Long term impact of preterm birth with Kok Weng Lim DO

Topics in this course:

– CP

– Developmental delay

– Learning cognitive and social problems

– Seizures

– Long term respiratory dysfunction

– Long term gut and feeding issues.

Learning outcomes:

1. To understand the range of health issues affecting children who are born prematurely: mental, emotional, and physical/neurological.

2. To understand the aetiology of cerebral palsy and the osteopathic management.

3. Learning difficulties in children: assessment and management.

4. Seizures and pseudo-seizures in infants and children: to understand the variety of presentations and their management.

5. Studying case studies, and analysis to refine reasoning skills.

6. The practical skills involve the range of fascial techniques:

• 1) Neidner’s fascial release
• 2) BLT | techniques to the lower extremities, hips, pelvis, diaphragm and ribs to rebalance muscle tone and autonomic tone.
• 3) neurological assessment of children with learning difficulties, including the testing of primitive reflexes 4) contacting the autonomic nervous system via a sacro-coccygeal contact (ganglion impar and sacral outflow).
• 5) stimulating the first breaths via a contact on the diaphragm and crura (L1-3), taking the fascia of the diaphragm to a point to ease.