http://osnz.org/go/index.php/events/ en eddy@eenz.com Copyright 2011 2011-04-30T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/sutherland_cranial_teaching_foundation_of_australia_and_new_zealand/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/sutherland_cranial_teaching_foundation_of_australia_and_new_zealand/#When:21:00:00Z Various courses scheduled for 2010 and 2011. - A Follow-up to ‘The Fundamentals of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field’ (Auckland, July 24) - Dr Jane Carreiro - The Irritable Infant: Colic, Irritability, Sucking and Feeding Difficulties (Sydney, 18 June) - Exploring the Senses: An Embryological Perspective on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Face (Sydney, 20-23 Aug) - Dr Sutherland’s Treatment Approach Applied To The Whole Body Using Balanced Ligamentous Tension (Surfers Paradise, 1-5 Nov) - Celebrate Osteopathy Together - The 20th Anniversary of the founding of the SCTF of ANZ. A Gala Dinner and Ball will be held Saturday, Nov 6, 2010 7:00 pm Holiday Inn, Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise - The Rule of the Artery - Level II - The Fundamentals of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field - The Face - Balanced Ligamentous Tension - The Fundamentals of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field - The Development of Gait and Posture in Children and Adolescents; and Common Orthopaedic Conditions Please check their website for full details. 2011-02-20T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/applied_ethics_and_related_law_for_health_professionals_study_day/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/applied_ethics_and_related_law_for_health_professionals_study_day/#When:20:45:00Z Many health professionals are eager to increase their understanding of health care ethics in practice. This one-day event provides workshops to assist participants in their ethical decision-making. The study day is relevant to health and disability providers, registered health practitioners, managers and educators. The objectives of the study day are to: - expand participants’ knowledge about ethical and legal principles in health practice - learn strategies for addressing ethical issues - experience practical ethical decision making - reduce risk of unethical practice - discover sources of assistance and strategies for managing ethical issues in practice 2010-11-25T20:45:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/7th_interdisciplinary_world_congress_on_low_back_pelvic_pain/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/7th_interdisciplinary_world_congress_on_low_back_pelvic_pain/#When:21:00:00Z Conference Date: 9-12 Noember 2010 Early Bird closes 1 September 2010. OSNZ is an ‘Endorsing Organisation’. The preliminary program for the 2010 congress will be available from the 25th of January on http://www.worldcongresslbp.com. The 2010 program will focus on effective clinical implementation of evidence based research for low back and pelvic pain. It is formatted into a course like program with ample time for discussion. OSNZ has endorsed this conference which gives OSNZ Members a reduction in the registration fee, and you can also benefit from the special accommodation rates at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, the headquarters for this years congress.  To access these rates simply follow the ‘Accommodation’ link, which will take them directly to our special online booking form. 2010-11-08T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/international_conference_on_integrative_medicine_jerusalem/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/international_conference_on_integrative_medicine_jerusalem/#When:21:00:00Z An International Conference on Integrative Medicine will be held 19-22 October 2010 in Jerusalem. It will be a meeting of professionals in the field of medicine from around the world that will deal with ways to unite the scientific principles of modern medicine with the holistic principles of alternative medicine. In order to give all those interested the possibility to participate (or to give a paper) we hereby announce that registration has started. The scientific committee of the convention is still open to accept additional topics to the conference program. More details and registration forms are available in the Conference site. 2010-10-18T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/moving_osteopathy_into_the_future_electronic_enablement_standards_for_wgtn/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/moving_osteopathy_into_the_future_electronic_enablement_standards_for_wgtn/#When:21:00:00Z Wellington 18-19th September 2010 For information on prices, please use the link at the bottom of this page - “registration website and more details’. About The Course: Osteopaths Anya Schumacher and Richard Moon will present this course over a one and a half day period. Electronic Enablement: (Half Day Program) There has been a lot of speculation as to where the future of Osteopathy lies given the emerging requirements from ACC, Standards NZ, probable private insurers entering the market place, MOH directives etc. One component of this is computerisation or ‘becoming electronic’ within our practices. It is a policy of the OSNZ to assist our membership to move into the electronic era with as little difficulty as possible. Richard Moon over a half day will be de-bunking the myths, making the whole process understandable and enabling practitioners to reach an informed place from which better consideration can be given to the issues involved. Standards for Osteopathic Practices: (One Day Program) It is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid the need for written office/practice protocols and procedures.  