Joseph Gill-Lussier, DO

Instructor:

Course Description: This immersive workshop is designed for manual therapists aiming to deepen their clinical practice through the integration of Tai Chi, Qigong, and embodiment practices. Focused on enhancing interoceptive awareness and the effectiveness of care, the workshop combines theoretical knowledge with extensive practical application, offering a holistic approach to patient treatment.

Learning Objectives: Participants will:

• Gain proficiency in Tai Chi and Qigong movements and understand their application in osteopathy.
• Develop skills in alignment, breathing, movement, relaxation, and attention to improve patient care.
• Learn to apply embodiment practices as tools for enhancing clinical practice and patient outcomes.

Course Modules:

• Foundations of Embodiment in Osteopathy: Introduction to the principles of Tai Chi, Qigong, and their relevance to osteopathic practice.
• Practical Applications of Tai Chi and Qigong: Hands-on practice of movements and techniques.
• Pain Management Strategies: Comprehensive strategies combining osteopathy with interdisciplinary approaches for effective pain management.
• Personal Development in Clinical Practice Exercises and reflective practices aimed at enhancing the therapist's presence and effectiveness.

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to…

PRACTICE breathing, relaxation, alignment, attention, and mobilization exercises during Osteopathic care.

UNDERSTAND the postural impacts on health, postural oscillations, the balance system, the center of mass, and the center of pressure.

OBSERVE AND USE postural balance and alignment during Osteopathic care.

OBSERVE AND USE the tension-release component during Osteopathic care to promote tissue dialogue.

USE breathing in the context of treatment.

EXPERIMENT with new ways to perceive and move their bodies from the center of mass and transfer this experience to the Osteopathic care partnership with their patients.

EXPERIMENT with moving their attention within their own body and hands with practical exercises and APPLY it in Osteopathic care.

PRACTICE some Tuinas and mudra exercises (somatosensory stimulation). PRACTICE Qigong movements.

Methodology: The course employs a blend of lectures, practical workshops, facilitated by experts in the field. Interactive sessions and guest lectures enrich the learning experience, while personal development activities aim to deepen the therapeutic connection.

Target Audience This course is intended for osteopathic practitioners, manual therapists, and healthcare professionals seeking to incorporate holistic and embodiment practices into their treatment repertoire.

Additional information:

Course schedules: From 9.00 am to 6.00 pm

Location: CCO College d'études Ostéopathiques, 550 Av. Beaumont suite 500, H3N 1V1 Montréal (Québec)

Joseph Gill-Lussier, DO

Instructor:

Cervicogenic disorders (neck pain, headache, tinnitus, dizziness) represent a frequent reason for consultation. This course aims at deepening knowledge and providing osteopaths with a variety of approaches for patients with complex care trajectories who have already consulted osteopaths and other therapists without results. The literature on chronic neck pain, cervicogenic headaches and cervicogenic dizziness will be presented in order to inform clinicians. The pathophysiology, epidemiology, semiology and differential diagnosis associated with these disorders will be discussed. From a clinical point of view, it will be taught how to apply this knowledge in the field in a preventive, curative, palliative or referencing framework, taking into account the delimited field of action of osteopaths.

THE ADVANCED VOLUMETRIC APPROACH (AVA) is an osteopathic technique developed by Joseph Gill-Lussier, D.O. specifically designed for complex cases. Based on the principles taught by Robert Rousse, D.O., the technique incorporates influences from Becker, Hoover, and Arbuckle to create a unique and effective clinical approach. The AVA method involves establishing a dialogue with the patient’s tissues and engaging the whole person to achieve the normalization of the cervical neurological subunit. The approach also considers the neuromechanical link between the peripheral levers and structural manipulations and their effects on the central nervous system. Moreover, the AVA approach takes into account andragogical, self-efficacy, and enactive infererence models to guide treatment. This collaborative clinical approach is known to effectively address complex cases found in the clinic, and has helped many patients to achieve better outcomes.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES of the course

