Center for Continuing Education of Osteopathy & Manual Therapy

If you would like to learn how to incorporate Cranial Osteopathy into your physiotherapy practice, this online course is for you!

Based upon the live course that Maureen Hannah Maher has been teaching to Osteopaths, Physiotherapists, and Manual Therapists for several years, this course is now available to you online in a self-paced format.

This course is also a pre-requisite to 

Pediatric Osteopathy Training for Indian Physiotherapists 

or

Osteopathic Approach to Treating Obstetrical Patients Throughout all of the Stages of Pregnancy for Indian Physiotherapists

Any Osteopathy Treatment protocols you learn where Cranial Techniques are an important part of your Treatment, such as certain stages of Pregnancy including during the most before actual labour, the Post-Partum stage.  Most Pediatric Dysfunctions such as Torticolis, Digestive Dysfuctions, and Latching & Feeding Difficulties require Cranial Treatments to successfully address these conditions.

You can enroll in this course concurrently  with either the Pediatrics or Obstetrics course if you have additional free time to learn both.

CAN I AFFORD THiS COURSE?

You can benefit from our twelve month partial payment plan that makes enrolling in all of our courses easy and accessible.  Please note that all ouf our online courses are listed in USD.

At $15 USD per month paid over twelve months, this course will easily fit into your budget at approximately 1220 Indian rupees per month for twelve months.  

If you wish to be awarded your Certificate of Completion within six months, from the Center for Continuing Education of Osteopathy In Toronto, Canada, you can chose our six month partial payment plan at the bottom of this page.

About this course:

As a self paced course, you can enroll now, download the Workbook,  and start learning immediately.   You can progress through each chapter at the speed that suits you.  Each  chapter contains new material that builds upon the next, and contains audio lessons, demonstration videos, quizzes, and homework assignments, that allow you to integrate what you have learnt, not only theoretically, but in a hands-on practical way.  

This course is estimated to be 30 hours, with 15 theoretical learning hours and 15 hands-on practical hours.  Upon enrollment, you have access to all of the course material for two full calendar years, allowing you watch all 32 training videos as many times as you want and review the course material at your own pace.  The training videos have been digitally mastered to contain several close-ups, so that you can get a clear visual of the hand placement needed for each technique.

What you will learn:

This course will teach you the important Anatomy, Physiology, and Biomechanics of the Cranial Mechanism.  You will begin to develop your palpation skills to locate each bone, suture, and whether each bone in the Cranial Mechanism has full Amplitude, and how to correct Restricted range of motion . An emphasis on Hand Placement and refining your palpation skills is taught through many instructional videos.  You will come away from this course having a solid foundation for understanding and assessing the various aspects of the Cranial Mechanism and how to integrate Cranial Techniques into your Physiotherapy Treatments.  Any Osteopathy Treatment protocols you learn where Cranial Techniques are an important part of your Treatment, such as certain stages of Pregnancy including during the most before actual labour, the Post-Partum stage.  Most Pediatric Dysfunctions such as Torticolis, Digestive Dysfuctions, and Latching & Feeding Difficulties require Cranial Treatments to successfully address these conditions.

The Workbook:

You will be able to download and print the Workbook that accompanies the live  version of this course immediately upon enrollment. 

Certificates of  Completion

A Certificate of  Completion issued by the Center for Continuing Education of Osteopathy and Manual Thearapy in Toronto, Canada will be issued to you upon successful completion of this course and after all enrollment fees are paid.  Your Certificate is valid for 30 hours, and is based upon passing the  short Quiz found at the end of each chapter, as well as the hands-on Practice assignments.  You can submit your Certificates to your professional associations for continuing education credits,  display it in your clinic to reassure your clients that you are proficient in the Cranial Techniques you are using, or to fulfill the pre-requisite requirement to enroll in our Pediatrics or Obstetrics online courses.  If you wish to receive your Certificate as quickly as possible, chose the six month partial payment plan instead of the twelve months plan, as Certificates are awarded after the course enrollment fee is paid in full.

Who this course is for:

This course is suitable for  all Manual Therapists and Physiotherapists who need or want to learn the basics of Cranial Osteopathy incorporating it into their Manual Therapy or Physiotherapy Practice.  Prior courses in Manual Therapy Manipulation or Mobilization of a biomechanical nature will be useful for you when taking this course.  

If you have never studied the tangible, anatomical model of Cranial Osteopathy, and take a structured,  physiological approach in your Physiotherapy Practice, understanding the Cranial Mechanism and learning how to apply clinical assessments and basic Cranial Treatments that have a broad base on application is for you.

Physiotherapists who enjoy learning how to incorporate a greater variety of manual therapy techniques into their practice, albeit with a very gentle approach, will enjoy learning these valuable skills.

Using detailed, close up videos, your Instructor will teach you how to treat the Cranium from a biomechanical perspective and will provide more tangible and predictable results within your treatments.  

What skills you will take away from this course:

Through this course, you will learn to identify & treat all the major components of the Cranial Mechanism.  You will learn the outline and relative positioning of each cranial bone, the location of each suture, how the cranial mechanism works, how the venous sinus system drains, and more.  You will learn how to treat and correct the cranial mechanism,  how to balance its rhythms in order to be able to provide relief for your patient using a very tangible, scientific, anatomically based approach 

Although this is Part I and designed to give the anatomical and functional basics, you will come away with sufficient knowledge to treat basic conditions such as congestion headaches, fatigue, and includes cranial osteopathy into your treatments where full body alignments is crucial for symptom relief.  

Although this course is designed to give the anatomical and functional basics, you will come away with sufficient knowledge to treat basic conditions such as congestion headaches, fatigue, and includes cranial osteopathy into your treatments where full body alignments is crucial for symptom relief.  

The  downloads and take-away tools:

At the beginning of the course, you can download the printable Workbook.  Then, each chapter contains download of explanations how to perform various assessment or treatment techniques that you can use to guide you through your hands-on practice.  You will then submit these practice sheets as part of your homework requirement to achieve your Certificate.

You also get Unique Assessment Sheets that are very useful tools help you learn how to palpate for and diagnose each component of the Cranial Mechanism in a step by step manner.  These Assessment Sheets help take the guesswork out of palpation and diagnosis.  

This learning approach was designed by Maureen Hannah Maher, the course Instructor, Cranial Osteopath and Massage Therapist, for over fifteen years. 

 Maureen is also the author and instructor of Cranial Osteopathy Part 2 Continuing Fundamentals, which is planned for end of 2023, and the complete Advanced Cranial Pathologies series that she teaches in live seminars and workshops to learners who wish to build on the fundamentals of this course and go on to effectively treatment more complex but common cranial pathologies.  But to do this, one needs to start with the fundamentals, which you will acquire in this course.

What you will need:

Access to a printer to print the Workbook and Worksheets for practice

Order a practice skull like the one you see in the videos.  They can be easily ordered through online stores like Amazon.in

Three different people in order to practice the skills and techniques that you will learn in each chapter and in order to complete each homework assignment.

Join us online and learn how Cranial Osteopathy can be incorporated into your Physiotherapy practice today!

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