Note: On Saturday the course will end at 13:00
Outline of the course
The journey from conception to birth, followed by the first years of infancy, holds many challenges for the developing child.
In this seminar, it will be explored this extraordinary journey by encompassing the perspectives of both mother and infant from an osteopathic viewpoint.
This fascinating program will help to enhance your knowledge of the changes that occur before and after birth, and some of the issues which might arise.
The course will be mainly practical and based on real clinical cases on site to assess and treat, so to teach how as osteopaths we can offer appropriate and effective support to our infant patients, with a focus on the fascial system.
The program includes 3 days on the osteopathic fascial evaluation and treatment of babies and their most common disorders, ranging from colics to sleep problems, from birth trauma to respiratory infections.
Theory and practical sessions will be alternating in a high quality teaching based on clinical analysis, synthesis and integration.
Objectives
– To present the structure and function interrelationship of the fascial system in babies
– To introduce effective procedures of evaluation of the fascial system in infants, including various tensional, gliding, listening and pressure tests
– To propose several fascial mechanisms by which somatic dysfunction may be induced and maintained
– To illustrate the most common fascial techniques in pediatric osteopathy, ranging from direct myofascial release to fascial unwinding, potentiated by ‘space lifting’ and ‘fluid driving’ concepts
– To present the osteopathic rationale behind the fascial treatment of the most common disorders in childhood
– To elaborate an osteopathic intervention on babies based on clinical analysis, synthesis and integration