AACP Member Fee: £180.00
Non-member Fee: £220.00
Places free: Yes
Booking close date: 22nd Sep 2025
Tutor(s) at this event:
Event session(s) as follows:
Course Description
This course will introduce delegates to the most useful Osteopathic Manual therapy (Grade V ) and Articulation Techniques. It is a 80% practical Course and aims to give participants increased assessment / palpation skills as well as new manipulative treatment ideas. Spinal articulation (mobilisations) and soft tissue approaches before extending your skills into manipulative techniques to the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spines. The approach to all The course allows time for close 1:1 supervision
Cameron Reid is an experienced lecturer with 33 years in practice.
This 2 day series aims to improve handling, palpation and manual therapy skills.
Day 1 concentrates on the Upper Body. Soft tissue and articulation (mobilisation) and manipulation (Grade5) of the cervical spine and the junctional areas of occipito-atlantoid junction, cervicodorsal junction, and thoracic spine.
Day2 concentrates on the lower body. Teaching articulation skills to the lumbar spine and, sacroiliac joints, and manipulative techniques to the Dorso-lumbar junction, lumbar spine, sacrum, and sacro-iliac joints.
All manipulative techniques will be reviewed at the end of the course to refine and consolidate these skills further.
A key feature of the tutor's approach is to maximise positioning and efficiency of
technique application for each individual thus making the numerous techniques taught both comfortable to apply and highly effective.
Objectives
On completion of this course participants will be able to:
1. Improve patient positioning for any manual technique taught to ensure efficiency, patient safety and technique effectiveness.
2. Perform HVLA Manipulations to the cervical thoracic, lumbar spine and sacroiliac joints in various patient positions.
3. Increases the practitioners range of soft tissue techniques and effectiveness and refine the manipulation skills already worked on
4. Demonstrate soft tissue techniques to the regions of the spine
Course Reading – There is no required pre course reading necessary
BIOGRAPHY
Cameron Reid studied Human Biology at the University of Surrey graduating in 1982 spending a year studying Ergonomics at the University of Zurich with Prof Etienne Grandjean . A lifelong interest in why some people are more susceptible to musculoskeletal injury than others lead him to train as an Osteopath. He gained a scholarship to study at the British School of Osteopathy, London, qualifying in 1986 where he later took the position of clinical tutor at the school. He runs accredited courses and seminars on these subjects for manual therapists. He has been published in Sports Injury Bulletin, Massage World, Embody and Natural Health Magazine. He was an Associate Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, teaching Osteopathic Techniques to undergraduate Physiotherapists and lecturing on the Foundation Degree in Sports Coaching . Cameron Reid is Osteopath is regulated by the General Osteopathic Council (No 1086)
