Global Visceral and Osteopathic Medicine

This course really builds on the visceral basics - getting you to understand many aspects of visceral pain, vagal dynamics, mindfulness, breathing, body mapping and problems with scars and adhesions.  It helps you appreciate all the adjuncts and approaches necessary when dealing with a variety of visceral dynamics and begins to illustrate how to approach some visceral conditions . help in their management.   It goes into many aspects of the osteopathic medicine approach, looks at potential for healthcare contribution across a range of healthcare presentations, and despite the fact that osteopaths 'look for health, not disease' it is still vital to understand the science behind complex health challenges and how physiology and homeostasis, movement and anatomy all converge to enable the person to function at their best.

CONTENTS IN DETAIL:

This course contains a series of 34 modules; the content of each module is outlined below:

Module 1: Osteopathic Medicine

This module consists of 2 videos; video 1 is 1 hour 22min , video 2 is 1 hour 30 min.

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• 2 articles for study & reflection

Module 2: Fluid versus neural circuitry - more comments about 'CHEMICAL' BARRIERS

This module contains 3 videos with a total viewing time of approximately 1 hour 50 min

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• 2 links to articles for further reading

Module 3: Wider perspectives!

This module contains 2 videos with a total viewing time of approximately 2 hours.

Module 4: Exchange and metabolism - cardiorespiratory interface, breathing and airflow and dynamics of arousal / sleep

This module consists of three lectures; lecture 1 is on the Upper airway spaces (3 hours), lecture 2  is on the lower respiratory tract, the cardiorespiratory interface and the metabolism with respiration and exchange( 2 hours 44min), lecture 3 is on the Vagus & sympathetic & parasympathetic integration (2 hours 48 min). In addition, there is one technique video (3 min 21 sec)  plus 5 supplementary videos with a total viewing time of approximately 45 min.

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• downloadable handouts for lectures 1, 2 & 3 (notes & 30+  links for further reading) and an online viewable slideshow of all the powerpoint slides of each lecture

Module 5: Behavioural state regulation, arousal and sleep

This module consists of 2 lectures; Lecture 1: Arousal and State Regulation is 2 hours 33 min & lecture 2 : Infant behavioural states / States of Consciousness is 2 hour 22min.

Module 6: Nutrition, digestion, assimilation, microbiome

This module consists of 2 videos with a total viewing time of 1 hour 5 min.

Module 7: Metabolic Load and pro-inflammatory State

This module contains 1 link for supplementary reading.

Module 8: More on NEURAL BARRIERS

A module containing a 1 hour 12 min video on visceral pain

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• 4 links to articles and resources for further reading

Module 9: Visceral communication, visceral pain signalling, adjusting visceral function to demands of the whole

This module contains a lecture of 1 hour 47 min in addition to 3 supplementary videos of 15 min, 30  min and 1 hour 40 min.

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• 4 links to articles and resources for further reading

Module 10: The endocrine system and the immune system

This module contains 3 videos with a total viewing time of approximately 2 hours (including one technique video)

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• one link to resource for further reading

Module 11: Neuroendocrine immune interactions including the HPA axis

A module containing 2 videos of I hour and 16 min.

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• 2 links to articles for further reading

Module 12: Interoception, proprioception and exteroception - the developing and internal self through interchanges with the outside world

This module consists of a 3 part lecture: part 1: 33 min, part 2: 1 hour 37 min, part 3: 1 hour 24 min.

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• one link to resource for further reading

Module 13: Stress, the viscera, disease and systemic dysfunction

This module contains no lectures. However there are 9 links to resources for study and reflection.

Module 14: Social Engagement, polyvagal theory, and conflicts within the system-understanding Vagal Tone

This module contains 1 video of 28 min

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• 3 links to articles for further reading

Module 15: Emotions, safety, trauma, stress, chronic illness, pain

This module consists of a 31 min video on the Immune system and Stress plus a recording of a Q&A session on Somatic experiencing and bodywork-1 hour 35 min.

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• 4 links to resources for further reading

Module 16: General Adaption Syndrome and Allostasis, central sensitisation and nervous 'irritability'

This module contains 2 videos of 35 min & 45 min.

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• 1 link to follow for supplementary reading

Module 17: Gerontology and the ageing process

This module contains a 9 min video

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• 2  links to articles for further reading

Module 18: Touch

This module contains a 3 min video

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• 2  links to articles for further reading

Module 19: On scars and skin - our outer layers and their function

This module contains 3 videos with a total viewing time of approximately 50 min.

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• 7 links to extra resources for further reading

Module 20: Co-regulation and manual therapy - including the role of the therapist

This module consists of  4 videos, 2 of which are short (less than 5 min each) and 2 much longer ones of 1 hour 54 min & 1 hour 4 min.

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• a link to an interview on regulation and the polyvagal story.

Module 23: Body scan and 3D assessment

Module 24: 'Physiological' care plans - So, which visceral 'disease' were we talking about?

Module 25: Breathing dysfunction, asthma, other respiratory conditions

This module contains a video talk of 1 hour 30 min

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• 1 link to an article for further reading

Module 26: Dyssynergia - eg bladder, bowel, diaphragmatic, abdominal....

This module contains a link to one resource for further reading

Module 27: Irritable bowel, functional lower GIT disorders

Module 28: Upper GIT conditions

Module 29: Liver and small intestine

Module 30:The urinary system

Module 31: Male pelvic health

Module 32: Female pelvic heath

Module 33: Coccyx and rectum

Module 34:Organs and senses in the head - EENT

 This module contains a 22 min short video on balance and sensory integration.