Assessing Pregnancy

1. Course Introduction and Outline

   7 lessons

   1. Please read before starting
   2. Course Outline
   3. Welcome from Joanne, Your Host! Meet Your Instructor, Terra.
   4. How osteopathy helps pregnancy
   5. Compensatory and Adaptive Changes
   6. Patient Comfort and Positioning
   7. Pregnancy Intake Form

2. Assessing the 1st & 2nd Trimesters

   9 lessons

   1. Cautions for treating pregnancy (again... but we added more!)
   2. Introduction to the First Trimester
   3. The First Trimester
   4. Scoliosis: A Special Pre-Existing Condition
   5. The Second Trimester
   6. Spine and Cord Circulation
   7. Late Second Trimester
   8. Sagittal Plane Effects and Diaphragms
   9. Hormonal Changes & The Classic Pain Pattern

3. Assessing Late 2nd and 3rd Trimesters

   7 lessons

   1. Assessing The Uterus
   2. Right Obliquity
   3. Restrictions of the Uterus
   4. The Third Trimester
   5. The Pelvic Bowl
   6. The Fetal Head in the Pelvic Bowl
   7. Diaphragm reciprocity over all trimesters (video)

4. The Coccyx & Uterine Ligaments

   11 lessons

   1. The Coccyx
   2. Coccyx Assessment
   3. The Uterine Ligaments
   4. The Round Ligaments
   5. Round Ligament Assessment
   6. The Broad Ligaments
   7. Broad Ligament Assessment
   8. The Uterosacral Ligaments
   9. Uterosacral Ligament Assessment
   10. Reciprocal Ligament Stability
   11. Stabilizing the Treatment and Patient

5. Visual Assessments & Course Conclusion

   6 lessons

   1. Fetal Presentations and Fetal Lie
   2. Standing Visual Assessments
   3. Treatment Scheduling
   4. Quiz
   5. IJOM Systematic Review & Meta Analysis of Osteopathy and Pregnancy
   6. Course certificate, how to get it