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Osteopathic Paediatrics Module 4


  • Coolangatta & Tweed Heads Golf Club 62 Soorley Street Tweed Heads South, NSW, 2486 Australia (map)

Osteopathic Paediatrics - Module 4:

Development of Posture and Gait: Common Paediatric Orthopaedic Conditions

Join us for this in-depth three-day workshop led by Dr George Stylian, Osteopath. This course is specifically designed for practitioners who are already using or want to start using Osteopathy to treat infants and children.

This model will particularly explore how the infant gains postural stability and how it then progresses to develop upright posture. The importance of each step of postural and gait development is fundamental to how a child learns later on in life at school, and how it behaves in the environment it is reared.

Date:

  • 13th, 14th & 15th December, 2025

Venue:

  • Tweed Coolangatta Golf Club, 62 Soorley St, Tweed Heads South NSW 2486

Prerequisites for this course:

  • Osteopathic Paediatrics - Modules 1, 2 & 3

Investment:

  • $1,650 for qualified practitioners* **

  • $1300 for student practitioners* **

  • $825 refresher if previously studied Module 4*


    * Includes morning and afternoon tea, comprehensive course materials, and GST

    ** Payment plans available

Highlights Include:

  • Brief comparison in the anatomy and development of bipedal posture with early hominoids and primates. Blechschmidt’s ideas on upright posture. The importance of the cerebellum in learning and in the establishment of posture and gait. Postural drivers, including intrauterine postural drivers. Brief overview of Dr. Zink’s compensatory pattern and its clinical importance.

  • EMBRYOLOGY of the Limbs, including the unwinding process of the lower limb and how it can lead to common congenital malformations such as club foot.

  • The 6 MAIN DETERMINANTS in the economy of Gait. Gait and hip drive. Short leg - anatomical and apparent. Gait analysis. The effects of heel lifts. How pronation of one foot can lead to apparent short leg and to an ascending postural pattern. Pelvic biomechanics and evaluation of the paediatric lumbar spine, pelvis and sacrum.

  • How crawling is related to the development of peripheral vision, auditory and vestibular inputs, neck reflexes in relation to the ocular, auditory and vestibular mechanisms; before we can get up and walk we need to develop all these other skills in order for gait to develop normally. And of course this process precedes going to school.

  • The primitive and postural reflexes related to the development of posture and gait; development of neurological activities leading to neck and body movements - creeping movements, crawling and its importance for cross patterning, hemispheric and hand dominance, eye and ear dominance.

  • The ANATOMY and FUNCTION of mechanoreceptors, and their relationship to postural and dynamic muscles. The importance of walking barefoot in developing children

  • DESCENDING PATTERNS – how postural distortions from above, eg: congenital torticollis, Sprengel’s deformity, etc, and birth strains, eg: scoliosis capitis, can produce cranial base and neck strains that reflect into the fascial trains of the body.

  • EVALUATION of cranial base strains and their relation to the rest of the posture.

  • Balanced Ligamentous Tension of the limbs, fluid drives of limbs, balanced membranous tension of the posterior cranial fossa and its significance in postural, ocular, vestibular, visual and neural development

  • Most COMMON Orthopaedic Problems seen in the PAEDIATRIC patient; Osteopathic considerations in their treatment and management.

Register Your Interest:

To secure your place, please register via the link below.

We look forward to welcoming you to this transformative course and helping you enhance your expertise in paediatric osteopathy.

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