How to support postural and functional symmetry in infants

 Baby Moves for Professionals:  Healthy, Strong, Symmetrical

An osteopathic approach to settling, plagiocephaly, and motor skill development (including feeding)

This two-day course provides you with a comprehensive toolkit to start or uplevel your paediatric practice. 

The course will cover current updates on postural asymmetry of infancy (including plagiocephaly) and how to clearly identify and treat preferences in your paediatric patients, which means that you can better diagnose, manage and quickly achieve functional improvements.

You will see the presentations of REAL infants, so that you can get an insight into how varied a paediatric consult can be…  You will learn how you can get creative and have fun when treating infants!

You will be able to practice the holds, positions and techniques on weighted dolls (the closest thing to handing real infants) so that you can feel confident before moving real infants through space and applying therapeutic directions of force in practice.

The Presenter:

Melissa McDougall B.Sc.(Clin.Sc.) M.H.Sc.(Osteo) D.P.O. IBCLC Advanced Paediatric Osteopath (as awarded by Osteopathy Australia in 2021-2024 and 2025-2027)

Melissa traveled to the UK to complete the Diploma of Paediatric Osteopathy (2009-2011), having the privilege to work alongside osteopaths with over 40 years experience.  

She has now been working in paediatrics for almost 20 years, and is passionate about the role of osteopathy supporting infants, young children and their families.

Melissa has helped multiple osteopaths transition into treating infants through private mentoring at her multidisciplinary practice Growing Bones. 

Melissa has completed further studies in:

• The identification and referral pathways for infants at risk of Cerebral Palsy
• The Early Start Denver Model for young children at risk or diagnosed autistic 
• Breastfeeding support- qualified International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
• Orofacial myology and breathing support
• Primitive Reflex Integration (the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP), Move to Learn, Bilateral Integration)
• Therapeutic listening (Johansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation (JIAS)) 

Melissa’s wide scope of practice allows her to teach you an integrative model of osteopathic management of infants with postural asymmetry to achieve a wide range of functional improvements. 

‘It’s a privilege to care for such young humans and work to positively influence their future’

Melissa McDougall

Wouldn’t it be great if you walked away from this weekend course ready to start treating babies?

Baby Moves for Professionals is making that as easy as possible!  You will receive:

• New Infant Intake Form and History Template (and notes on why each field is important)
• Infant Assessment Checklist (a reminder of how you will learn to assess infants in the course)
• Descriptions and pictures of the most effective treatment approaches for infants (a reminder of those you learnt in the course), when to use them, and
• How to adapt some holds for parents as a home activity (formatted to upload in physitrack)

Wouldn’t it be great if you could receive follow up support after this weekend course? 

You can!  Melissa is offering a 3 month period of mentoring support for a limited number of participants attending the course. 

(Details about this offer will be shared closer to the course date and open at the conclusion of the course).

Course Details:

When:

Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of September, 10am-5pm

Location:

Newport Community Hub, 13/15 Mason St, Newport VIC 3015

(5 min walk from Newport Train Station)

Investment:

$990 (incl. GST)

Attention Early Birds!!  $770 (incl. GST) ENDS Monday 30th June

(use code EARLYMOVER at checkout).