Visceral Manipulation: Applications for Pediatrics

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Learn how early therapy on newborns and infants can possibly reduce the percentage of problems later in life, therefore, the use of visceral manipulation in pediatrics is particularly important.
During the training, participants will learn about the following areas:

• Explore embryology and the developmental landmarks (normal and abnormal) that occur month by month during and after gestation
• Discover how to evaluate a baby or child
• Learn general treatment ideas, such as how to work with babies, toddlers, and children, as well as working with those who are tactilely sensitive
• Understand the signs of trauma, as well as evaluation and treatment techniques
• Integrate specific treatment techniques for common visceral restrictions found in children, as well as Barral's approach to cranial techniques
• Learn about Visceral Manipulation precautions and contraindications when working with children
• Explore special considerations, e.g. typical surgeries, prematurity, children with neuromotor problems and craniosynostosis
• Practice working with infants and children in a supervised environment

COURSE TOPIC

• Differences between the treatment of children and adults in terms of the nervous system and internal organs
  
• General embryology
• Guided exercises
• Cranial embryology
• Listening on the skull, cranial sutures/foramina/tentorium, viscerocranium
• Craniocervical transition, combined techniques
• Regulation and co-regulation
• Normal development
• Examination, Guidelines for treatment techniques, relative contraindications
• Demonstration treatments
• The viscera - embryology, examination and treatment
  Stomach, liver, sphincters, small intestine, kidneys and urogenital system, heart and lungs
• Vagus nerve
• Supervised exercises in young children, infants
• Contraindications, special considerations
• Questions and answers