Description

Osteopathic Approaches

This advanced workshop guides participants through Carrie’s unique approach to accessing periosteum & bone, and how to integrate this into a deeper understanding of Myofascial practice. Therapists who are proficient in Myofascial Release, and have plenty of clinical experience in a medical massage practice will most benefit from this class, as a certain level of palpative sensitivity and assessment ability is necessary to fully delve into this topic successfully.

Awareness of how to palpate periosteum & bone is cultivated, with sensitivity to all tissues, progressing through each layer from superficial fascia, to the deepest layer of bone. Techniques used will include periosteal pin & drag, bone compression, bending & C-bowing, and will be used throughout the body in the cranium, vertebrae, scapulae, clavicles, ribcage, humerus, radius/ulna complex, ilium, ischium, sacrum, femur, tibia/fibula complex, patella, and bones of the hands and feet.

Joint mobilizations (NOT chiropractic in nature but up to grade 4 within RMT scope of practice) will also be covered, to help the manual therapist understand how to most effectively improve mobility, without straining sensitive ligamentous, fascial, and muscular structures.