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7 & 8 June 2025 - Cranial Field Reloaded

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Are you interested in the idea of cranial osteopathy but can't quite get your head around it? This course examines the mechanics of the tissues and structures involved and critically appraises both existing models and current evidence in the field.

Course Title 7 & 8 June 2025 – Cranial Field Reloaded
Qualification CPD
Duration 14 CPD Hours
Institution Code A65
Start Date 7 & 8 June 2025
Location London Campus

Overview


14-hours CPD

Registration: 09:00-09:30

Course Schedule: Saturday 09:30-17:30 & Sunday 09:30-17:30

 

Course Details


Explanatory models in cranial osteopathy are either outdated, in conflict with current evidence or way too subtle to be grounded on any evidence-informed theory.

This course is designed as an invitation to consider the head under a different perspective, which bears the advantage to be compliant with current knowledge in the field of tissue mechanics and to open up to new perspectives in the manual approach of the bony tissue in general, and more particularly the head.

Summary of Osteopathic Practice Standards (updated) covered in this course:

A Communication and patient partnership – A3,
B Knowledge, skills and performance – B1, B3, B4
D Professionalism – D1, D3

Learning outcomes:

  • Get acquainted with the basic principles of material mechanics in order to get access to the relevant literature reviewing the stresses and strains of the skull.
  • Understand the mechanical behaviour of bones, how they distort, under which load and to what extent.
  • Get updated about the most recent findings in matter of cerebrospinal fluid circulation and micro-movements of the brain and be able to critically appraise their relevance in our daily practice.
  • Experience a way to approach manually the bony tissue that would be compliant with current knowledge.
  • Understand how this approach could fit in a biopsychosocial framework.
  • Figure out the respective role of the key figures in the development of the current cranial approach in osteopathy.

Course suitability:

This course is suitable for osteopaths, chiropractors, physiotherapists who are looking for an update in the field of cranial osteopathy and/or are looking for another way to include the head in their daily practice. Existing cranial experience is not necessary to attend this course.

Timetable & Course Content

Day 1

09:00-09:30  Registration

09:30-11:00  Theory – The cranial sutures: roles and evolution through life

11:00-11:30  Break

11:30-12:30  Theory – Basic principles of material mechanics – part 1

12:30-13:30  Lunch (included)

13:30-14:00  Theory – Basic principles of material mechanics – part 2

14:00-14:45  Theory – The mechanical properties of living tissues, in-vivo distortions of bones

14:45-15:30  Practical – Palpatory exercises on the bony tissue: the tibia

15:30-16:00  Break

16:00-17:30  Theory – Multi-stability, fatigue failures, reversible and irreversible states, how these notions may fit in an informed biopsychosocial model

Day 2

09:00-09:30  Summary of the previous day

09:30-11:00  Theory – The mechanical properties and behaviour of the head

11:00-11:30  Break

11:30-12:30  Practical – Palpatory exercises on the head – part 1

12:30-13:30  Lunch (included)

13:30-14:00  Practical – Palpatory exercises on the head – part 2

14:00-15:00  Theory – Critical appraisal of the Sutherland model, and historical perspective

15:00-16:00  Practical – Palpatory exercises on the posterior part of the head, the vault and the face

16:00-16:30  Break

16:30-17:30  Theory – Movements of the brain and the cerebrospinal fluid, history and current state of research

Recommended pre-reading:

Gabutti, M. & Draper-Rodi, J. Osteopathic decapitation: Why do we consider the head differently from the rest of the body? New perspectives for an evidence-informed osteopathic approach to the head. International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 17, 1–7 (2014).

Marco Gabutti

Marco initially graduated as an industrial engineer before reconsidering direction and moving into osteopathy. He has been working for five years with Pierre Tricot and assisted him in teaching an original functional approach called “approche tissulaire”. Marco taught basic physics and then cranial osteopathy in different osteopathic colleges.

Together with Jerry Draper-Rodi he got a first article published in the IJOM inviting the osteopathic community to rethink the way they consider the head in their teachings and daily practice. He is currently working with his wife, an osteopath too, in Normandy. He regularly teaches CPD courses about the possible evolutions of the cranial model and, together with Jerry Draper-Rodi and Laurent Fabre, teaches on an integrated course about the biopsychosocial model and the latest advances in pain management.

How can I contact the organiser with any questions?

For more information contact the CPD team at cpd@uco.ac.uk.

You will be emailed information about the course approximately 1 week before the seminar.

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