The Vascular System – A Cranial Osteopathic Approach
by Teachers Team Osteopathic Studies

(trained by Maurice Bensoussan M.D., D.O., F.C.A.)

Vascular System April 4-6, 2025
Basic Tools Day: April 3, 2025

The Vascular System – A Cranial Osteopathic Approach

Date: April 4, 5 & 6, 2025
Theme: The Vascular System – A Cranial Osteopathic Approach
by Teachers Team Osteopathic Studies

Prior to the course, a Basic Tools Day will be organized on April 3.

“I proclaimed then and there that all nerves depended wholly on the arterial system for their qualities, such as sensation, nutrition and motion, even though by the law of reciprocity they furnished force, nutrition and sensation to the artery itself, and further proclaimed that the brain of man was God’s rug store land had all liquids, drugs, lubricating oils, opiates, acids and anti-acids, and every quality of drugs that the w I s d o m of God thought necessary for human happiness and health”

A.T. Still Autobiography p 219

Osteopathic Studies is pleased to announce a new course focused on the vascular system. We visited Maurice several times with the Osteopathy Studies team. It is a privilege to be trained by him and to receive his knowledge and skills. His vast experience, his dedication to osteopathy and his drive to share the knowledge he has acquired make him invaluable to our educational program.

In this new course, the Osteopathic Studies team guides you through the complicated connections of the arterial and venous system, in relation to the organs, the heart and the brain. By understanding these connections, we can improve our osteopathic skills and treat more accurately and effectively.

In this course you will be supported by a team of experienced colleagues, all trained by Maurice himself, and four of whom are teachers at the various osteopathy schools. This dedicated team provides lectures and hands-on labs to each individual and assists with the other classes, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.

They share with you the extensive knowledge of Maurice, who has more than 35 years of experience, and guide you in discovering or deepening his way of working.

During the course you integrate osteopathic principles with the latest scientific insights into the vascular system. Anatomy and physiology will be the guiding principles for building up the part of the vascular system that we will work on in different labs. We will investigate how we can practically apply this knowledge and improve our diagnostic and treatment skills. Short theoretical sessions are followed by hands-on labs, in which we will refine working on the vascular system.

At the end of this course, the goal is to have a deeper understanding of the vascular system and its impact on health. Our goal is to improve your perception and precision of diagnoses and treatments, so that you can more fully integrate the vascular system into your treatments, which ultimately benefits patients. ‘Dig further and discover!’ Our team of table trainers is ready to support you and share their experiences and knowledge to help you grow as an osteopath.

Join us on this exciting journey to master the vascular system and take your skills to new heights.

Osteopathic Studies is a non-profit organization and strives for low-budget organization in every course. The Osteopathic Studies team volunteers to share knowledge and skills with other colleagues.

BASIC TOOLS DAY
Datum: April 3, 2025

A Basic Tools Day is organized prior to the course. This is a preparatory day, but also a training day to practice and/or repeat the principles of working with ‘springs’, compression, globality and ‘the Mechanism’. This day is recommended in preparation for the course. Even for those who have followed the Basic Tools Day before, it remains a useful practice day to improve their skills.

Date	April 3, 2025
Basic Tools Day	8am-5pm	Registration, reception coffee/tea Including lunch, coffee/tea/water.

Basic Tools Day costs: 95 euros.
No organization or teaching costs will be charged for the Basic Tools Day.

You can register for this interesting day on the registration form. No organization or teaching costs will be charged for this day. An amount is only charged for lunch/coffee/tea and room rental. Registration for this day is only possible in combination with the course ‘The Vascular System – A Cranial Approach.’

‘The Vascular System – A Cranial Osteopathic Approach’
April 4, 5, 6, 2025 (2.5 days)

Quotes:

“The artery is the river of life, health, and ease, and if muddy or impure disease follows.”

A. T. Still MD DO Autobiography

“A natural flow of blood is health; and disease is the effect of local or general disturbance of blood – that to excite the nerves causes muscles to contract and compress venous flow of blood to the hearth ; and the bones could be used as levers to relieve pressure on nerves, veins, and arteries.

A.T. Still Autobiography

With the 2.5 day very practical course “The Vascular System – A Cranial Osteopathic Approach” the Osteopathic Studies team takes you on a journey through the vascular system.
Starting from the veins and arteries themselves, we will use practical sessions to experience how we can diagnose and treat a lesion or inflammation. We will also pay attention to safety, where we will “work” with the heart, the viscera and the brain.

Maurice continues to reiterate that anatomy, physiology, structure, function are an important basis for diagnosis and treatment. In addition to this basic knowledge, visualization will also be used. We will combine and apply all of this through practical labs where we learn how to effectively use these different techniques to influence function during treatment.

In the course we go over the veins and arteries, the aorta, and various branches to and from costae, diaphragm, and viscerae as well as the vascular system to and from the brain.
We will use different techniques to help you find a lesion, obstruction and/or inflammation and show and feel that everything is connected.

Date:	April 4, 5 and 6, 2025
Day 1	8:00 AM – 8:30 AM	Registration, reception coffee/tea Including lunch, coffee/tea/water. Followed by joint drinks and dinner. Registration for dinner required.
Day 2	8:30 AM – 5:30 PM	Including lunch, coffee/tea and water
Day 3	8:30 AM – 1:00 PM	Including coffee/tea and water

Joint dinner: on Friday evening, April 4, Osteopathic Studies will organize a joint 3-course dinner (choice of meat/fish/vegetarian). On the registration form you can indicate allergies, intolerances, special preferences (including vegetarian, vegan, etc.). Registration required.

