"Consistent improvement is better than delayed perfection."

With this course you will learn how to assess and understand what is going on in the pelvis & abdomen at a deeper level.

Instructors: Joanne Lynne, OMP, B.Sc., MALAT (in progress), Terra Nicolle, OMP, RMT, PFT

Certificate for 2 hours

This course includes

• Contraindications to treatment
• Pregnancy treatment myths 
• Common complaints
• Principles of treatment
• Treatment goals

Signs & symptoms during pregnancy

• Hormones & fluid issues
• Back pain
• Ligament pain
• Pelvic pain
• Headaches
• Shoulder & wrist pain, etc...

Anatomy

• The abdomen & liver
• The pelvis & lumbars
• Right obliquity of the fetal lie
• Ligaments of the uterus

Physiology effects

• Diaphragm compensations
• Breathing effects
• Lymphatics
• Blood volume & pressure
• Enlarging breast tissue
• Digestion disturbances
• Postural compensation
• Nerve irritations

Assessment

• Pre-pregnancy status
• The 1st trimester
• The 2nd trimester
• The 3rd trimester
• Which ligaments are already stretched, know how NOT to stretch them even more

And more...

• Cervical curve & the carotid sheath
• Reflexes & poor body coordination
• Progesterone & relaxin effects
• Fetal head in the pelvic bowl

Terra knows pregnancy & birth

Osteopathic skills aside, do you really understand what is happening with the womb, how it grows and becomes the "driver" of mom's discomfort and pain?

Experience counts! Terra's knowledgable background and plethora of experiences through academics and from travelling abroad in her mission work give you a unique perspective to pregnancy.