Biodynamics of Osteopathy – Pediatrics Phase I – Tom Esser D.O.

Children should not be treated like Adults, Learning to be Centered by the Child, Osteopathic Perception to treat Children, Wholeness of the Child, The Meeting Place, Treating the moving child.

The Pediatrics courses are designed in a very unique way so that people with no prior experience in Osteopathy in the Cranial Field can begin to safely and effectively treat the most common of childhood conditions. This curriculum is not about the bones, it does not involve direct or indirect action and is a very intense curriculum that begins with the whole child as an initial sensory experience and continues through multiple phases towards the capacity to use direct action when and if needed.

These courses are open to D.O.’s, M.D.’s, Dentists and Medical Students. Enrollment is on a first-come/first-serve basis. Scheduled offerings are subject to change or cancellation based on enrollment. Faculty reserve the right to deny course enrollment to any individual.

Please note that the Pediatrics Phase curriculum includes the following topics and depending upon the group and the movement of the individual, some topics might be covered in a different order.

Pediatrics Phase I - Children should not be treated like Adults. Learning: to be centered by the child, Osteopathic Perception to treat children, Wholeness of the child, the Meeting place, and treating the moving child.

Pediatrics Phase II - Listening to the Child, Fluid Dynamics of children, Family Circle, Ignition, Thoracic Respiration and Breathing, CNS review, the third ventricle and the Attention in Autism

Pediatrics Phase III - The treatment of Autism, The Normal Child, first breath, Desert Neutral, Flame of Intention, Fine tuning, “Treat me like a New Born”