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What you'll get:

  1. Birth and It's Injuries
  2. Starting with Babies
  3. Treating the Infant Cranium
  4. Tethered Oral Tissues
  5. Intra-Oral Treatment
Plus a free course: Infant Latch, Jaw & Tongue
  • 24/7 access to all of your courses, no expiry
  • 7 certificates (6 online courses plus 1 for tutorials) for a grand total of 20 learning hours
  • great for beginners to intermediates
  • everything you need to knowĀ for easy work with babies
  • learn from real time baby treatments
  • enhance baby's health andĀ give them the best start in life
  • a rewarding experience like no other
  • specialize and stand out in your community

This course is for professional graduates of manual therapy. Contact us to find out if youĀ fit these categories if you aren't sure.

Starting With Babies

  1. Video Replay and Resources

    6 lessons
    1. IMPORTANT Starting Information - Please read
    2. Course Outline
    3. Webinar Replay & Helpful Resources
    4. Intake and History
    5. IJOM Articles - Safeguarding Children in Osteopathy Practice
    6. IJOM - Positional Plagiocephaly Article (Italy)

  2. Quiz & Sneak Peeks

    6 lessons
    1. Quiz
    2. Birth Injuries with Dr. Dustin Costescu SNEAK PEEK
    3. Treating the Infant Cranium SNEAK PEEK
    4. Tethered Oral Tissues SNEAK PEEK
    5. Intra Oral Treatment SNEAK PEEK
    6. Certificate of completion - how to get it

Birth and its Injuries

  1. Course Introduction

    5 lessons
    1. IMPORTANT Please read before beginning this course
    2. Welcome to the Course
    3. About Your Instructor
    4. Outline and Objectives
    5. About my guest, Dr. Dustin Costescu

  2. The Bony Pelvis & Normal Birth

    8 lessons
    1. Anatomy and Structural Relationships
    2. Variations in Anatomy: Structure and Function
    3. The Cervix
    4. The Normal Birth
    5. Stages of labour and pushing, briefly explained by Dr. Dustin
    6. The Normal Birth Forces
    7. Forces as described by Dr. Dustin
    8. Predicting how a birth may go, by Dr. Dustin

  3. Complications and Their Impacts on Baby and Mum

    9 lessons
    1. Things That Complicate Birth
    2. Malpositions
    3. Malpresentations
    4. Some insight on occiput posterior births, by Dr. Dustin
    5. Different fetal presentations as explained by Dr. Dustin
    6. Breech Babies
    7. External Cephalic Versions - a medical procedure explained by Dr. D
    8. How OBs determine when to move to a medical intervention
    9. Drops in fetal heart rate make medical interventions a necessity

  4. Medical Interventions

    8 lessons
    1. Forceps
    2. Ventouse (Vacuum) Extractions
    3. Comments about forceps & vacuums from the doctor himself
    4. Dr. Dustin: Choosing which medical intervention to use
    5. Cesarean Sections
    6. How C-section incisions are made, by Dr. Dustin
    7. Moving from C-sections to inductions. Dr. Dustin explains why.

    1. Birth Trauma

      1. Birth Injuries and Uterine-Lie Problems

  5. Midwifery and Medical Births, Course Wrap Up & Resources

    7 lessons
    1. Midwives in the hospital setting, from an OB's point of view
    2. Wrapping Things Up, Goodbye from Dr. Costescu and me!
    3. Parting words and encouragement from Joanne
    4. Intake and Birth History Form
    5. IJOM Article - Osteopathic Intervention for Infants with Feeding Issues
    6. IJOM - Positional Plagiocephaly Article (Italy)
    7. Certificate of completion - how to get it

Tethered Oral Tissues

  1. Course Introduction

    4 lessons
    1. IMPORTANT Please read before beginning this course
    2. Welcome to the Course
    3. About This Content
    4. Outline and Objectives

  2. Anatomy and Physiology

    5 lessons
    1. The Infra-Hyoids
    2. The Supra-Hyoids
    3. The Tongue
    4. Quiz time! And, fun fact time!
    5. Reference Materials

  3. Tethered Oral Tissues

    10 lessons
    1. Why worry about the tongue? -- Dr. Johal
    2. Tongue-Tie: Definitions and Complications
    3. Assessment Tool for Ankyloglossia
    4. Signs of Ankyloglossia
    5. Lip-Tie Definitions and Complications (audio lesson)
    6. How Dr. Johal diagnoses lip ties
    7. Attributes of Lip-Ties
    8. Delayed Lip-Tie Problems
    9. Buccal Ties - by Dr. Johal
    10. Assessing ankyloglossia in adults by Dr. Johal

  4. Surgical Releases

    6 lessons
    1. What tissue is surgically released?
    2. Goals of a Tongue-Tie Release (audio lesson)
    3. Best Timing for Release Procedures
    4. Post Surgery Results (audio lesson)
    5. SIDEBAR: The Lactation Consultant's Role
    6. Frenectomy Failures - A Summary (audio lesson)