• RAISING THE OSTEOPATH'S AWARENESS OF to the importance in identifying the root causes of the imbalance, headaches, tinnitus, pain and of considering possible comorbidities and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• DEVELOP A CORRECT AND ACCURATE LEXICAL SET
• LEARN THE OSTEOPATHIC ASSESSMENT AND APPROACH of patients with cervicogenic disorders with the Advanced Volumetric Approach.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE

• UNDERSTAND the pathology and pathophysiology associated with cervicogenic disorders implicating dizziness, headache, tinnitus and neck pain.
• KNOW the existence of their main dangerous mimics (transient ischemic attack, arrhythmia, stroke, etc.).
• UNDERSTAND the delimited field of action of the osteopath and the importance of referencing in the treatment of the various vestibular, central or vascular pathologies.
• EVALUATE AND USE the Advanced Volumetric Approach, therefore:
• KNOW HOW TO APPROACH proprioceptive cervicogenic dizziness, cervicogenic headaches, cervicogenic tinnitus, and chronic neck pain.
• DEVELOP THE NECESSARY KNOW-HOW AND MENTAL POSTURE in the technical procedure and in the therapeutic contact with the patient.
• ESTABLISH a logical relationship between structures, anxiety and fatigue, and function in the context of cervicogenic disorders.
• KNOW THE KEY STRUCTURES of the different systems and mechanisms to guide relevant and effective intervention in osteopathy in the context of damage to the cervical neurological subunit.

PRESENTATION PLAN:

Each day will take place in 2 parts:

AM THEORETICAL PRESENTATION: Knowledge and Professional Skills

PM THE PRACTICE Know How.

DAY 1

THEORETICAL PRESENTATION

Clinical context from which emerged the Advanced Volumetric Approach.

Review on Cervical Proprioceptive Dizziness

• Consequences on the patients according to the characteristics of the populations affected.
• Fall risk assessment and universal fall precautions.

Osteopathic Constructs: Clinical Approach

• Osteopathy ontology and conceptual considerations: What is osteopathy in 2023?
• So what is the active ingredient?
• What is osteopathic lesion or somatic dysfunction”?

Know How, Principles and Models in Osteopathy

Basic evaluation triad to promote the conditions for dialogue

Principle of test-correction and correction systems

• Know-how: Tissue dialogue
• Constructs of functional and structural according to Hoover
• The spring and barrier concept
• Adaptation
• The different moments of induction
• Introduction to embodied Osteopathy

PRACTICE

The tissue framework and liquids: a model of tensegrity

Structural and fluid mass mechanism according to Robert Rousse D.O. and Magoun

Global work: “structural-fluidic”

The Comma Technique

Induction test practice

• Lateral chest compression test
• A/P compression test
• Cephalo caudal compression test

Spiral thoracic volumetric techniques (Variant on post endothoracic fascia, Variant on ant endothoracic fascia, Nancy Côté D.O. variant (“open the book”))

Thoracic normalisation: Mediastinal area

«Care bear» technique (upper and lower limb)

Lateral decompression of the thorax in 3 stages using levers

Lateral shoulder decompression in DD

DAY 2

THEORETICAL PRESENTATION

Review Continuous Cervical Proprioceptive Dizziness

• Interdisciplinarity
• Red flags, Differential diagnosis-Pathology, semiology and treatments
• Vertigo of central origin (Post concussion syndrome, Psychogenic vertigo, Vestibular migraine, Basilar migraine, Vertebrobasilar insufficiency)
• Functional vertigo (PPPD, cervicogenic dizziness)
• Common benign and dangerous etiologies of vertigo and dizziness – pathophysiology and pathophysiology
• Other differential diagnoses

PRACTICE: Global work continued…

Spiral work

1. Posterolateral chain (BIT)
2. Work for DM with head flexion. (and eyes)
3. Tx-Lumbar segmental work

Visceral Frame Normalisation

Peri-umbilical- hypogastric

Urogenital gutter

Pubo-vesico-gyneco-sacral recto blade and hypogastric density

Objectives, dialogue, therapeutic approaches

Upper middle and lower posterior unit work.

