Starting with Babies
Learn how to stay calm, increase confidence, control baby's mood, treat no matter what, scheduling, networking with other types of practitioners, red flags, treatment cautions, mobility expectations, and more.
Learn the 3 best ways to begin a treatment, how to know if things are improving, how to chart, when to book follow-ups, learn common problems, treatment positions and palpation methods.
Many helpful resources are included, like an intake form and info cards for families.
Taught by Joanne Lynne (see the "About Us" page for her credentials).
2 hours of con-ed learning
Course Instructor & OutlineÂ
1. Staying calm
- Leave your problems at the door
- You need to do very little to affect change
- You are enhancing a baby’s health
- Being informed about birth and delivery
- Building a referral list of practitioners
2. Keeping baby calm
- If baby arrives asleep
- If baby arrives crying
- If baby arrives hungry
- If baby arrives calm and awake
- Take frequent breaks
- Intra-Oral assessment
3. Where should I start?
- Shock/emotional trauma
- General treatment
- The thorax
4. How do I know if things are improving?
- Resolution of original concerns
- Main areas to re-check
- Charting
5. When to book again?
- When to book follow ups
- Growth spurts
- Chronic issues in babies
6. Most common baby problems
- Head turning/gaze preference, torticollis
- Head shape problems
- Latching difficulties/fussiness
- Digestive, colic, spitting up
More:
Treating stubborn torticollis, paediatric physiotherapy referrals, clinical resource ideas for parents, different techniques and holds on babies, tips and tricks for various main strain patterns and problems, positional plagiocephaly, brachycephaly, craniosynostosis, fetal head molding and the dural connection, and more.
Joanne Lynne is the course instructor and content creator for this course. Her accreditations are a Masters of Osteopathic Manipulative Sciences (MOMSc.), a certificate in paediatric cranio-sacral therapy, and B.Sc. in Physics. She has studied paediatric osteopathy under Registered Osteopaths Dr. Jonathan Evans (UK) and (UK) and Miranda Clayton (UK).Â
Why take this course?
It's great for manual therapists who want practical ideas and solid expectations of what its like treating babies.
We know our skills but we want to apply them properly to a baby.Â
We also want to be able to differentiate normal and variations of normal, and know when to refer to a medical professional.
This course has a lot of value. It covers a little bit of a lot of subjects. It is an introduction but with enough concrete foundational information to get you started right!
Great presentation, flowcharts, photos, treatment videos & more
The first half of the video is a flowchart to get you thinking in an organized way. Joanne goes through each step with you and gives practical advice and experience along the way. The latter half of the video answers questions and shows pictures and videos of many different helpful things to make your baby practice flourish!
What else can this course teach me?
You will also see pictures and videos of:
Different techniques and holds on babies
Tips and tricks for various main strain patterns and problems
Cranial holds/hand positioning
Making babies comfortable on the table
How to keep working while keeping baby happy
Hypotonic tongue
Intra-Oral tips
Suckling testing
What is a good latch
Rare case: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Positional plagiocephaly, brachycephaly
Craniosynostosis
Fetal head molding and the dural connection
A special case: Twins that can’t sleep
