2024 Founder's Day | It’s Hammer Time: Percussion Hammer/Oscillation OMT for Patient Care

2024 Founder's Day | It’s Hammer Time: Percussion Hammer/Oscillation OMT for Patient Care is organized by A.T. Still University (ATSU) Continuing Education and will be held from Oct 17 - 19, 2024 at A.T. Still University, Kirksville, Missouri, United States of America.

Activity Description:
This course is based on the life work of Robert C. Fulford, D.O. in osteopathy, life energy, vibration, and the use of the percussion vibrator. This course introduces these basic osteopathic philosophic and practice principles that Dr. Fulford perfected in his over 55 years of exploration and clinical practice. This is the same course Dr. Fulford himself taught in the last decade of his life. An extra day has been added to include new evidence-based information and to present the basic concepts and palpatory skills needed to understand the percussion techniques and principles as taught by Dr. Fulford.

Educational Objectives:
After this activity, attendees will be able to:

• Describe Dr. Fulford’s life, history, and practice of osteopathy.
• Discuss the life energy, fascia, and piezoelectric effects in the anatomy.
• Develop the palpatory skills in evaluation and treatment of subtle energy and life forces.
• Explain vibration as the basic foundation of life, health, and healing.
• Introduce and provide supervised practical experiences in the use of the percussion hammer and in osteopathic treatment.
• Review how to care for and maintain the equipment.
• Provide clinical cases and scenarios of the diagnosis and use of Dr. Fulford’s philosophy and treatment principles.

Core Competencies and Osteopathic Tenets
CME activities must address one or more of the AOA seven core competencies or one of the five osteopathic models with attention to the tenets. The core competencies and osteopathic tenets addressed by this activity are highlighted below.

Core Competencies

• Osteopathic Principles and Practice
• Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice
• Osteopathic Patient Care
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Osteopathic Medical Practice
• Professionalism in Osteopathic Medical Practice
• Osteopathic Medical Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
• System-Based Osteopathic Medical Practice

Osteopathic Tenets

• The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind, and spirit.
• The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, and health maintenance.
• Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated.
• Rational treatment is based upon an understanding of the basic principles of body unity, self-regulation, and the interrelationship of structure and function.

Desired Outcome
After taking this course, the participant should understand the life, philosophy, and osteopathic medical practice of Robert C. Fulford, D.O. and will be introduced to Fulford’s concept of vibration, love, and breath in osteopathic philosophy and practice; to introduce concepts of subtle energy and life energy in the philosophy and practice of osteopathy. By the end of the course, the participant will be able to evaluate, diagnose, and apply vibratory treatment with the use of the percussion hammer as taught by Dr. Robert C. Fulford.