The human body is at its functional best when we balance 4 crucial forces in our lives – our diet, our movement, our rest and our happiness.

The Functional Health Coach undergoes extensive training in the musculoskeletal aspects of working with clients including CHEK advanced assessments and exercise prescription. They are also skilled in the use of powerful assessment tools such as the Nutrition and Lifestyle Questionnaire that enables them to develop a clear picture of where their client is out of balance, determine how those imbalances are affecting their client, and create a truly holistic program that effectively returns their client to their optimal balance.

“The pain usually isn’t where the problem is.” – Paul Chek

The human body-mind is a collection of integrated systems – the central nervous system, the musculoskeletal system, and the digestive system, for example, are all integrated into one-another a number of ways. Thus, damage or dysfunction in one system can create problems in another.

The Integrated Health Coach is trained to see the relationships between our systems, is skilled at tracing injury or illness back to its true source, and has mastered program design techniques that focus on unwinding the deep causes of their clients’ challenges.

When CHEK Students reach this milestone, they have an incredibly in-depth knowledge of functional anatomy but have also begun to dive deep into the mental-emotional causes of our health challenges.

The Rehabilitation Specialist has been trained to see the behavioral archetypes that underlie all of our choices – they know how common beliefs, habits, and choices lead to illness and injury, and how best to communicate with and motivate each archetype.

This combination of physical and mental-emotional training makes CHEK Practitioner Level 3’s extremely skilled at rehabilitating even the most challenging clients from illness and injury.

CHEK Students who reach this level of training are well on their way to mastering the full CHEK Totem Pole – Paul Chek’s system for understanding the top-down relationship between the human mind-body’s control systems.

On a practical level, this means the CHEK Practitioner Level 4 has a powerful system to assess how, for example, our beliefs can affect the function of our organs, how our breathing can affect the sacrum, or how complex issues of mastication can affect our cervical vertebra.

Combine this with advanced coaching techniques and the CHEK Practitioner Level 4 is well suited to work in a Clinical environment.

This is it – mastery of the full range of Paul Chek’s techniques!

There are very, very few health practitioners out there who have this depth and breadth of knowledge outside of the CHEK education system!

This level of training has enabled Paul to rehabilitate clients labeled “Medical Failures” – clients that other doctors and specialists have repeatedly failed to help.

Master CHEK Practitioners understand and use the CHEK Totem Pole to its fullest extent and are able to see health challenges from a physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual perspective. It is this depth of perspective that enables them to coach “Medical Failures” to success.

CHEK Practitioner Level 5’s are world class Holistic Health Practitioners.