Module 5: Infant health and illness 2-7 years
- Growth, nutrition, play and sleep: rhythms in childhood development.
- Illness as an opportunity to grow.
- Emergency osteopathic care for acute childhood illness and working with other systems of health care (surgery & drugs, homeopathy)
- Chronic illness: how to change cycles of infection, fatigue, anxiety in the family.
- Bones, marrow and immunity
- Emergence of the child’s health with gesture, teething, communication - signals for families and practitioners.
- Emergence of the child in society- language and self.
- 15 hours CPD per module
Weekend Timetable
Saturday and Sunday
Start 9.30
Lunch 12.30-2
Finish 5.30
Patient Clinic
Saturday 4pm Demonstration with patient/s by presenter
Sunday 2.30-3.30 Participants practice with patient/s
References for further reading
Frymann V M, 1998, The Collected Papers of Viola M. Frymann, DO: Legacy of osteopathy to Children, American Academy of Osteopathy, Indianapolis, IN
Moeckel E & Mitha N (Eds), 2008, Textbook of Pediatric Osteopathy, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, London
Pinkham JR et al, (Eds), 2005, Pediatric Dentistry: infancy through Adolescence, 4th Ed, Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA
Rudolf MCJ & Levene MI,1999, Paediatrics and Child health, Blackwell Science Ltd, London
Sergueff N, 2007, Cranial osteopathy for Infants, Children and Adolescents: A practical handbook, Chirchill Livingstone Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA
Stern D, 2006, The interpersonal world of the infant: a view from psychoanalysis and development psychology, Karnac Books Ltd, London