DAY 3

THEORETICAL PRESENTATION

Review Cervical proprioceptive dizziness continue…

• Interventions

Review of non-specific chronic cervicalgia

• Pathophysiology of chronic pain
• Apprehension-avoidance model
• Self-efficacy
• Predictive and interoceptive “embodied” model

Review of headaches of cervical origin

• Etiology
• Diagnostic criteria
• Differential diagnosis
• Treatments

PRACTICE

Cross work of densities and adhesions: “Jesus Christ super star” technique

• In distraction/compression
• prevertebral chain, DM, Vertebral

Work of the anterior cervico-visceral compartment with an inverted lever on the Dura and the prevertebral chain

Work on deep visceral sheath and hyoid mobilization

Test in a-p high cx

Mobilization test and search for the slowing point

Density or adhesion work

1. cervico-colic
2. cranio-cervical
3. cervico-cranial

Technique of Romeo and Juliet modification of the Technique of Fredérick Sary D.O.

Working of the anterior cervico-visceral compartment with an inverted lever on the DM and the prevertebral chain.

Slow down point and osteopathic lesion

Counterstrain technique in DL Head scapula cx, thx, sup Limb.

DAY 4

THEORETICAL PRESENTATION:

Presentation of the cranial volumetric concept:

• Cranial and intracranial tensegrity system.
• System of pillars and arches.
• Cavity and cranial compartments.
• Bowl Demonstration.

PRACTICE :

Work C0.C1 TMJ. (“cervical trigeminate nucleus”)

Cranial work: AP sphere: compression-decompression, Lateral compartments.

Bilat TMJ cradle technique in distraction,

TMJ technique in compression.

Technique of the cross OM Orbital axis.

Additional information:

Course schedules: From 8h30 am to 17h30 pm

Location: CSO – Vancouver: 101-1150 Station St. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6A 4C7

The immune and nourishment dynamics of the vascular tree and its neuro-endocrine modulation system constitute an important element of the body’s ability to autoregulate. The vascular tree represents an embryological developmental axis which remains as a biomechanical, biodynamic and bioenergetic reference of coherence for the physiology. The microcirculation represents the medium of cellular exchanges constituting the metabolic terrain of physiology and the site of primary dysfunction of many conditions.

The pressure mechanism represents an adaptive functional unit to the body’s requirements to preserve cellular exchanges and homeodynamics with the environment.

This practical workshop will explore the vascular tree, microcirculation and the pressure dynamics to reconstitute a structural and functional integrity, allowing patients presenting CHRONIC CONDITIONS to improve.

For example:

• Chronic pain conditions including fibromyalgia and CRPS
• Vascular dysfunctions (HBP, arrhythmia, etc)
• Immune defense vulnerabilities (parasitosis, leaky gut, etc)
• PNEI terrain precursors

SYNOPSIS OF PRACTICAL WORKSHOP:

• Restoring the vascular tree dynamics:
  • Work from the heart to the primary trunks (aorta, VC, thoracic ducts) towards the periphery (Cranium, Spine, UEs, LEs).
  • Integration of the tensegrity, resonance and radiance of the vessels in relation to viscosity and flow quality and work on autonomic and endocrine regulation in connection with the vascular unit according to presentation.
• Clearing of microcirculation:
  • Work on primo-vascular dynamics and intra-extracellular synergy in relation to cellular metabolic activity.
• Restoring the pressure mechanism:
  • Work of the anterior-posterior, medio-lateral and cephalic-caudad interactions of the different compartments in relation to the physiological gutters, the vascular tree and the diaphragmatic synergy.
  • Integration of the interaction between the tissue frame and fluid dynamics for an optimal expression of Potency.
• Harmonisation of the vascular unit and pressure dynamics to the person and their coherence.

This work is an adjunct to traditional fascial, fluidic and energetic work. It is a complementary efficient and useful tool to assist patients with complex and systemic conditions:

THE RULE OF THE ARTERY” REVISITED!

