Fluids: Osteopathic concepts; Management of dysfunction; Treatment approaches and techniques

Presented by Richard Twining

Saturday 18th – Sunday 19th May 2019 – £300 (includes lunch and refreshments)

The World Health Organisation recognises the Osteopathic 5-Model Concept as making

a unique contribution to health care. One of the models, the respiratory/circulatory (or

fluid) model, is often under-represented in UK formal osteopathic education, despite being

important to much of A.T. Still’s teaching and writing and being an effective treatment

approach to tissue dysfunction. Fluids comprise some 60-65% of the body and they are

essential to the understanding of tensegrity biomechanics. Taking many forms – blood,

lymph, extracellular, intracellular, digestive, serous and CSF – they are moved by a number

of mechanisms, which need to be understood for effective treatment.

This highly practical post-graduate weekend will explore the importance of the concepts,

main restriction points, and the effectiveness of fluid based approaches and techniques.

As the bulk of fluids are in the visceral system, some knowledge of visceral osteopathy

would be an advantage but not essential.