critically about two commonly used treatment frameworks: Sahrmann’s Movement System Impairment approach and the McKenzie Method. Rather than teaching you what to think, we’ll focus on how to evaluate each approach, where they overlap, where they differ, and when each may—or may not—fit the patient in front of you.

Using real-world patient scenarios, we’ll walk through how each philosophy might interpret the same presentation, guide assessment, and influence treatment decisions. The goal is not to pick a “winner,” but to sharpen your clinical reasoning so you can apply principles intentionally instead of defaulting to a label.