Description
2 Hours of CPD learning by oneself including instructional video and summative assessment quiz to focus the learning. Certificate generated on conclusion of the course
There are plenty of books on self nutrition but not really on strategies on how to approach the nutrition of the patient from an Osteopathic practitioner’s perspective. Yes, a core part of patient recovery and successful outcomes, is a better diet to promote a stable recovery. But from a practitioners perspective we need to be able to see whether other factors obstructing the health of the patient are contributing to nutritional issues.
Here we explore the total context of nutrition, from outside the body – to the cell – and open up all the pathways of a nutritional diagnosis to include the whole constitution. There are many potential lesioning pathways within the Nutritional Field which are often overlooked or not even considered, but should always be part of the Core Osteopathic plan for health.
Improving the diet, apart from identifying the junk and what may be missing, is also about ‘taste introduction’ because most of the foods that are missing are the ones that help the body nutrilise and eliminate waste products. This may be because, when they are new, they can taste ‘bitter’ so we need a plan. They are also the foods that ‘sate’ the appetite and are effectively deficient or actively removed from processed foods and this may be one reason why obesity has become an epidemic. It is why I call them the ‘eliminatory foods’ and they are a ‘missing food group’ for many people.
I have spent many years helping children and adults with self restricted diets address, what may be holding up their recovery. This film shares some of the strategies I have evolved to help them restore their health.
Bringing the simple ‘day to day’ diet up to par, with ideas to remove, add or swap common foods that can hinder/assist cleaning and recovery has really helped shift many of what at first were ‘sticky cases’ – into a healing space and facilitate a prompt and stable recovery back to health. Teaching your patient how to take control of their health is part of the work, knowing how to is part of the job of the Osteopath.
There will be some illustrated case histories that demonstrate the results of this approach. The cases will show how often patients presenting with the same symptoms do not always have the same nutritional disruption contributing to their presenting condition.
A demonstration of using juices as ‘taste introduction’, not food replacement, will show a strategy for getting those ‘eliminatory foods’ onto the palate. Recipes for ‘cake free cakes’ and good protein snack combining. It gives you a plan to help healthy snacking become part of a pathway to a balanced approach to eating for your patients. Includes suggested recipes and presentations for juices and healthy snacks, that compliment each other.
