Posture, TMJ, Occlusion: Osteopathic Approach

– Course objectives

– Myofunctional Postural Rehabilitation (MPR)

– TMJ and posture

– What is TMJ?

– The cranio-facial system

– The importance of mandibular posture

– Jaw position and posture

– Common changes in jaw position

– Holistic diagnosis

– Interdisciplinary collaboration

– Osteopathy and physiotherapy

– Interdisciplinary treatment

– Deprogramming the cranio-facial system

– Clinical cases study.

Recommended for: General dentists, Orthodontists, Functional dentists.

– Basics of posturology 

– Posturology vs Posturometry

– Evolutionary adaptation

– Tonic postural system

– Main postural receptors 

– Eye anatomy and neurophysiology

– Eye postural relations

– The foot as a receptor

– Foot anatomy

– Foot types 

– Foot postural relations.

Recommended for: General dentists, Orthodontists, Functional dentists.

– Introduction to posturometry

– Patient examination

– Posturometer

– Measuring posture

– Posturometry:

- Features

- Balance

- Body adaptation.

– How does Posturometer work:

- Kapandji's principle 

- Foot position 

- Posturometry tests 

- Basic protocol.

– Posturometer exam

– Stabilometry

– Clinical cases study.

Recommended for: General dentists, Orthodontists, Functional dentists.

– Postural planes diagnosis

– Postural planes alterations

– Occlusion problem

– Thoracic-brachial triangle

– Rotation test

– Convergence test

– Differential test

– March test

– Static bi-podal support

– Static mono-podal support

– Clinical cases study. 

Recommended for: General dentists, Orthodontists, Functional dentists.

– TMJ diagnosis

– Jaw central relation

– TMJ anatomy

– Functional occlusion: characteristics 

– Control of movenent

– Functional area and space

– Posturometry

– Whilson's curve

– Spee's curve

– Tongue position 

– Clinical cases study

– Neuromuscular diagnosis 

– Nueromuscular dysfunction

– Muscle chain balance

– Nueromuscular exam 

– Nueromuscular therapies 

– Bruxism:

- Definition

- Etiology 

- Defence mechanism. 

Recommended for: General dentists, Orthodontists, Functional dentists.

– Deprogramming

– Body Equilibrium Device (B.E.D.):

- Characteristics

- Functionalizable areas

- Rules for using

- Activation.

– Reprogramming the jaw 

– The manipulations:

- Cranio-sacral manipulation

- TMJ manipulation.

– Postural pathologies prevention

– Craniofacial orthopaedics

– Clinical cases study. 

Recommended for: General dentists, Orthodontists, Functional dentists.

– Interdisciplinary collaboration: Dentist and Osteopath

– Introduction in osteopathy

– TMJ alterations

– Anterior disc displacement

– TMJ degenerative osteoarthrosis

– TMJ neurovegetative influence

– Bruxism effects on cranio-facial system

– Cranial biomechanics

– Osteopathic therapies.

Recommended for: General dentists, Orthodontists, Functional dentists.