This is the program we are running in collaboration with the German Osteopathic Society and will only run through 2018. From fall 2017 we will start a new 4 year program with similar content, but a different timeframe. This will be added on the website soon.
We offer our three curriculums in the craniosacral/neural and visceral field as an integrated part of a complete osteopathic training. The idea for doing this has been developed by our colleagues in Germany and they have many years of experience in implementing this idea and they are going to be our supervisors and guide in this process of setting this up in the Nordic region.
We follow the definitions and guidelines of the World Health Organization WHO about the content of an osteopathic training for health care practitioners consisting of a minimum 1000 hours.
The program is flexible so each participant will take responsibility for their own pace in passing through each curriculum, and each class is a separate module. Each of the four curriculums (webinar, parietal, visceral and cranial/neural) will remain a separate curriculum for those who are only interested in that part and do not wish to complete the whole osteopathic training.
We follow the standards of the German Osteopathic Society for cranial, neural and visceral content, but we add extra classes to them that deal with how to include the osteopathic aspect of each class content including differential diagnosis.
This program will consist of the following:
- Online webinars on the history, theory and development of osteopathy.
- Parietal system: Address the muscle/skeleton system
- Visceral system: Visceral manipulation
- Cranial and neural: choice between module A or Module B
- Module A – CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release
- Module B – CranioSacral Techniques and Neural Manipulation
- Integration of the three systems.
Webinar |
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| Basics | 2 days – 15 hours |
| Basis theory | 6 days – 45 hours |
| Total | 8 days – 60 hours |
Parietal modules |
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| Sutherland techniques | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Myofascial release | 5 days – 40 hours |
| General Osteopathic techniques | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Strain-Counterstrain | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Muscle Energy Techniques | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Spinal Mobilization | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Mobilization of the Extremities | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Homework | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Integration and examination | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Total | 45 days – 360 hours |
Visceral modules |
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| Anatomy | 2 days – 16 hours |
| Visceral Manipulation 1 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| Visceral Manipulation 2 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| Visceral Manipulation 3 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| Visceral Manipulation 4 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| Visceral Manipulation 5 | 3 days – 24 hours |
| Visceral Manipulation 6 | 3 days – 24 hours |
| VM in Osteopathic Health Care | 4 days – 32 hours |
| Homework | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Integration and examination | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Total: | 38 days – 304 hours |
CranioSacral/Neural module A |
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| Anatomy | 2 days – 16 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 1 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 2 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 3 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 4 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 5 | 5 days – 40 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 6 | 5 days – 40 hours |
| CS in Osteopathic Health Care | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Homework | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Integration and examination | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Total: | 43 days – 344 hours |
CranioSacral/Neural module B |
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| Anatomy | 2 days – 16 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 1 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 2 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| CranioSacral Therapy 3 | 4 days – 32 hours |
| Neural Manipulation 1 | 3 days – 24 hours |
| Neural Manipulation 2 | 3 days – 24 hours |
| Neural Manipulation 3 | 3 days – 24 hours |
| Neural Manipulation 4 | 3 days – 24 hours |
| CS/NM in Osteopathic Health Care | 7 days – 64 hours |
| Homework | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Integration and examination | 5 days – 40 hours |
| Total: | 43 days – 344 hours |
Integrational classes |
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| Clinical Assessment | |
| Integration and Certification | |
| The complete program is 143 days – 1140 hours | |
Notes
Class times
All classes start daily at 9.00 and end at 18.00 (sometimes 8-17) (end at 3 pm on the last class day).
CST 3-6 start daily at 9.00 and have an open end.
Two daily coffee breaks of 15 minutes and one hour lunch break (no lunch break on the last class day)
Participants who are certified Manual Therapist
Certified Manual Therapists are being recognized by class credits. Classes and topics with credit are: Muscle Energy Techniques, Spinal Mobilization, Mobilization of the Extremities, Homework and Examination.
Participants who are certified craniosacral therapist.
Certified craniosacral therapists who have completed a minimum 250 hours of training from another school, can attend our combined level 1-2 before moving onto level-3.
Clinical assessment class
The first day covers the medical history of patients – Anamnesis. On the second day the participants learn how to establish a clinical medical investigation, to be able to detect medical contraindications and take necessary actions. The last day is covered with osteopathic observations and assessments.
Homework
All homework consists of 10 open questions. They should be answered with a length of ½ to ¾ of a page.
