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This advanced-level curriculum takes us to the next realm of manual therapy. It explores the brain, spinal cord and related pathologies such as closed-head injuries, whiplash, headaches, dyslexia, cerebral palsy, cognitive behavioral dysfunctions, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. Students will learn specific techniques to release brain-centered restrictions as well as the damaging effects that these restrictions cause.
These are advanced classes that use a slightly different paradigm by working extensively with the brain parenchyma, grey and white matter, cranial and spinal nerves and vascular structures rather than mainly on cranial bones and membranes.
The body often aligns itself around these precise structures and they are frequently unaddressed key/dominant tissue restrictions.
This work requires perceptual skills to address tissue microstructures, and we will have specific exercises in the class to help build up these skills. This class will propose different ways to release these structures, and once learned, you will understand how these structures are repeatedly one of the most important and yet least often addressed component of somatic dysfunctions.
For that reason, the techniques you will learn in this class can probably help most of your patients, but it will specifically help any brain and spinal related pathologies including closed head injury, whiplash, headaches, dyslexia, cerebral palsy, cognitive behavioral dysfunctions, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, post-meningitis syndrome, dementia, post-polio syndrom
es, birth difficulties or trauma, feeding difficulties, etc.
“I know that the normal brain lives, thinks, and moves within its own specific membranous articular mechanism.”
- Sutherland WG, "The Cranial Bowl", Free Press, First Edition, 1939, reprint 1994, pp 51.
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