a Transformative Manipulation Course: Learn to Handle Tall and Heavy Patients with Ease, by Lucia Pereira

12 - 14 December 2024
How to manage patients that are taller then the therapist?

We are delighted to invite you to an exclusive 2.5-day manipulation course that promises to elevate your skills and transform your practice. This course is delivered by an exceptionally experienced therapist, renowned not only for her expertise but also for her remarkable ability to handle tall and heavy patients effortlessly.

Meet Your Instructor: Our instructor stands at just 1.46 meters, yet her ability to manipulate even the tallest and heaviest of patients with ease is truly inspirational. Her unique techniques and methods have been honed over years of practice, and she is excited to share her insights with you.

Course Highlights:

1. Master Effective Techniques: Learn specialized manipulation techniques designed to handle taller and heavier patients. Understand the principles of leverage, body mechanics, and positioning to maximize your effectiveness.

2. Hands-On Practice: Engage in practical sessions where you'll apply the techniques under the guidance of our experienced instructor. Gain confidence in your ability to manage patients of all sizes with ease.

3. Efficiency and Efficacy: Discover how to perform manipulations efficiently, reducing physical strain on yourself while ensuring effective outcomes for your patients.

4. Personalized Instruction: Benefit from the instructor’s personalized attention, tailored to address your specific challenges and improve your manipulation skills.

5. Networking and Collaboration: Connect with fellow therapists, share experiences, and learn from each other in a supportive and collaborative environment.

You are invited to sleep for free at Osteon on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night. Bring your sleeping gear and breakfast and don't forget your drinks for the evening connection moments.

Course Details:

Duration: 2.5 days
Location: Osteon
Price: 525 euro
Inclusions: Comprehensive course materials, hands-on training, lunch on Thursday and Friday and a certificate of completion.

This course is perfect for therapists who wish to expand their capabilities and enhance their proficiency in handling patients of all sizes. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn from one of the best in the field.

Register online or contact us for more information.

We look forward to welcoming you to this enriching and empowering course.

Warm regards,

Jory Pauwels
Principal Osteon

Modification that work, demonstrated by a 1m46 tall instructor

A postgraduate course, specifically designed with all the modifications that really works in the positioning and the focalization, so that you can thrust easily any patients that are taller, bigger, stronger or heavier than you with minimal strength.

All practical session will be individual supervised allowing every attendee to:

-       Progress their spinal manipulations techniques’ skills by improving patient’s positioning, and improving osteopath own body use

-       Identify and overcome what could prevent the achievement of the thrust

-       Maximizing the use of their own body so the use of strength is at its strict minimum and to stay focus at only one vertebral level

-       Maintaining a specific focalization and palpation, prior and throughout the realization of the technique

Each technique will be sequentially demonstrated with focus on the key points and why. Followed by individually supervised practical session

Day 1: 9-18h

Presentation of the course and its objectives

Sequential demonstration of the lumbar-roll from the positioning of the patient to the thrust

Sequential demonstration of the SI mobilization/manipulation

Day 2: 9-18h

Demonstration of the hip mobilization from the lumbar-roll position

Sequential demonstration of the Dog technique from the C/D to D/L

Sequential demonstration of the thoracic lift

Day 3: 9-13h

Safety indication for HVLAT in cervical spine, presentation demonstration and practical sessions step by step for the cervical wheel, + indication and contraindication

Sequential demonstration of the cervical wheel, from positioning of the patient to the thrust from the Occ-C1 to the C7/T1

Meet a great person with a small posture

Lucia Pereira is an osteopath PGDO BSc Hons Ost DO MROF, graduated in 1996 from the European School of Osteopathy. Thanks to her small height and weight, she had to learn to adjust each technique in order to be able to master the HVLAT’s. She keeps training herself in the different fields of osteopathy and other manual therapies. Since a few years she demonstrates and lecture all that she learned and developed in a post-graduated courses manipulation techniques. She is an experienced teacher, still teaching in several school of osteopathy in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and now in Belgium.

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