Welcome to Indiana Academy of Osteopathy - The Source of Postgraduate Osteopathic Education in Indiana.
The Indiana Academy of Osteopathy is devoted to promoting and providing educational programs to further osteopathy in Indiana and other underserved areas. Our goal is to enhance osteopathic manipulative medicine education for current DO’s, provide stimulating education for current students, and introduce osteopathic thought, manipulation, and it’s usage to MD’s and other healthcare workers in the State.
This is accomplished through principle-based courses that vary in length from one to three days. These courses reinforce osteopathic principles rather than just teaching techniques and help you to problem solve with your patients.
The IAO is a component society of the American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO), whose headquarters are also located in Indiana. As a component society, we service the osteopathic manipulative medicine educational needs of the State and other underserved areas.
The Dental/Body Connection
Functional Treatment Methods
Retained Primitive Reflexes
A Sutural Approach to Cranial Osteopathy
Applied Kinesiology: Applied Muscle Testing Comes Alive
Mitchell Meets Sutherland - Linking the Cranium and the Sacrum
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Course Format
The IAO currently provides two course formats:
Our one-day courses are principle based - we teach you the HOW (the thought process and application) of a technique. That thought process is repeated throughout the day on various parts of the body and integrated into the whole. We cover the diagnostic principles, the nomenclature of the area, and the application of the technique in a way that allows you to directly take it back to your practice and apply it on all body areas.
This curriculum runs in a three-year cycle. We will cover muscle energy, strain/counterstrain, functional, high velocity/low amplitude, sequencing (how to let the body guide the treatment process),….
Our 2.5 day annual course is more in depth. We bring in a guest speaker to present a topic, and the IAO faculty act as table trainers. In years past we have brought in: Bruno Chikly, MD, DO for the Brain 1 Course; Ed Stiles, DO, FAAO for Sequencing, Cranial and Functional Methods; Rue Tikker, DPM for the AT Still Approach to Foot and Ankle Injuries ….
Special courses will be offered on other topics as well.
The IAO provides category 1A CME (continuing medical education) through the AOA (American Osteopathic Association). This CME will count for MD’s, DO’s, Dentists, and Physical Therapists. If you are interested in taking one of our courses, or in bringing a course to your area, please contact us here.
Who Can Attend?
In order to answer that question, I have to get technical and split hairs with wording… as osteopaths we perform manipulation. The Indiana Academy instructors teach osteopathic manipulation. If you are not an osteopath (DO) or an MD, you can not call what you do when treating another person osteopathic manipulation (otherwise it is practicing medicine without a license-which could get you in a lot of legal trouble and/or land you in jail). That being said, if you have a license in the state in which you live to touch another human being therapeutically (or the foreign country where you reside), we welcome you into our courses. Anyone in the allied health field is welcome to attend!
You must use what you learn within the scope of your individual licensure and not call it “osteopathy”, “osteopathic medicine”, osteopathic manipulation”, or call yourself an “osteopathic practitioner”, “ osteopath”, etc. You also can’t say that you have had “osteopathic training”. If you have any questions about that, please read up on what you are allowed to do in your scope of practice. You can take the knowledge you learn with us and apply it to helping people though (and we certainly hope that you do).
The IAO does not have the ability to confer upon you the designation of being an osteopath (or any other designation). We also don’t have the ability to confer on you the legal ability to touch another human being within the healing arts, nor can taking any of our courses expand what you can legally do within your scope of practice. The instructors will teach the things we know about a topic (how we think, what we do and the results we have seen), but this does not convey upon you the ability to be a physician - osteopathic or otherwise. You can say that you have taken courses with us, and that’s about the legal extent of it.
Please follow the licensure laws of your State or Country when it comes to treating patients/clients and don’t step outside of your legal scope of practice.
Want to connect?
Reach out to us at iaocourses@gmail.com
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