2024 ISM Series Update

Course description

This is a highly practical course that will update/refine your ISM skills.  It is a very dynamic course, unique to each year and location.  In 2024 we will focus on the cranial region to determine:

1. When is the cranial region (cranium, OA AA joints) a MSK driver  with a dural vector (often the cerebellar tentorium) for a screening task vs
2. When the dural system is impaired and no MSK driver can be found. Treatment is very different for these two impairments and will be discussed and practiced
3.  If the neurocranium is driving the impairments in the visceral cranium (face) vs the face (viscerocranium) is driving the neurocranium i.e. how the sphenoid listenings determine the order of release in the cranium. Release techniques for the main viscero and neurocranium sutures will be covered. There is no protocol, recipes or treatment order in ISM.  Using our hands to listen for priority body regions and vectors determines what is treated and in what order.
4. If the Primary Respiratory Mechanism is symmetric or asymmetric and why and why it is important to restore the amplitude and rhythm of the PRM. Being able to palpate the PRM and interpret the findings will be taught on this update and the current understanding of its importance for health explained.

We will also discuss current fluid (CSF, glymph and venous blood) theories and the relationship of fluid flow to the ‘infinity sign’ (lateral fluctuation sign in osteopathy) and how to treat this condition that often leads to dysequilibrium.

We will also dive deeper into the cervical and visceral fascia and how impairments in the fascial system impacts the cranium, clavicle, and manubrium (and thus TR1 and 2) and how to release these fascial systems.

All of this will be put in relationship to alignment, biomechanics and control of the neck, upper thorax (including the clavicle  and manubrium) and the pelvis.