"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." - Neale Donald Walsh
With this course you will learn the special characteristics and conditions of a baby's skull and how to treat it.
Instructors:Ā Joanne Lynne, OMP, B.Sc., MALAT (in progress)
Certificate forĀ 2.5 hours
This course includes:
- Contraindications to treatment
- Legal considerations
- Intake form & treatment timing
AnatomyĀ
- Special skull features
- Unique cranial base features
- Sutures & fontanelles
- Cranial nerves
- Sacrum & development
- Intraosseous strains vs. interosseous strains
- Sutherland's fulcrum & reciprocalĀ membrane tension
- Confluence of sinuses
- Fluid systems & CSF
Treatment
- Hand placements & positions
- Pressure/contact
- Feeling/assessing
- Reacting & following
- Balanced, direct & indirect
- "Matching the compression"
- Resolution
- Integration
Introduction to oral mechanics
- Sublingual tissue
- Assessing latch
- Mechanics of good feeding
- Ankyloglossia
- Frenectomies
- The vaulted maxilla
Forces affecting the cranium
- Bony pelvis passage
- Forces on the fetus
- Soft tissue
- Medical interventions & injuries
- Intra uterine lie
Conditions
- Brachycephaly
- Plagiocephaly
- Scaphocephaly
- Corrective head devices
- Study of helmet side effects
- Unconventional head shapes
- Craniosynostosis signs
- How fused sutures are diagnosed
- 5 case studies
Treatment flowcharts, pictures and videosĀ
OsteopathicĀ skills aside, do you really understand the special qualities of the infant skull and common conditions?
Treat more safely, feel more confident, and get better results with head shape issues, restricted upper cervicals, and neck turning preferences.
