Date: 7-9 May, 2026

Time: 09:00-13:00、14:00-17:00（GMT：+8）

Teachers: Kit Ao

Venue address: 15/F Lee Kum Kee Central, 54-58 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong

Language: English (Handout will be provided only in English in electronic format)

Prerequisites: None

Tuition:
Early bird price before 22 March 2026: HKD 8,400/person

Original price on and after 24 March 2026: HKD 8,850/person

★ Discount for two persons registering together before 07 April  2026 ★ 
HKD 8,300/person （Payment must be made through the same transaction）

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Course details

The Structural Essential series is a set of intensive soft-tissue technique courses divided into functional regions. Combining movement and manual techniques for the most efficient and long-lasting results, and using the latest research on the interaction between skeleton, muscles, joints, and fascial proprioceptors, this series of workshops will take you to a new level in therapy.

Designed with the busy manual therapist in mind, each Structural Essentials event gives you a new understanding of the relevant area. The content will outline how the structural and functional anatomy relates to many common issues as well as to the rest of the body. Based on many new and established approaches this series will give you the skills in palpation, BodyReading and functional analysis needed for the modern multidisciplinary therapist.

This course focuses on:

• Understanding the structure of the foot and being able to palpate relevant bony landmarks and soft tissue structures
• Understanding the biomechanics of the feet and assessing structurally and functionally
• Assessing good foot and leg support through: the 3 (or 4) arches of the foot, how they act in walking and standing.
• How the lower leg muscles act to support the arches
• BodyRead the various imbalances which can occur
• Unwinding rotational compensations in the foot, the tibia-fibula complex and the knee
• Understanding how to assess and then treat the foot and lower leg and how this can effect
• Build a foundation for Structural Integration work
• Understand the foot and its influence on the rest of the body via the Anatomy Trains
• Give and progressively build on a system vs. symptom-based approach to healing
• Use functional & structural assessments to formulate session strategies
• Apply Fascial Release work based on anatomy and body patterns. Shift from “ technique” to palpation-driven work

The Knee and Thigh – A complicated hinge in the middle of two long levers is perhaps not the best of designs, but this “elbow designed by committee” is an excellent work of engineering. The knee joint mediates forces from the hip and the foot and still allows a wide range of movement in all but the frontal plane.

Objectives

• How to differentiate your analysis of the foot and legs from the rest of the mechanical chain, giving an accurate reading of their skeletal relationships
• How to assess and then provide good foot and leg support through the three (or four) arches of the foot
• How the arches act in walking and standing and their relationship to the pelvis and the AT lines
• How to balance the support the arches receive from the long muscles of the calf
• Effective strategies to unwind rotational compensations in the foot, the tibia-fibula complex and the knee.
• Learn how the structures of the knee and thigh co-operate to achieve this and learn to recognize some of the structural dysfunctions that can occur.
• BodyRead the various imbalances which can occur
• Learn to balance the common rotational movements of the knee

Notes:

1. After registration, we will notify the applicants of their acceptance status via email at a later time. If accepted, the applicant must pay the fees as outlined in the reply email via bank transfer/remittance and provide the transfer/remittance receipt to be officially enrolled. Those who fail to make the payment and upload the receipt within the deadline will be deemed to have forfeited their application, without further notification.

2. We may cancel the course due to insufficient enrollment numbers, and will refund the fees to those applicants who have already paid. If the applicant is unable to attend for personal reasons, the fees paid will not be refunded.

3. We reserve the final decision rights in case of any disputes, and the decision will be final and binding.