COURSE OUTLINE

Naturopathic Osteopathy Course

Naturopathic Osteopathy Course

Osteopathy takes a holistic, whole-body approach to healthcare. It uses manual ‘hands-on’ techniques to improve circulation and correct altered biomechanics, without the use of drugs.

Manual techniques are used to balance all the body systems, and to provide overall good health and wellbeing.

Techniques include stretching, gentle pressure, and resistance, known as osteopathic manipulative medicine.

This course provides the basic techniques used by Osteopaths so that Naturopaths understand the principles of Osteopathy in order to help refer patients for osteopathic manipulations.

COURSE CURRICULUM

There are 14 lessons in this Naturopathic Osteopathy Course, some with videos, with 10 assignment questions after each lesson, and a final exam online that is timed with 50 questions.

Lesson 2 – Difference between Osteopaths, Chiropractors and Physiotherapists – a video with 3 practitioners who look at these differences

Lesson 3 – What is Osteopathy? – the relationship between structure and function

Lesson 4 – Our Fine Spine: The Backbone of Structural Integrity – simple techniques to help with our spinal structural integrity

Lesson 5 – Where Does Your Back Go when it Goes Out? – vertebral dysfunctions and what can be done about them

Lesson 6 – Finding and Fixing the Fixations

Lesson 7 – Low Back Pain Definition – radiculopathy, non-specific low back pain, discogenic pain, sacro-iliac joint pain, mental factors

Lesson 8 – Osteopathic Principles – 5 principles, structure and function, self-healing, the body as a unit, rule of the artery, the patient, not the disease, somatic dysfunction

Lesson 9 – Diagnostics in Osteopathy – osteopathic techniques, mobilization techniques, HVLA direct, MET direct, functional release technique, fascial and ligamentous release techniques, visceral and cranial osteopathy

Lesson 10 – Osteopathic Management of Low Back Pain – methodology, SF-36 health survey, Oswestry disability index, pain diary, assessment, osteopathic treatment, treatment plan

Lesson 11 – Causative Factors – sitting posture, loss of lumbar extension, frequency of flexion, precipitating factors

Lesson 12 – The Cause of Pain – nociceptive receptor system, chemical and mechanical causes of pain, trauma, mechanical deformation, postural stress, abnormal forces

Lesson 13 – Osteopathic Diagnosis – therapists responsibility, diagnostic difficulties, taking a thorough history

Lesson 14 – The Examination – posture sitting, posture standing, the examination of movement, deviation inflexion, repeated movements, test movements, the flexion principle

Course Materials: All the course materials are online.