Intro to infant / neonatal Osteo - Osteopathic concepts for assessment of newborn / infant.

PRACTICAL COURSE + ZOOM OPTION ; Osteopathic concepts for assessment of newborn / infant. Review of developmental & emerging physiology / sensory development, cranial fluids & CVS / Resp. Exploring infant anatomy/function. Plus vestibular/ arousal dynamics, initial reflexes and infant feeding.

Free accommodation included for the first 6 applicants - please enquire after booking, and if all taken, you need to arrange your own local accommodation at your own cost. This is bunk bed style / shared rooms, in the house where the lectures are.

From Friday lunchtime to Sunday late afternoon, you will have 3 packed days - lots of osteopathic hands on and clinically applicable concepts and assessment routines, whatever your level of current expertise or mode of practice.

CAPPED AT SMALL NUMBERS, FOR EXCLUSIVE MASTER-CLASS TRAINING EVENT. You can also zoom in via live webinar if you cant make it up north / are abroad. Zoom allows you to choose your own language captions if your English needs some help. Recordings are available for everyone afterwards.

1) live zoom access if not attending in person - and you can choose your language / captions settings

2) zoom recordings and handouts after the event

3) extensive review of osteopathic approaches and concepts for assessment in the newborn - this is not focused on Sutherland / biodynamics, but will help you get updated physiology and frameworks to use these palpatory phenomena, based on updated science / evidence / fluids physiology etc

4) learning about the somatophysiology and neurodeveloment of the foetal / infant transition, and how to interpret clinical observations and behaviours

5) reviews case history elements and concepts for the maternal-infant dyad

6) covers assessment of newborn head, body and global function, and expected development trajectory

7) reviews initial primitive reflexes, focusing on moro and asymmetric tonic neck reflexes, the facial and oral feeding reflexes, and survival reflexes, and their physiological meaning

8) this integrates how vestibular and autonomic functions, and fluid physiology are linked,

9) how thoracic breathing, oxygenation and nutrition

10) understanding of development of circadian rhythms, self and co-regulation and the energy demands in brain growth and immune profile