  5. Oral Tissue Stretches

    4 lessons
    1. Post-frenectomy care explained by Dr. Johal
    2. Pre-Op and Post-Op Stretches (audio lesson)
    3. Stretches and How Parents Perform Them (audio lesson)
    4. Mid-point Quiz

  6. Considerations for osteopathic treatment

    8 lessons
    1. What is Restricting the Tongue? (audio lesson)
    2. Avoiding Surgery? (audio lesson)
    3. Treatment Timing (audio lesson)
    4. IJOM Article - Osteopathic Intervention for Infants with Feeding Issues

    1. Implications of Poor Oral Function on Child Development

      1. Best breast feeding mechanics by Dr. Johal
      2. Breastfeeding is Best for Optimal Cranial Development (audio lesson)
      3. Outcomes of Improper Oro-Facial Development (audio lesson)
      4. Sleep Apnea and Mouth Breathing (audio lesson)

  7. Osteopathy Time

    6 lessons
    1. Your Intake
    2. Mechanisms of Birth Injury (audio lesson)
    3. Demonstration Video
    4. Positions, handling, palpation and landmarking
    5. The Oral Cavity Assessment (audio lesson)
    6. Intra-Oral Treatment (audio lesson)

  8. Course Wrap Up + ADVANCED LEARNING WEBINAR REPLAY

    4 lessons
    1. Wrapping Things Up
    2. Thank you! (audio)
    3. ADVANCED LEARNING TUTORIAL 1 (1.5 hours) - free!
    4. Certificate - how to get it

Intra Oral Treatment

  1. Course Introduction

    8 lessons
    1. Welcome from Joanne
    2. IMPORTANT Please read before beginning this course
    3. Course Introduction
    4. Self-Evaluation Quiz
    5. Are OMPs allowed to work inside the mouth?
    6. Why should we do intra-oral work?
    7. Course Outline
    8. IJOM Article - Osteopathic Intervention for Infants with Feeding Issues

  2. Anatomy, TOTS, and Intra-Oral Work

    10 lessons
    1. Anatomy and Relevant Structures
    2. The Tongue
    3. Maxilla & Hard Palate
    4. Tethered Oral Tissue Staging
    5. Assessment/Treatment Framework
    6. Gloves and Positioning
    7. Communicating with Parents
    8. Going In!
    9. Oral Soft Tissue Stretches and Anatomy
    10. Tongue-tie Video

  3. Case Studies

    6 lessons
    1. Olivia
    2. Boyd
    3. Adalynn
    4. Chloe
    5. Garrison
    6. Mia

  4. Referring Out

    5 lessons
    1. Release Providers and How They Work
    2. When to refer out
    3. More Parent Communication
    4. Treatment Scheduling
    5. IJOM Article on communicating with physicians

  5. Course Wrap Up & ADVANCED LEARNING WEBINAR REPLAY

    5 lessons
    1. Moving forward with encouragement and positive energy!
    2. Final Self Assessment Quiz
    3. Resources
    4. Certificate of Completion information
    5. ADVANCED LEARNING TUTORIAL REPLAY (1.5 hours)

Infant Latch, the Jaw & Tongue

  1. Section 1 - Introduction

    3 lessons
    1. IMPORTANT Please read before beginning this course
    2. Welcome to Infant Latch, the Jaw & Tongue
    3. Course Outline

  2. Main Course

    3 lessons
    1. "Red Flags" - Referring out to a medical professional
    2. Infant Latch, the Jaw and Tongue: Secrets of Oral Dysfunction
    3. IJOM Article - Osteopathic Intervention for Infants with Feeding Issues

  3. Sneak Peaks

    5 lessons
    1. Birth Injuries with Dr. Dustin Costescu, OBGYN
    2. Starting With Babies
    3. Treating the Infant Cranium
    4. Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTS)
    5. Intra Oral Treatment

  4. Quiz Time!

    1 lesson
    1. Quiz time!

  5. Course Wrap Up

    3 lessons
    1. Congratulations!
    2. Thank you! Listen to my short audio clip before you go!
    3. Certificate of Completion

V. D.

Thank you Joanne! Baby was delightful and I actually got so much done after some initial fussiness. Once he realized I was super calm and there to help he stopped fighting. I used lots of transitions and was able to get some really good work done in other positions since he didn't like being on his back. His parents were pleasantly surprised and said they were so glad they brought him to see me, which was the cherry on top. Thanks again for all your help. I've really enjoyed the course and I can't wait for the next zoom (support tutorial).

O. A.

Best way to learn... at my own pace and in my own time with the benefits of being able to have live sessions to ask questions! Learning about babies is easier than I thought it would be when the information is presented the way you do it! I love the "mindmap" frameworks that give me a place to start when I don't know what to do. I'm getting better at finding my own way as a pediatric therapist now that I have somewhere to begin. Thanks Joanne!