ACC wants to ensure that there is consistency across the board in terms of safety and quality to the consumers and have been working with Standards NZ to develop a National standard for all Allied Health practitioners.  They have developed audit workbooks for the Physiotherapists and Chiropractors and it will not be long before Osteopathy is targeted. Nick Smith indicated that Osteopathic practices will undergo an auditing process within the next 18 months and although this indication has changed slightly over the last year it is clear that audit processes are becoming part of present day clinical practice. Whilst these guidelines are voluntary to osteopaths working in private practices, certification against the NZ8171 Allied Health Services sector standards will become a requirement to apply for the ACC contract and potentially aid us in becoming the preferred treatment provider for insurance companies taking over the work force contract currently held by ACC. These guidelines are for private practices to use as a template from which, written procedures and protocols can be drawn up and implemented. This framework document will be discussed at this program over a one-day period. We recommend all osteopaths participate in one of these meetings to ensure each practitioner and practice is given as much support and help to pass the auditing process and ensure consistency across the osteopathic profession. Standard Workbooks The OSNZ is in the process of having workbooks that fulfill the Standards NZ guidelines developed for osteopaths. These workbooks will be included in the price of the program.  Anya Schumacher will talk you through these workbooks along side the framework document so that you can understand what you will need to do for your own practice. These workbooks will reduce your workload enormously as certain information needs to be included in everyone’s practice manuals and it means that you will not individually have to reinvent the wheel and find all relevant information.  The information will be there for you to develop your own manual.  It will also provide you with templates of the areas that you do need to individualise for your own practices. Speaker Details: Richard Moon: Richard qualified from the ESO in 1988.  He has been in private practice from then on, and has worked from Warkworth for the last 17 years.  He took over the ACC portfolio on the OSNZ Committee about 18 months ago and is currently ‘enjoying’ the potential challenges that may face modern osteopathic practice. Richard has a particular interest in the area of electronic enablement and has had to come to grips with a number of aspects of computerisation in the creation of a web-based practice management system. He has developed a body of knowledge regarding security, industry ICT standards and has explored the issues of implementing an electronic practice management system. Richard has been our ACC liaison officer for the past couple of years and has played a key role in representing the profession at Health Informatics NZ.  He has attended lectures and conferences which have dealt with the considerations of the architecture for electronic records, systems for billing, schedules and research, system interoperability and integrity and also the clinical guidelines relating to these and other operations associated with eHealth. Anya Schumacher: Anya Schumacher graduated from the European School of Osteopathy in 2002.  Five weeks later she was working in Lower Hutt as an associate at the Twig Centre. At the end of 2004 Anya moved to Auckland where she spent over three years working at Living Osteopathy with Sarah-Jane, as well as lecturing first years and tutoring fourth years, on the Osteopathic course at Unitec. Over the last year Anya Schumacher has researched the Allied Health Standards 18171 document and cross-referenced it with the revalidation process being piloted in the UK. Anya has had numerous meetings with the Director of the NZPPA ( New Zealand Private Physiotherapy Association) to discuss the procedures and protocols the physiotherapists were required to comply with under the EPN (endorsed provider network) Scheme and whilst ACC has terminated this scheme, future assessment of other Allied health professionals will be based primarily on the 8171 standards document. Anya has compiled a framework document covering the key headings all practices need to address to ensure they have appropriate manuals drawn up and subsequently be in the best position to succeed as and when ACC audit our profession. Registration Details: Registration is open to all OSNZ members and student OSNZ members.  Your registration fee covers your tuition, morning tea and afternoon tea; lunch will not be provided. Course fees do not include your accommodation. The program cost has not been finalised but will be available in the next month - please check the website for details. 