- How the evolving concept of the osteopathic lesion has affected your training and practice
- How the patient’s body reacts when palpated and how to control that reaction for optimal palpation and treatment using the “Lockdown System”
- A clear palpatory protocol for assessing the lesional information found in the patient’s entire body
- About the hierarchy—there is always a primary lesion—within the patient’s “Adapted Mechanism” of lesions, and how to use the “Inhibition” system to find it
- How to improve your palpation of lesions in the different tissues of the body by learning how to search for the lesions that you have been missing
- How to refine palpation of the patient’s vitality using a system called “Equipoise” designed to facilitate palpation in the body’s most difficult regions
- How to palpate the motility and mobility of the visceral and supporting fascial system given their integral importance to the structure and function of the whole body
- Ultimately, how to make your treatment simpler, more efficient and longer-lasting
- All participants will palpate / assess all other class members and, finally, treat each other
Course Schedule
Friday
October 25th
8:15am – 6:00pm
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Optional: 8:15am—Guided Bön-Based Meditation Practice with Kim Puil
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INTRODUCTION – Introduction to Optimal Osteopathic treatment—Why Do We Treat the Way We Do?
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Explore the Context of Your Osteopathic Practice: Your Religious, Cultural and Philosophical Construct, Your Osteopathic Training and the Evolution of the Osteopathic Lesion
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Understand the Exigencies of Optimal Osteopathic Practice
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Demonstration & Practice: Equipoise— Intraosseous Pelvis, Legs and Interosseous Membrane of the Lower Extremity
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Demonstration & Practice: First Steps of Assessment: 1) Visual Assessment of Patient in Standing (2) Use of the Lockdown and Inhibition Systems with Rotation of Pelvis and the Intraosseous Pelvis and Lower Extremities
Satellite 1: Breath and the Cough
Saturday
October 26th
8:15am – 6:00pm
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Optional: 8:15am—Guided Bön-Based Meditation Practice with Kim Puil
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Q&A and Review
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Demonstration and Practice: Elements of the Palpatory Protocol
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Logical Organization of a Palpatory Assessment Protocol—Osteopathic and
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Mechanical
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Cranium: Equipoise at the Cranium
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Core Link: Equipoise at the Dural Pelvis and Spine
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Breathing Mechanism: T-Vertebrae, Ribs, Endothoracic Fascia and Thoracic Viscera and Diaphragm. Demonstration and Practice: Equipoise and the Thorax
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Abdominal and Pelvic Viscera and Structure, and the “Rhythmical Interstitium”
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Hands-On Practice: Assessment of each of the components of the Palpatory Protocol of all participants
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Demonstration: Visual and Palpatory Assessment with an RM Patient
Sunday
October 27th
8:15am – 6:00pm
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Optional: 8:15am—Guided Bön-Based Meditation Practice with Kim Puil
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Q&A and Review
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Demonstration and Practice of Remaining Elements of the Palpatory Protocol…(continued)
Monday
October 28th
8:15am – 6:00pm
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Optional: 8:15am—Guided Bön-Based Meditation Practice with Kim Puil
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Q&A and Review
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Hands-On Practice: Course participants treat each other
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Demonstration of Practice: Robert Morelli Treats New Patient
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Invited ‘complex’ patients are treated by participants using the new concepts
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Q&A
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Final Remarks
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Q&A and Review Final Remarks