COURSE CONTENT

HEAD TRAUMA AND MENTAL HEALTH

AN OSTEOPATHIC APPROACH

THE DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF HEALTH AND DISEASE

 AN OSTEOPATHIC RATIONALE

A 3-day course designed for Osteopaths trained in the Cranial Field

1. Introduction & Membrain Health versus Membrain Disorder

My Background and the Book – why the book is written for the lay person

The skull is a living structure

The dura and tensegrity

Sick building syndrome.

2. The History of Mental Health Diagnosis

Allopathic and Osteopathic – history to the modern day

An introduction to a new model of diagnosis based around Steven Busers 8 spectrums of mental health states and the contributory factors that create shifts along these spectrums.

 One of these contributing factors being……

 

3./4./5. Physical Head Trauma and their legacies

From birth to current day, in its many different forms from childbirth to orthodontics to contact sports head trauma. 

 

6. The Brain – Modern Day Phrenology

The irrigation systems of the brain

 

 7. Biological Complexity and the Dimensional Model of Health - Phylogenesis

  • This model offers a scientific rationale and most importantly a language for osteopathy in its intended format. 

  • Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis - both demonstrate the step by step development of the human form over time (chronology) and increasing levels of complexity (hierarchy).  The self formation and self maintenance at each dimensional level is the focus of our attention as osteopaths.

  •  An Introduction to complex adaptive systems (CAS)  and the advent of life – evolution

  • The Russian Doll

8. Ontogenesis 1 (Embryology)

The Chronology

Ectoderm/Mesodern/Endoderm ->  frontier tissue and inner tissue 

9. Ontogenesis 2 (Embryology)

Homunculus neurocrania/ Homunculus interni/ Homunculus viscerocranii – how they integrate.

 

10. DMH Applied to Mental Health Patients – understanding how we look for the Dimension of Origin of a patient’s condition.  This then provides a road map of what is the best treatment approach for that patient.

11. Discussion

These ideas are not just for the student to take back to his practice and quietly apply in practice – these ideas need ‘legs’ to carry them.

A discussion around research, teaching, consent, mentoring and carrying forward all this applied information to the wider profession and beyond.

 

On the last afternoon there will be a double practical session where students will pair up and do a full assessment, an osteopathic evaluation using the language they have learnt and a treatment.

 

Finally there will be time for questions and head checks. 

All lectures will be sprinkled with patient stories as living examples

Most lectures will be followed by a practical session working to develop diagnostic and treatment skill alongside the use of a common and undisputable language.