2010-09-17T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_hastings/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_hastings/#When:21:00:00Z Saturday 6 March 2010 The Contractile Field – the grammar of movement Presented by: Phillip Beach, DO,DAc This course presents a new model of human movement that draws extensively on embryology and evolutionary developmental biology. For too long the knowledge base that manual therapists and the training community have used has been based on a cadaveric approach to anatomy. Muscles are painstakingly surgically isolated, named, and a movement action described. We then use that theoretical base to inform our practices. For example the biceps is isolated as a muscle and an expensive gym machine is produced that isolates that named muscle, and works it. The new millennium needs a better model. Contractile fields are whole organism in scope. They are fields of contractility that are archetypal, meaning they can be traced back to the origins of vertebrate movement. Side-bending, flexion/extension, helical, radial, limb fields, fluid fields and chiralic fields will be described, delineated and field interpenetration discussed. If you need to understand human movement this course will change the way you conceptualize and think about your work. 2010-03-05T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_auckland/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_auckland/#When:21:00:01Z Saturday 28 November 2009 The Contractile Field – the grammar of movement Presented by: Phillip Beach, DO,DAc This course presents a new model of human movement that draws extensively on embryology and evolutionary developmental biology. For too long the knowledge base that manual therapists and the training community have used has been based on a cadaveric approach to anatomy. Muscles are painstakingly surgically isolated, named, and a movement action described. We then use that theoretical base to inform our practices. For example the biceps is isolated as a muscle and an expensive gym machine is produced that isolates that named muscle, and works it. The new millennium needs a better model. Contractile fields are whole organism in scope. They are fields of contractility that are archetypal, meaning they can be traced back to the origins of vertebrate movement. Side-bending, flexion/extension, helical, radial, limb fields, fluid fields and chiralic fields will be described, delineated and field interpenetration discussed. If you need to understand human movement this course will change the way you conceptualize and think about your work. 2009-11-27T21:00:01+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_wellington/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_wellington/#When:21:00:00Z Sunday 22 November 2009 Assessing biomechanical tune using the archetypal postures of repose and introducing the Erectorcise concept. Presented by: Phillip Beach, DO,DAc The Erectorcise exercises are derived from that most important of movement sequences i.e. the erection from the floor to standing. We are a bipedal ape that can trace our ancestry back to homo erectus. Erecting from the floor is mastered by all human children from all cultures, and has been for at least six million years. The floor to standing sequence is central to the biomechanical construction of every muscle, bone and joint we have. It is a movement sequence that the great majority of people now rarely exercise. I suggest much of the endemic back pain and limb dysfunction we end up treating is derived in large part from loss of ease in the floor postures, and loss of the complex strength needed to arise from the floor easily and gracefully. The workshop will cover the embryology and evolutionary biology of the lower limbs. Archetypal floor postures will be practised and refined. Erecting from the floor with good style will be practised. These exercises are core curriculum to all movement. They are applicable to all people. You need to comprehend this concept. 2009-11-21T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_bay_of_plenty1/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_bay_of_plenty1/#When:21:00:00Z Sunday 15 November 2009 Assessing biomechanical tune using the archetypal postures of repose and introducing the Erectorcise concept. Presented by: Phillip Beach, DO,DAc The Erectorcise exercises are derived from that most important of movement sequences i.e. the erection from the floor to standing. We are a bipedal ape that can trace our ancestry back to homo erectus. Erecting from the floor is mastered by all human children from all cultures, and has been for at least six million years. The floor to standing sequence is central to the biomechanical construction of every muscle, bone and joint we have. It is a movement sequence that the great majority of people now rarely exercise. I suggest much of the endemic back pain and limb dysfunction we end up treating is derived in large part from loss of ease in the floor postures, and loss of the complex strength needed to arise from the floor easily and gracefully. The workshop will cover the embryology and evolutionary biology of the lower limbs. Archetypal floor postures will be practised and refined. Erecting from the floor with good style will be practised. These exercises are core curriculum to all movement. They are applicable to all people. You need to comprehend this concept. 