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

Since Maureen began teaching, she found that not only does she have a natural gift for it (her parents were both teachers, so let hear it for genetics!), she found that she also holds a great desire to give back to the community and a profession that has been so fulfilling to her, and share over twenty years of acquired experience and knowledge.   Maureen brings extensive knowledge in Osteopathy  to her educational seminars.  Throughout her career which began in Montreal in 2003, Maureen has been an accredited member in good standing in several provinces across Canada, including the CPMDQ (Quebec), OsteopathyBC (British Columbia), OFOP (Ontario) and SCMMAC (Quebec). Like many classically trained Manual Osteopaths in Canada, Maureen wrote a thesis as part of her Osteopathy training. Hers was within the field of Cranial Osteopathy, on the Prevalence of Muscle and Myofascial Chain Link Dysfunctions and the Temporal Bone. Maureen was also an Associate Overseas member of the Australian Osteopathic Association (AOA) from 2008 to 2011.  After undergoing accreditation evaluation for foreign trained Osteopaths in Perth, Western Australia, Maureen was offered a position in one of Singapore's leading Osteopathic Clinics, giving her the distinction of having been the first Canadian trained Osteopath to be approved to practice  in South East Asia.   Right before the worldwide economic collapse in 2010, Maureen was offered a position in Shanghai China, which required accreditation with the GOSC, UK, which she began, but as prevailing economic conditions worsened, the position was put on hold, and Maureen decided instead to settled in Toronto, Canada, where after reluctantly accepting a poorly paid teaching contract, her students began asking her to design courses in more specialized subjects within Osteopathy, including Women's Health and Pediatrics.  It was not long after that Maureen founded the Center for Continuing Education of Osteopathy & Manual Therapy where she continued to innovate every day! Today, Maureen still teaches continuing education courses in specialized fields of Osteopathic Manual Therapy. Her students say that Maureen's teaching style is animated, engaging, but most importantly, informative.  Her gift lies in communicating complex theories in simple terms and analogies.  Her students come away with a clear grasp of Osteopathic concepts for treatment, and practical knowledge of how to apply them.  In more recent years, Maureen has created online versions of some of her most popular courses, and it is thanks to this new era of online learning that Osteopaths throughout Canada and throughout the world have been able to use Maureen's teachings and treatment protocols to help women, infants, and the general public find relief from the bodily dysfunctions that are so amenable to osteopathic manual treatments. Practitioners who enroll in any of our continuing education courses can contact Maureen at any time by email or pre-arranged phone call with clinical questions.  As a result, many Osteopaths worldwide still consult with her today regarding challenging Osteopathy cases.  

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter Release Schedule

    • Schedule at a Glance

    • DOWNLOAD Chapter Release Schedule here

  • 2

    Overview with your Instructor Maureen Hannah" Maher, Educational Director

    • VIDEO - Introduction with your Instructor Maureen "Hannah" Maher, Educational Director

    • Why learn about cranial patterns ?

    • The biomechanics of cranial trauma

    • Classic examples of cranial trauma and the resulting pattern of dysfunction

  • 3

    Cranial Patterns of Dysfunction as Primary and Secondary Lesions or Direct and Indirect Causes

    • How Cranial Patterns of Dysfunction Relate to Global Bodily Adaptations - Secondary Lesions

    • Cranial patterns as Primary Lesions

    • Cranial Patterns as secondary lesions

    • Common examples of indirect causes of cranial patterns of dysfunction

  • 4

    Common Examples Cranial Pathologies According to Region or Bone

    • Common examples of direct causes of cranial patterns of dysfunction

    • Examples of dysfunctions caused by compression of the sphenoid

    • Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the occiput

    • Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the temporal bones

    • Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the frontal bone

    • Examples of dysfunction caused by compression of the parietal bones

  • 5

    Cranial Pattern of Compression or Compaction

    • What is a Compression or Compaction ?

    • Homework & Goal of practice

    • Cranial Osteopathy Assessment

    • Cranial Osteopathy Assessment Pattern of Cranium Dysfunction

    • Cranial Osteopathy Assessment – Patterns of Dysfunction

    • what are the symptoms of a compaction?

  • 6

    Cranial Patterns of Fixed in Flexion

    • What is Fixed in Flexion?

    • what are the symptoms of being fixed in flexion?

    • What Flexion looks like on the face of a client/patient

  • 7

    Cranial Pattern of Fixed in Extension

    • What is Fixed in Extension?

    • what are the symptoms of being fixed in extension?

    • What Fixed in Extension looks like on the face of a client/patient

    • Flexion versus Extension

  • 8

    Cranial Pattern of a Torsion

    • What is a Right SBS Torsion ?

    • What is a Left SBS Torsion ?

    • what are the symptoms of a torsion?

    • What a Torsion looks like on the face of a client/patient

  • 9

    Cranial Pattern of a Strain

    • What is a Vertical Strain or Vertical Shear ?

    • What is a Right Lateral strain or Lateral Shear?

    • What is a Left Lateral strain or Lateral Shear?

    • what are the symptoms of a strain or shear?

    • What a Vertical Strain looks like on the face of a client/patient

    • What a Lateral Strain looks like on the face of a client/patient

    • Vertical Strain versus Lateral Strain

  • 10

    Cranial Pattern of a Side Bending Rotation

    • What is a Sidebending Rotation ?

    • Right Side-bending Rotation

    • Left Side-bending Rotation

    • what are the symptoms of a side bending rotation?

  • 11

    Identifying Dysfunctional Patterns using the Cranial Assessment Chart

    • Review of the Advantages of Using a Charting Method in your Practice

    • Using the Cranial Diagram

    • Cranial Osteopathy Assessment Chart

    • Charting Patterns of Dysfunction using the SSB Assessment Chart

    • Homework & Goal of practice

  • 12

    TRAINING VIDEOS - Assessing a client/patient for potential cranial patterns of dysfunction

    • Step 1. Interviewing your client/patient for cranial or craniosacral history

    • Step 2. Assessing the Occiput

    • Step 3. Assessing the Sphenoid

    • Step 4. Assessing the overall energy of the spheno-basilary symphesis

    • Step 5. Charting your findings of the SSB & Identifying a Pattern

    • Step 8. Creating a Treatment Plan according to your Findings

  • 13

    TRAINING VIDEO - Treating the Cranium according to Pattern of Dysfunction

    • Step 1. Treating the Cranium according to pattern of dysfunction

  • 14

    HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS

    • HOMEWORK & Goal of practice

    • Homework : Charting the Cranio-Sacral System

    • Cranial Osteopathy Assessment Chart

    • Homework Goal of practice this week:

    • criteria

  • 15

    About your Instructor

    • Maureen Norah Maher, BA, DO(Qc), DO(MP) Osteopath Practitioner and Educator

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