The Advanced Cranial Course

The prerequisite for an Advanced Dental Seminar is completion of the Basic Cranial Course. (A Cranial Academy or SCTF seminar is also acceptable.) The location of these seminars is the W.G. Sutherland Temporomandibulo-Cranial Dental Group, Inc. teaching facility in Naperville, Illinois.

The schedule and estimated fees for the Advanced Course are listed below. Seminar dates are fixed, but programs and fees may alter due to varying conditions.

To register, please send a check to the mailing address listed on the "Contact Us" page.  You may call the office to register, however, please note there is a 3.75% processing fee charged to register by credit card

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2020 ADVANCED COURSE DATES

September 10 - 12, 2020 

      CANCELLED

November 5-7, 2020    

                                                        Before October 5, 2020                        After October 5, 2020                                                                  

Advanced Course                    $700.00                              $800.00

WGSTD Instructors                 $500.00                              $600.00

ADVANCED COURSE

November 5 - 7, 2020

Teachings of Alan Becker, D.O.

Dr. Alan Becker was a member of Dr. Sutherland’s first cranial group. He was the first recipient of the Fellowship Award in the Cranial Academy.

Dr. Becker taught a 3-day class at The Farm in the early 90’s.

We will present his course in its entirety as our Advanced Course for the April/May Meeting. All Lectures will be given by Dr. Becker utilizing his recordings.

Thursday, November 5, 2020

9:00am – 1:00pm Individual Treatment

2:00pm – 5:00pm  Advanced Course

Friday, November 6, 2020

8:00am – 5:00pm  Advanced Course

Saturday, November 7, 2020

8:00am – 1:00pm Advanced Course

COURSE OUTLINE

• Awareness
• Sensing Lab Review
• Second Thing: What is patient’s mechanism doing?
• How to help not doing anything
• Becker Hold
• Sutherland’s Concepts of Function
• Diagnosis: Know Normal Function
• X-ray: A moment of function
• Lab: Freedom of Movement
• Anything Can Happen
• Effect of Palpation or Touch
• Legal Cranial Dental Contact
• Lec: Directing, you are not doing anything
• Lab: Picking up on rhythms
• Lab cont: Pt hanging on to restriction
• Lec: Temporal Bone
• Lec: Techniques for Temporals or any part of the body
• Lab: Temporal Treatments
• Still: Brain is God’s Drugstore
• Cranium - SBS: One point of reference
• Relation to SBS for Entire Body
• Spine/Pelvis Same as SBS Mechanics
• Condylar Problems
• Philosophy of Osteopathy
• Lec: Frontal Lift
• Lab: Frontal Lift
• Lec: Disengagement of Facial from Frontal
• Lab: Disengagement of Facial from Frontal
• Balancing Suboccipital

2021 ADVANCED COURSE DATES

May 6 - 8, 2021    

                                                                Before April 6, 2021                        After April 6, 2021                                                                 

Advanced Course                    $700.00                              $800.00

WGSTD Instructors                 $500.00                              $600.00

Teachings of Tom Schooley, DO

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Tom Schooley, DO was one of Dr. Sutherland's first teaching staff members in the 1940'sand was credited with the image of the Rams Horn motion of the central nervous system and facia in the cranium.  

He was the Dean of the West Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine and later, Head of the OMT Department at the Florida College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

Over a 6 year period he presented (5) 2-day Courses to the WGSTD Group. 

We will present his May 1990 course in its entirety as our Advanced Course for the November Meeting. All Lectures will be given by Dr. Schooley utilizing his recordings.  Hands-on will be taught by WGSTD Group Instructors.

• Thursday, May 6, 2021

9:00am – 1:00pm Individual Treatment

2:00pm – 5:00pm  Advanced Course

• Friday, May 7, 2021

8:00am – 5:00pm  Advanced Course

• Saturday, May 8, 2021

8:00am – 1:00pm Advanced Course

COURSE OUTLINE

• Overview/History
• Physiology
• Components of the Lesion
• Embryology
• Motion of the Bones
• Sacrum & Postpartum Depression
• Postpartum Depression Treatment
• Membanes - Falx & Tent
• Your mind and Treatment
• Motion - Cranial Bones
• Treatment Techniques
• Zygoma
• Frontal - Sphenoid
• Maxilla
• Palatine
• TMJ
• Mandible
• Dynamic Results of Cranial Treatment
• Case Presentation
• Sphenobasilar Symphysis
• Sacroiliac Lesions & Treatment
• Tom Schooley History
• Postural Exam & Treatment
• Piriformis
• Knee
• Foot
• Shape of Skull
• Sphenoid

September 9 - 11, 2021

                                                        Before August 9, 2021                        After August 9, 2021                                                                 

Advanced Course                    $700.00                              $800.00

WGSTD Instructors                 $500.00                              $600.00

Advanced Course Topic:  TBA