Additional information:

Course schedules: From 8h30 am to 17h30 pm

Location: CSO – Vancouver: 101-1150 Station St. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6A 4C7

4-day workshop, focused on the clinical evaluation methodology that gives you the basic keys to structure your daily intervention with pediatric clients. The training workshop is intended for osteopathic graduates and osteopaths who wish to consolidate complementary knowledge in perinatal and pediatric osteopathy.

The following themes will be addressed (3 days):

• Overview of the subjective assessment specific to the pediatric clientele (anamnesis);
• Objective assessment of the newborn (Amiel-Tison observation & routine);
• The methodology of objective assessment by age group (6 months and above);
• Postural observation and the walking pattern;
• Specific evaluation of the pelvis, spine and lower limbs;
• Clinical methodology (osteopathic techniques);
• Classroom consultations to integrate the concepts covered;
• Discussion focused on intervention in the clinic: information to give to parents, advice, exercises and positioning.

Clinical Day (October 5th):

The last day of training will be a clinical day where we will receive newborns, infants and young children in class to integrate the masterful component with the clinical component. It is an opportunity for the participant to observe real consultations and to give feedback on them.

Teacher:

Additional information:

Course schedules: From 8h30 am to 17h30 pm

Location: CSO – Vancouver: 101-1150 Station St. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6A 4C7

During this seminar, we will guide you to properly perform osteoarticular adjustments using the energetic impulse.

This is the best method. It is easy, gentle, precise, and very effective. It uses the concept of a beautiful harmony between biomechanics and biodynamics to obtain the bioenergetic quality necessary for the vital force to return to the joint and suppress the inertia due to the traumatic shock.

Practice description

1. The concepts of the method, the discussion with Tom Dummer, D.O., the notion of muscle barrier and accumulation of tension. The nature of energetic impulse - details on the method. The vagus nerve and adjustments by energetic impulse.
2. Clinical and practical applications
   • Indications and contraindications.
   • Preparation for energetic impulse methods by Deason, D.O., and McConnell, D.O.
   • Recoil for pelvis and ribs.
   • The sacrum according to Thomas Dummer, D.O.
   • Ribs 1 and 2, C7, D1, D2, and the 3 normalization methods by impulse.
   • C0/C1/C2 the pseudo-rotation.
   • Shoulder, high dorsals, and first ribs according to A.T. Still, D.O.
   • Costal grill, according to John Wernham, D.O., the costo-transverses and compacted rib heads.
   • The Iliac, by Harold Magoun, D.O. and Jean-Guy Sicotte, D.O.
   • Calcaneus and high scaphoid, the head of the anterior fibula, the astragalus embedded under the anterior and posterior malleolus.
   • Adjustments of the lumbar vertebrae by considering the central chain as a reference for the impulse.
   • The cervicals and the dura mater, Thomas Schooley, D.O.
   • L5 adjustments and herniated disc. The importance of vascular and venous pressures in the phenomenon of herniated discs, the importance of lesions of the high lumbar vertebrae in hernias L5/S1 and L4/L5.
   • The clinical methodology for integrating these techniques into your practice.

Objectives of this seminar

At the time when we are in the process of having a professional order, it is essential that osteopaths practice an excellent method that is different from other professions that use manipulations. We have chosen strategic places, very useful for our patients. All techniques will be "upgraded" for better practice.

Teaching and learning methods

• PowerPoint presentation
• Practical demonstrations
• Practice sessions after demonstrations
• Validation of palpation and work methodology
• Encourage the student to reflect and discuss the concepts presented and compare their perception of their practice with the information learned during this course.

Speaker

Philippe Druelle is known for the quality of his treatments by adapting to the needs of the patient. Osteoarticular techniques in osteopathy are different from those of other health professionals. The concept of energy is essential, and it is possible to perform these methods with ease and gentleness by guiding you step by step. A seminar rich in practice with concern for the integration of the method. Professor, author, researcher, international lecturer, and appreciated for 40 years, he had the chance to receive the teaching of the elders.

Additional information:

Course schedules: From 8h30 am to 17h30 pm

Location: CSO – Vancouver: 101-1150 Station St. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6A 4C7