Integration and examination for each curriculum
On the first day the process starts with a Multiple Choice-test – 40 questions for the usual three blocks examination. After that the content of all classes per block are repeated and deepened within the first two days. The treatment techniques will be related to the findings during observation/assessing. Connections and interactions in between and transitions to other techniques are worked out. The next two and a half days are the examination days in which every participant has 45 minutes to show his oral and technical ability. On the last day every
participant will be asked to comment his examination – the end result will be discussed.
Integration and certification
On the first day the process starts with a Multiple Choice-test – 60 questions. After that the content of all integrational classes and webinars are repeated and deepened within the first day. All treatment principles will be related to the findings during observation/assessing. Connections and interactions in between and transitions to other techniques are worked out. The next two days are the days in which every participant has 45 minutes to show his oral and technical ability per block (two person committee) and in a 30 minutes medical testing (differential diagnoses – two person committee). On the next one and a half day every participant will assess and treat one
patient in front of a four person committee. At the end of the last day every participant will be asked to comment his whole certification process – the end result will be discussed.
Certificate
After passing all exams and certification class, the participant receive the “Certificate of Osteopathic Health” (by the German Osteopathic Society)
Webinars
We meet for about one to one and a half hour for every webinar. Each webinar has a specific topic.
Basics 1
Historic background of Still, Sutherland and John Martin Littlejohn – not too much, just to have the participants understand, that there are just a few central topics that cover osteopathy – the most import one is rhythmical fluidal.
Basics 2
All about the osteopathic lesion and dysfunction – basic information. What is meant by the two different, how can they be detected, osteopathic diagnoses and a little bit about treatment and contraindications.
Basic theory 1
Adaptation and self-organization. Basic principles about physical trauma, Littlejohn’s principles on health, unhealth and illness, therapeutic aspects and clinical integration – introduction to the step by step assessment using the fact, that medical assessment is needed before osteopathic diagnostic and treatment can be used.
Basic theory 2
Emergency cases: general cases (consciousness, breathing and blood circulation).
Basic theory 3
Emergency cases: local and psychiatric cases.
Basic theory 4
Infection illnesses: legal and clinical aspects – how to detect them or assume that there might be an infection/illness.
Basic theory 5
Contraindications: conditions in which: the possible risk is higher than the possible result, medical assessment or medical therapy is or might be nedded.
Basic theory 6
Differential diagnosis and therapy: the SOAP-method (subjective, objective, analysis, plan), medical history, clinical assessment techniques, clinical assessment, osteopathic diagnostic and therapy treatment methods
Parietal classes
Import for all parietal classes is one principal method per class that means a very precise core intend.
Sutherland Techniques
Techniques to be used for an osteopathic lesion – 3D-directionspecific hypermobile movement, no
tenderpoints linked to the lesional joint(s), visceral part is not the main part, no specific energetic aspects existing. Specific therapeutical process to reposition the “luxated bone” after release its fascial surroundings in all joints or segments.
Myofascial release
Techniques used for an osteopathic dysfunction – 3D-direction specific mono- or polyarticular organized fascial strings or bundles. Specific therapeutical process to release the strings or bundles in all parts of the body.
General osteopathic technique
Techniques used for an osteopathic dysfunction specified (local joint dysfunction) or non-specified (fascial mono- or polyarticular). Specific therapeutical process to release local tensions or tissue-hardenings (to release the dysfunction or specify it).
Strain and Counterstrain
Techniques to be used for an osteopathic lesion – 3D-directionspecific hypermobile movement with specific tenderpoints linked to the lesional joint(s), visceral part is not the main part, no specific energetic aspects existing. Specific therapeutical process to reposition the “luxated bone” after release its fascial surroundings in all joints or segments by using the release-process of the tenderpoint.
Muscle energy technique
Techniques used for an osteopathic dysfunction specified (local joint dysfunction) or non-specified (fascial mono- or polyarticular) with muscular tension- or spasm aspects. Specific therapeutic process to release local tensions (to release the dysfunction or specify it).
Mobilization technique (spine and extremities)
Techniques used for a specified osteopathic joint dysfunction – specific local joint barrier – without fascial or muscular tension- or spasm aspects. Specific therapeutic process, to mobilize or manipulate the specific barrier.
VM/CS/NM in Osteopathic Health Care classes
Content from these classes is modified to suit the necessary over all principles of the osteopathic curriculum. The techniques and the therapeutic principal is integrated within the context of complete integration (medical and osteopathic).