Paediatrics – hybrid online, distance learning, with clinical and practical sessions on top – London and Bristol / Southwest options.

With the paeds programme you get:

• fantastic and extensive library of video resources
• loads of evidence based clinical insights and osteopathic approaches
• lots of techniques and direct hands on guidance
• attendance at the Bristol teaching clinic – see patient interactions, learn assessments approaches, observe / participate in treatments
• lots of technique insights, all common presentations covered
• red-flags, consenting, communication and general clinical guidance and referral considerations included
• not dedicated to ‘cranial / IVM’ – uses general, gentle osteopathy – suitable for all practitioners, regardless of experience.
• you can do this course and then be able to being your paediatric practice in your own clinic. No prior experience required.
• THIS COURSE IS VERY EXTENSIVE, TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT, BUT IS TOTALLY WORK THE INVESTMENT OF TIME, ENERGY AND FOCUS
• you retain long term access to the learning resources

Full course fee is £2500, START DATE SEPTEMBER 2024 – END DATE JULY 2025. Currently on sale.

THE ONLINE ONLY (NO PRACTICALS) IS £1500 – enrolment possible any time. Year one or year two are the same fee. Year one- enrol any time. Year two online only available from Summer 2025.

Please pay by bank transfer – info in the forms and fees page / section. Please email us on admin@ cnmo.co .uk with the completed relevant forms (on the forms and fees page). Please contact us if you want to pay by card.

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PROGRAMME AVAILABLE FROM ENROLMENT / PURCHASE, CLINIC SESSIONS AND SEMESTERS / ZOOM MEETINGS START FROM SEPTEMBER. CLINICAL AND PRACTICAL AND TUTORIAL DATES ARE BELOW. Download bank details for bacs payments (Barclays Bank)

Dates

Online material sessions start by September 2024, for both years. Material is released monthly, but those who enrol early will get their first section early.

Tutorials

Dates to be confirmed. Year one and year two students have different timings / days for their tutorials.

Clinical / practical dates:

Year one: London – January, 7-12, 2025. Southgate Clinic, Hosted by Ayshe Ibrahim.

Year one: Bristol – 3, 2-day blocks: 10-11 September, 2024; 18-19 February 2025; 27-28 June 2025

Year Two: Barnstaple – one 6 day clinical / practical block – 14 to 19 July 2025.

Fees

Year One: For all online / hybrid distance learning packages, in year one, plus 3 days of technique and 3 days of clinic, plus 9 zoom meetings (live broadcast, one hour, one per month).  (enquire to pay by bank transfer).

£2500.

Year one: PLEASE GET IN TOUCH ASAP TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST / HOLD YOUR PLACE – early bird payment instalments – £2250 in total if first installment of £750 paid by 31 March, 2nd by 1 May, 3rd by 1 July).

Year one: Discount to £2000 if paid in full by 31 March 2024.

Year Two: For all your hybrid distance learning online resources, 6 days of clinic / practicals, plus 9 zoom meetings (live broadcast, one hour, one per month)

£2500. 

Year two: PLEASE GET IN TOUCH ASAP TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST / HOLD YOUR PLACE – early bird payment instalments – £2250 in total if first installment of £750 paid by 31 March, 2nd by 1 May, 3rd by 1 July).

Year two: Discount to £2000 if paid in full by 31 March 2024.

Certificate / Diploma – 

This is a wide ranging and highly detailed programme covering a range of the most common paediatric conditions presenting to osteopaths and comparable manual therapists, as well as covering pathology, risk factors, communication, red flags, developmental dynamics and much more.

The developmental, learning and growth challenges for children can be considerable and whilst many infants, toddlers and older children sail wonderfully through their early years, for many, it can be a distressing, awkward or traumatising period.  No one wishes to see children suffer unnecessarily, and many issues arise through poor coordination, weaker muscles, poor posture, illness and injury.  A gentle hands on approach can be key to helping children navigate childhood with the fewest negative effects possible!

This is very extensive, evidence backed programme, which aims to take you from where you are to a deeper level. Helping to rationalise your clinical approaches, to explore the neuroscience, physiology, anatomical dynamics and function of paediatrics, development, growth and social engagement are key components of this course. You don’t need to know any ‘cranial’ / involuntary mechanism work to engage with paediatrics – although if you do there is still plenty in this course which will inform your personal technique style. But, the course is designed to develop clinical protocols from first principles – and then to determine how children can be helped. All elements of common presentations across paediatrics from infants to adolescents, and this programme covers core elements of this things you will need to explore this field of care in more depth and with greater clarity. EXP[LANATORY VIDEO:

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Programme aims

CERTIFICATE SUMMARY (Year one)

• ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
• AUTONOMICS, NEUROENDOCRINE, HPA, IMMMUNE AND SOMATOVISCERAL INTEGRATION
• MICROBIOME AND IMMUNE CONSIDERATIONS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
• INTRA-UTERINE ISSUES
• BIRTH, BONDING, BREASTFEEDING, ORAL FUNCTION, DIGESTION AND BREATHING, unsettledness and general health
• DEVELOPMENT OF POSTURE, MOVEMENT, COORDINATION AND BALANCE, REFLEXES
• CHANGING ANATOMY OF THE HEAD, BODY AND TORSO, STOMATOGNATHIC INTEGRATION
• CHANGING SHAPE AND TORSION IN MUSCULOSKELETAL FACTORS AND INTRAOSSEOUS STRAIN
• ONLINE PLATFORM AND TUTORIAL SUPPORT

YEAR TWO – COMPLETE THIS YEAR TO GAIN THE PAEDS DIPLOMA

• The second year focuses on three major themes: early infant care, global development and visceral function, ad then neurodevelopment / neurodiversity and children with complex needs.
• Focused dynamics of early infant care – detailed dynamics for oral motor function, infant feeding, tongue tie considerations
• Building on the overviews of information covered in the Certificate year, a deeper review and analysis of a range of conditions, critical appraisal of the potential for osteopathic contributions to care are given.
• Clinical evidence, outcome measures and clinical review are all covered, to ensure practice audit and inter professional communication are supported
• Further considerations of assessment and practical approaches for fluid systems and visceral care are discussed, and the continued relationship between movement and function are discussed

KEY SKILLS AND PRACTICE APPROACHES COVERED IN BOTH YEARS:

• CLINICAL ASSESSMENT REVIEW = CONSIDERING ALL THE FACTORS WITHIN THE CERTIFICATE CURRICULUM AND TAKING THEM TO THE NEXT LEVEL:
• MANAGEMENT OF VARIOUS CONDITIONS EG feeding and latch dynamics, plagio and movement disorders, unsettledness, coordination, EENT function, bladder and bowel dynamics, orthopaedic, neurodiversity and body image dynamics. NB, these are all introduced at Certificate level, but are now reviewed much more critically.
• CLINICAL PROTOCOLS – WHAT THEY ARE AND ARE NOT
• OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT
• UNDERSTANDING ORTHODOX MANAGEMENT AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUES, imaging, diagnostic criteria, screening
• PRACTICAL TECHNIQUE INTENSIVE CLASSES
• TUTORIAL SUPPORT
• EXTENSIVE EVIDENCE REVIEW AND CASE ANALYSIS
• HELPING YOU WORKSHOP COMPLEX PRESENSTATIONS
• DEVELOPING YOUR PERSONAL CLINCAL PROFESSIONAL FIELD OF CARE
• ONLINE PLATFORM AND TUTORIAL SUPPORT (PLUS ABOVE PRACTICAL SESSIONS)
• CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS