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When we don’t work quite right, the conventional practice is to look at the squeaky wheel. (If the hip hurts, check the hip. If behavior is off, address behavior.) Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn’t, especially related to early development.
What if, instead, we look at how the human machine works? The beauty of taking a machine-based approach is that underneath all the human complexity, we truly are a simple machine! Understanding the way the human machine works, leads to a systematic process for determining what is not working well and how to support it. Hint: It’s often not the squeaky wheel.
In this course, we take you back to basics to review the science fundamentals of how the human ‘machine’ develops and functions. The machine supports breathing, early development, posture, and movement. By improving the foundation of the body’s machine, many seemingly unrelated aspects quickly improve especially related to development, pain, and overall regulation.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the basic science principles defining regulation (pressure, temperature, and volume) and how these support early development, posture, and movement.
2. Define key transitions of regulation related to birth, locomotion, and vertical posture, and why they relate to gaps in development, postural/movement disorders, and pain.
3. Learn three simple movements supporting the basics of regulation and how to appropriately integrate them into treatment strategies.
4. Develop strategies which better match interventions to client history, presentation, and goals. This includes family centered strategies for use with infants and children.
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