Treating the Infant Cranium
A course that will teach you legal considerations, red flags, special skull characteristics in babies, head conditions, injuries from birth and medical interventions, assessment and treatment skills, an introduction to oral function problems, and more!
2.5 hours of con-ed learning
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- Differences between infant and adult skull structure
- Fontanelles and sutures
- Legal considerations
- Red flags
- General tips when treating babies
Structures of the Cranium
- The cranial base: SBJ joint & strain types, intraosseous strains in infants
- Sutures and balancing
- Anterior fontanelle
- Cranial molding during delivery
- Overlapping skull plates & treatment considerations
- The occipital bone and the brain stem
- Cranial nerves 9, 10, and 12
- The sphenoid & treatment considerations
- The mandible and midline strains
- Cranial membrane system & reciprocal tension
- Sutherland’s fulcrum
- Confluence of sinuses and venous flow
- Treating the fluid system & the CSF
- The sacrum
Forces Affecting the Infant Cranium
- Passing through the bony pelvis
- Forces affecting the fetus/baby
- Soft tissues of the birthing parent
- Medical interventions: vacuum and forcep extractions
- Cephalohematomas
Common Conditions of Infant Craniums
- Brachycephaly
- Plagiocephaly
- Corrective head devices & how they help baby and families
- Side effects of cranial moulding devices - Study & results
- Craniosynostosis
- Signs of craniosynostosis
- Unconventional head shapes
- Scaphocephaly
- Head shape case studies (5)
Hand Placements and Treatment Positioning
- Cranial base holds
- Frontal bone
- Thorax, seated & standing
- Lateral Positioning
- Parietals
- Temporal bones
- Zygomas
- Ethmoid
- Prone work
- Surfaces to lie baby on
- Your body mechanics
Oral Mechanics and Dysfunction, a Brief Introduction
- What to examine & how
- The mandible and TMJs
- Sublingual tissues
- Maxilla and the hard palate
- Assessing a baby’s latch
- Mechanics of proper breast feeding
- Tongue ties
- Lingual frenectomies
- Complications from poor resting tongue posture
Treatment Considerations Regarding Palpation
- Pressure
- Feeling
- Assessing
- Reacting
- Following
- Balancing, indirect, direct
- Compression & matching the compression
- Resolution
- IntegrationÂ
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 Miranda Clayton (UK).
Why take this course?
Given our skillset in manual therapy, we want to apply our tools properly to a baby's special anatomy.
It is important to be able to differentiate normal and variations of normal, and know when to refer to a medical professional. Knowing common red flags helps us do that. Being aware of legal considerations keeps us covered.
The content is comprehensive and invaluable for the therapist who wants to feel confident and safe when treating babies.
Perfect balance of content, photos, videos, quizzes &Â resource materials
This course is a replay of a live webinar presentation, adapted to be an organized format for your online learning schedule. Short chapters keep it manageable. It is enhanced with many extras to complement the topic of infant craniums.
A 24-minute demonstration video course upgrade (April 2024) complements the quiz section of this course. See a full treatment breakdown with heaps of anatomy and overlay pictures. More to learn, same price as before!
Who should take this course, and when?
You are a registered or graduate manual therapist, or upper year student of a related program.
You currently see babies but aren't getting results you could be getting.
You have a desire to see more babies in your practice.
You are in need of knowing paediatric anatomy.
