Birth Trauma and Skull Base. Intraosseous Injuries in Pediatrics

9–11 March 2012, Saint-Petersbourg

Marie-Odile Fessenmeyer is an osteopathic physician, a member of the French Ostheopatic Register who graduated from European School of Osteopathy (Maidstone, England). She is an international lecturer and the author of  “Bone, an Element of Diagnostics”. She is a member of Association of Interdisciplinary Research for Head and Neck Abnormalities headed by Jean Delaire, Professor Emeritus of the University of Nantes (France).
 

Seminar Objective:

Why we must study skull base?

Each birth reflects our origin story. Understanding of a skull base phylogenesis is a fundamental part of osteopathic diagnostics in both newly born and adults. Skull base analysis is essential for finding the right therapeutic approach and ontogenesis is crucial for this approach. Moreover, an internal analysis of each bone of the human skeleton in the context of the skull base evolution is the element that unites the efforts of osteopaths and maxillofacial specialists.

Seminar Program

Osteopathic solutions for correction of skull base injuries which is the most common birth trauma were demonstrated at the seminar, phylogenetic and ontogenetic studies in osteopathic practice were presented. A sacrum-skull-face approach was developed. Other topics of the seminar included osteopathic diagnostics based on personal sensations and general knowledge and applying all approaches developed in pediatric care.

1. Morphogenesis concept: definition, development of skeletal parts. A concept of skeletal integrity and functional skeletal integrity.
2. Sacrum-skull-face relation.
3. A live bone concept (tensegrity, flexibility, plasticity, density).
4. Analysis of phylogenetic evolution of intersphenoid synchondrosis. Exocranial morphogenesis with regard to of development of postural and oral and facial function. Endocranial evolution with regard to brain development. Relation between evolutions of internal and external skull surfaces. Applied aspects.
5. Bone as a “structure at the mercy of life”. Hierarchy of functions. The Rule of the Artery by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still.
6. Osteopathic diagnostics based on ontogenetic evolution of skull base.
7. Pediatric osteopathy. Plagiocephaly. Ear Nose Throat diseases. Abnormalities of behavior, speech and sleep. Cooperation with orthodontists and dentists (analysis of skull X-ray images).
8. Osteopathic diagnostics and treatment. Causes of damages of a bone being an element of a child’s skull: genetic and traumatic factors. Unique methods of skull base correction.