This new online course will be available starting in October 2023. Advance enrollment is now open!
If you have a passion for resolving Cranial Dysfunctions, or want to deepen your understanding of it, you must learn to identify Cranial Patterns of Dysfunction!
This course is Part II and follows "Introduction to the Fundamentals of Cranial Osteopathy: Understanding and Assessing the Cranial Mechanism"
This is a thirteen chapter course spread over six weeks to give you a progressive learning experience. You can expect to devote approximately two hours of learning per week, for a total of twenty five hours.
Like Part 1. Fundamentals of Cranial Osteopathy, this course contains audio lessons, video lessons with your Instructor, video demonstrations of each step of the process in identifying cranial patterns of dysfunction, how to plan your treatment protocol, and video demonstrations of a corrective treatment.
Learning to identify the major classic patterns of dysfunction is key to understanding the basis for a cranial pathology and its implication in global bodily patterns of compensation and cranial trauma.
Cranial Osteopaths know that in order to resolve a bodily pattern of dysfunction, the related Cranial Pattern must also be resolved. This course will teach you how to do just that.
In this online course you will learn about:
The Biomechanics of Cranial Trauma
Direct and Indirect Causes of Cranial Patterns of Dysfunction Impact Injuries and Postural Adaptations
How to identify Cranial
Compactions,
Torsions
Lateral and Vertical Strains
SideBending Rotations
and how to plan your treatment protocols.
How these patterns of dysfunction related to various Cranial Pathologies will be also be taught.
The Workbook:
A desktop PDF version of the Workbook is available to download at the end of this course.
Additional Hands-On Practice Days
Hands-on practice days will be schedule in Toronto and Montreal after the course has launched in 2023-2024..
About the instructor

Educational Director & Instructor
Maureen Hannah Maher
Course Curriculum
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Chapter Release Schedule
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Schedule at a Glance
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DOWNLOAD Chapter Release Schedule here
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Overview with your Instructor Maureen Hannah" Maher, Educational Director
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VIDEO - Introduction with your Instructor Maureen "Hannah" Maher, Educational Director
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Why learn about cranial patterns ?
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The biomechanics of cranial trauma
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Classic examples of cranial trauma and the resulting pattern of dysfunction
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Cranial Patterns of Dysfunction as Primary and Secondary Lesions or Direct and Indirect Causes
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How Cranial Patterns of Dysfunction Relate to Global Bodily Adaptations - Secondary Lesions
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Cranial patterns as Primary Lesions
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Cranial Patterns as secondary lesions
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Common examples of indirect causes of cranial patterns of dysfunction
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Common Examples Cranial Pathologies According to Region or Bone
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Common examples of direct causes of cranial patterns of dysfunction
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Examples of dysfunctions caused by compression of the sphenoid
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Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the occiput
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Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the temporal bones
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Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the frontal bone
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Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the parietal bones
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Cranial Pattern of Compression or Compaction
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What is a Compression or Compaction ?
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Homework & Goal of practice
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Cranial Osteopathy Assessment
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Cranial Osteopathy Assessment Pattern of Cranium Dysfunction
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Cranial Osteopathy Assessment – Patterns of Dysfunction
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what are the symptoms of a compaction?
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Cranial Patterns of Fixed in Flexion
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What is Fixed in Flexion?
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what are the symptoms of being fixed in flexion?
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What Flexion looks like on the face of a client/patient
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Cranial Pattern of Fixed in Extension
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What is Fixed in Extension?
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what are the symptoms of being fixed in extension?
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What Fixed in Extension looks like on the face of a client/patient
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Flexion versus Extension
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Cranial Pattern of a Torsion
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What is a Right SBS Torsion ?
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What is a Left SBS Torsion ?
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what are the symptoms of a torsion?
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What a Torsion looks like on the face of a client/patient
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Cranial Pattern of a Strain
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What is a Vertical Strain or Vertical Shear ?
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What is a Right Lateral strain or Lateral Shear?
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What is a Left Lateral strain or Lateral Shear?
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what are the symptoms of a strain or shear?
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What a Vertical Strain looks like on the face of a client/patient
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What a Lateral Strain looks like on the face of a client/patient
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Vertical Strain versus Lateral Strain
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Cranial Pattern of a Side Bending Rotation
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What is a Sidebending Rotation ?
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Right Side-bending Rotation
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Left Side-bending Rotation
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what are the symptoms of a side bending rotation?
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Identifying Dysfunctional Patterns using the Cranial Assessment Chart
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Review of the Advantages of Using a Charting Method in your Practice
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Using the Cranial Diagram
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Cranial Osteopathy Assessment Chart
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Charting Patterns of Dysfunction using the SSB Assessment Chart
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Homework & Goal of practice
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TRAINING VIDEOS - Assessing a client/patient for potential cranial patterns of dysfunction
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Step 1. Interviewing your client/patient for cranial or craniosacral history
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Step 2. Assessing the Occiput
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Step 3. Assessing the Sphenoid
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Step 4. Assessing the overall energy of the spheno-basilary symphesis
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Step 5. Charting your findings of the SSB & Identifying a Pattern
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Step 8. Creating a Treatment Plan according to your Findings
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TRAINING VIDEO - Treating the Cranium according to Pattern of Dysfunction
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Step 1. Treating the Cranium according to pattern of dysfunction
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HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
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HOMEWORK & Goal of practice
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Homework : Charting the Cranio-Sacral System
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Cranial Osteopathy Assessment Chart
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Homework Goal of practice this week:
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criteria
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About your Instructor
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Maureen Norah Maher, BA, DO(Qc), DO(MP) Osteopath Practitioner and Educator
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