You can’t understand spinal pain without understanding the spine.
Learn how spinal evolution, embryology, and biomechanics influence spinal health, movement, and injury.
Many approaches to spinal health focus only on symptoms rather than how the spine actually functions. In this course, Matthew Wallden explores the evolutionary, embryological, and biomechanical influences shaping spinal health — giving you a clearer framework for both rehabilitation and performance conditioning.
12 Video Lessons · 4+ Hours of Training · Digital Manual
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Most approaches to spinal pain never explain the system behind it.
The spine is too often reduced to symptoms and structures
Many professionals are taught to focus on painful areas, isolated tissues, or diagnostic labels without first understanding how the spine functions as part of a larger system.
Research alone does not always clarify real-world spinal function
Current discussions around spinal pain, core stability, and rehabilitation are often fragmented, controversial, or disconnected from what practitioners actually need to help people move and function better.
The spine is influenced by more than biomechanics alone
Spinal health is shaped by neurophysiology, repetitive loading, lifestyle factors, allostatic load, and emotional influences, yet many approaches fail to integrate these realities.
What practitioners need is a more complete framework
Spinal Structures & Function helps you understand how the spine evolved, how it functions, what commonly goes wrong, and how to apply more effective conditioning and rehabilitation principles.
What You'll Learn
Evolution and embryology of the spine
Understand how the spine developed and why that matters for movement, injury, and function today.
Common spinal conditions
Explore 8 common spinal conditions and understand the key principles for working with them more effectively.
Functional models for spinal understanding
Learn the core concepts and models that help make spinal function easier to understand in real practice.
Allostatic load and spinal health
Understand how stress load influences predisposition to spinal injury and return to function.
Core stability in context
Explore why core stability has been criticized, why it still matters, and when to apply it appropriately.
Phase Progressions and CHEK conditioning
Learn how to apply the Phase Progressions model and CHEK Success Formula to spinal rehabilitation and conditioning.
Who This Course Is For
Coaches and Trainers
Build a deeper understanding of spinal function so you can coach movement, conditioning, and performance more effectively.
Therapists and Rehabilitation Professionals
Strengthen your ability to understand spinal conditions and apply more integrated conditioning principles.
CHEK Students and Practitioners
Complete an important prerequisite course supporting progression into IMS 3.
People Who Want a Healthier, Stronger Spine
Learn how the spine works so you can move better, reduce pain, and build strength safely.
Why the CHEK Approach Is Different
Holistic understanding
This course looks beyond anatomy alone to explore how biomechanics, neurophysiology, lifestyle factors, and emotional influences shape spinal function.
Real-world context
Instead of relying on isolated data points, the CHEK approach helps you understand spinal health as it actually shows up in real people.
Practical transfer
The course is designed to help you move from theory into usable principles for rehabilitation, conditioning, and performance support.
Structured framework
You'll gain a clearer system for understanding spinal conditions, functional models, and how to improve spinal health over time.
What's Inside the Course
HD Video Lessons
Focused instruction covering spinal evolution, embryology, biomechanics, common conditions, and conditioning principles.
Digital Course Manual
A comprehensive manual supporting the video lessons and key concepts.
Hours of Training
Detailed education designed to deepen your understanding of spinal health and functional application.
Online Exam and Completion Flow
Complete the learning process and confirm your understanding.
Real results from real graduates.
A Key Step Toward Advanced CHEK Training
Spinal Structures & Function is not just a standalone course — it is also a prerequisite for progression into IMS 3.
This course strengthens your understanding of spinal health, functional conditioning, and integrated movement mechanics while also preparing you for deeper study inside the CHEK education pathway.
For professionals progressing through the CHEK system, Spinal Structures & Function provides an important foundation for more advanced corrective exercise, conditioning, and performance-based learning in IMS 3.
Course Details
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Build a deeper understanding of spinal function
If you want to understand spinal health more completely and apply more effective conditioning and rehabilitation principles, Spinal Structures & Function gives you the framework to do it.
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