Dear Friends,

In September 2010 we will start a new training program for The Osteopathic Treatment of Children. The courses will take place at our Swiss Osteopathic Center for Kids in Crans Montana, Switzerland.  2 years ago we started our first program that has grown to be a wonderful “meeting place” for osteopaths from all over the world to share, learn and treat children together.  The courses are designed to enable registered osteopaths to develop into safe and proficient pediatric practitioners with high–level critical reasoning and practical treatment skills. It secures their knowledge base, and makes them aware of its limitations.

Our program for this new Osteopathic Treatment of Children has been assembled with Love.  The program will give you the opportunity to learn and work with some great teachers from all over the world. All of them having years of experience treating children. All the teaching units in this program are being led by osteopathic experts committed in service to the treatment of families and children.  It is the first time that so many teachers and students of Osteopathy have worked together to build up one curriculum, which will serve as a reference in pediatric osteopathic medicine.

The curriculum is based on the biodynamic model as designed by our President, Dr. James Jealous D.O. Dr. Jealous will be actively supporting the program. He designs the curriculum, follows up the teaching and teaches some modules himself. The fundamental courses will be given by Werner Van Camp D.O., who has been a personal friend and student of Dr. Jealous for many years.  Additionally, several members of the Biodynamics Faculty will present the study of the Biodynamic approach of the treatment of children.  Supportive assessment will be both in the form of case history-based reflective assignments, and sharing in the teaching clinic.  These written assignments will form the basis for review and discussion of the previous topic at each subsequent teaching session, adding depth and continuity to learning.

Teaching topics will include:

• An osteopathic approach to pre-conception care, to include issues of fertility and assisted conception. 

• Ante natal care, of mother and baby. To include issues of fetal positioning, and self help measures for labor and delivery. 

• Birthing and Issues arising from fetal “malpresentation”. 

• Case history taking appropriate to the child. 

• Engaging children and the family in a clinical/treatment setting, to include appropriate use of language and “management” of the complex presentation. 

• Osteopathic and clinical assessment of the newborn, pre-school, school and adolescent child.

• Osteopathic differential diagnosis on children from newborn till the age of 18.

• Assessment and osteopathic management of respiratory presentations in children.

• Assessment and osteopathic management of infectious presentations in children.

• Assessment and osteopathic management of orthopedic presentations in children.

• Assessment and osteopathic management of neurological presentations in children.

• Assessment and osteopathic management of trauma related issues in children.

• Assessment and osteopathic management of congenital/genetic issues in children.

• Failure to thrive, and growth and development issues in children.

• Osteopathic support of the premature child.

• Osteopathic approaches in behavioral issues. 

• Osteopathic treatment principles appropriate to the engagement of children.

By demand of future participants, the new program will be presented in a form of three 4-day modules a year. This training program is unique in the world of osteopathic treatment for children. Woven around a practical day of treatment of patients in our children’s clinic will be some 20 hours of lecturing, reflective learning, study and time to explore the subtle nature of the exchange between osteopath and child. Completion of the entire curriculum will take 6 years. This may seem long, but there is a lot to study and experience together, and “time goes fast if you have fun” as our actual participants say.  The schedule and timetabling for the teaching has been set at a tempo designed to maximize the learning potential from the three and a half day training units.

There is no better osteopathic teacher than the patient, a child.

As our founder Dr Still said “The role of the osteopath is to find Health in the patient, anyone can find disease.”

If you are interested in this program, please find the attached subscription form

and return to us as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Werner Van Camp D.O.

Course Director

Dr. James Jealous D.O.

President

Rébecca Mudry Van Camp D.O.

Administrator

Werner Van Camp