2009-11-14T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_bay_of_plenty/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_bay_of_plenty/#When:21:00:00Z Saturday 14 November 2009 The Contractile Field – the grammar of movement Presented by: Phillip Beach, DO,DAc This course presents a new model of human movement that draws extensively on embryology and evolutionary developmental biology. For too long the knowledge base that manual therapists and the training community have used has been based on a cadaveric approach to anatomy. Muscles are painstakingly surgically isolated, named, and a movement action described. We then use that theoretical base to inform our practices. For example the biceps is isolated as a muscle and an expensive gym machine is produced that isolates that named muscle, and works it. The new millennium needs a better model. Contractile fields are whole organism in scope. They are fields of contractility that are archetypal, meaning they can be traced back to the origins of vertebrate movement. Side-bending, flexion/extension, helical, radial, limb fields, fluid fields and chiralic fields will be described, delineated and field interpenetration discussed. If you need to understand human movement this course will change the way you conceptualize and think about your work. 2009-11-13T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_waikato_date_to_be_confirmed/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_waikato_date_to_be_confirmed/#When:21:00:00Z Saturday 17 October 2009 A Kinetic Approach to HVLA, an adaptation to modern osteopathy Presented by: José Kunzler, DO.BSC (Hons) MROF, MOSNZ Jose will talk about the use of a kinetic energy giving a high speed, short momentum into the targeted tissue. The tissue will respond with an osmotic relation towards its environment, instead of keeping isolated as a lesion. The reaction is often mediate, not immediate nor long term. The result and improvement are long term; there is no necessity for repeating treatment. This involves pain free techniques that go with the tissue and not against, transmitting enough and no more of what is necessary for someone to create his own healing process. The material to be covered on this program includes patient installation, meaning considerations of posture and other applications that will amplify the effectiveness of structural techniques. Operator positioning to better harmonise with your patients. Discussion will be had about the philosophy of how, when and why one would use HVLA (high velocity low amplitude). José will then discuss techniques and principles of combined levers. This will be very useful for those who wish to learn how to refine their techniques further and improve their effectiveness and patient response. 2009-10-16T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/osnz_agm/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/osnz_agm/#When:21:30:00Z 9.30 - 10.30am OSNZ AGM 10.30 - 11.00am Morning tea 11.00 - 12.30pm Panel discussion - Osteopathy in New Zealand and its world partners (Panel: Clive Standen OIA, Antony Nicols AOA and Melvin Jessop BOA) 12.30 - 1.30pm Lunch 1.30 - 4.30pm Forum - General discussion for members - Beginning with an update from Stiofan McSuibhne, Chair, OCNZ - Extended Practice Rights.  What does this mean? - HINZ - Standards and Credentialing For further information, please contact Lydia, lydia@osnz.org or 03 313 5086. 2009-09-18T21:30:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_christchurch/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/peer_group_meeting_christchurch/#When:21:00:00Z A Kinetic Approach to HVLA, an adaptation to modern osteopathy Presented by: José Kunzler, DO.BSC (Hons) MROF, MOSNZ Jose will talk about the use of a kinetic energy giving a high speed, short momentum into the targeted tissue. The tissue will respond with an osmotic relation towards its environment, instead of keeping isolated as a lesion. The reaction is often mediate, not immediate nor long term. The result and improvement are long term; there is no necessity for repeating treatment. This involves pain free techniques that go with the tissue and not against, transmitting enough and no more of what is necessary for someone to create his own healing process. The material to be covered on this program includes patient installation, meaning considerations of posture and other applications that will amplify the effectiveness of structural techniques. Operator positioning to better harmonise with your patients. Discussion will be had about the philosophy of how, when and why one would use HVLA (high velocity low amplitude). José will then discuss techniques and principles of combined levers. This will be very useful for those who wish to learn how to refine their techniques further and improve their effectiveness and patient response. 2009-09-11T21:00:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/a_classical_osteopathy_perspective_of_digestive_problems/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/a_classical_osteopathy_perspective_of_digestive_problems/#When:22:30:00Z A PowerPoint presentation by Tina Fitz-Gerald BSc (Hons) Ost 10.30am Saturday 23 May 2009 Please RSVP to Niki on niki@sososteopaths.co.nz or Tina on 06 877 2333 (to organise light refreshments) 2009-05-22T22:30:00+12:00 http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/oia_2009_conference_and_agm/ http://www.osnz.org/go/index.php/events/event_detail/oia_2009_conference_and_agm/#When:22:09:01Z Held in conjuntion with the Australian Osteopathic Association 16 - 18 October 2009 Conference 2009-02-25T22:09:01+12:00