You can register separately for dinner and costs will be charged separately.

Course costs: 630.00 euros (excluding Basic Tools Day)
Joint dinner costs: 35-45 euros

Included are coffee, tea, water and 2x lunch. Not included are dinner, drinks and overnight stays. Participation in the course is always at your own risk. The course organization will send you a short health check.

Location

This year we are again happy to organize the course at Stadsvilla Sonsbeek in Arnhem.

Overnight stays:
Click here for an overview of accommodation options in the area.

Stadsvilla Sonsbeek
Tellegenlaan 3
6814 BT Arnhem

tel: 026-4465200
Mail: info@stadsvillasonsbeek.nl
Website: stadsvillasonsbeek.nl

If you would like an impression of what the courses and the Basic Tools Day look like, look under impressions and under previous courses.

‘Probably in no other practice than the osteopathic does personal therapeutic ability count for so much. Osteopathy exemplifies a distinct advance of the knowledge of the healing art, based primarily upon the etiologic diagnosis of many disorders, and as a consequence technical efficiency is dependent upon a high degree of skill and extended experience. This is something that cannot possibly be learned from text-books but demands the careful and painstaking instruction of sympathetic teachers, over a considerable period of time.’

Carl P. McConnell (Clinical Osteopathy, A.T. Still Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois 1917)

Pleasantly surprised by the nice comments on the Neurology course ‘Cortex I’ and the Basic Tools Day, Osteopathic Studies has decided once again Maurice Bensoussan, M.D., D.O., F.C.A. to bring to the Netherlands. Sharing and passing on his experience and skills before retiring is a major motivation for Maurice to come back to the Netherlands. Osteopathic Studies is pleased and proud to once again have the opportunity to take a course with Maurice Bensoussan, M.D., D.O., F.C.A. to organise. Also in this second edition of Neurology ‘Cortex I’ we take on the challenge together with Maurice to perfect our ‘techniques’ and way of working from a neurological perspective.

During this course, where neuroanatomy serves as a guideline for practice, Maurice will be supported by a team of experienced colleagues. This enthusiastic team of teachers work at different osteopathic schools. All are trained by Maurice and a few lectures and labs will be given by them. Maurice will of course be the headteacher of this inspiring course.

In ‘Neurology: Cortex I’ Maurice Bensoussan combines the osteopathic principles with new scientific insights and knowledge in neurology. All embedded in his 35 years of experience!

How to use your neurologic knowledge in an effective way? Maurice and his team will give short theoretical introductions followed by the labs. The labs teach us how to use our new insights and we will develop our perception in an other way. At the end of the course we will be more precise and more efficient in our treatments. ‘Dig on and explore’! Our team of table-trainers will support you. They like to share their experiences and their knowledge.

“Osteopathic Studies is a non-profit organisation and tries to organize low-budget courses.”

BASIC TOOLS DAY Datum: June 22th 2021

Prior to the course Neurology ‘Cortex I’ we organize an Basic Tools Day. On this day Maurice will repeat his principles of working with the ‘springs’, compression(according to Rollin Becker) and ‘the Mechanism’ . This day is a must as a preparation for the course. Even for those who participated the course ‘New Tools in Osteopathy’Vertebral Column.

On the registration-form there is a paragraph to subscribe for this inspiring day. We will not charge organisation- and teaching costs for this day. We will only charge an amount for lunch/coffee/tea and classroom hire. You will receive information about the price. Again: it is only possible to register for this day in combination with the course Neurology ‘Cortex I’

June 2023, 23, 24, 25. (2 days and a half)

‘ Of all parts of the body of man to be well studied, the brain should bet he most attractive. It is the place where all force centers, where all nerves connect to one common battery. By its orders the laboratory of life begins to move on crude material and labors until blood is formed and becomes food for all nerves first; then the arteries and veins by nerve action and forces, tos uit each class of work tob e done by that set of nerves which is to construct forms; keep blood constantly in motion by arteries and from all parts back to the heart, through the veins, that teh blood may be purified, renewed and re-enter the arteries tob e taken to all places of need.‘

A.T. Still (Phyiosophy of Osteopathy, Kirksvill Mo., 1899 pg 47-48)

‘Problems that arise in the Primary Respiratory Mechanism, especially the membranes and preosseus elements, might influence the brain, cranial nerves, hypothalamus and along the floor and side of the third ventricle, which contains the primary centers of the autonomic system, thus presenting a possible basis for nervous and mental reactions’

Robert C. Fulford (Are we on the path? Theresa A. Cisler, The Cranial Academy, 2003 pg 33)

In this 2,5 day practical orientated course Neurology ‘Cortex I’ takes Maurice Bensoussan will take us on a journey through the brain. Starting with the cortex we will notice in practical sessions how we can localise certain parts of the cortex. Using anatomy, physiology, structure, function and visualisation we learn by practical labs how we can use these areas in a effective way during treatment.

We will use the cortex as a point of engagement to learn to work with neurology, because everything starts and ends there, directly … indirectly. A short overview of the embryology of the brain, some important histological points of engagement for treatment, the structure of the cortex, how does the cortex work, recognize the most cortical areas and how to treat them are items we will overlook together. Other items: the membranous system, the ventricular system with the LCS, cingulate and insular cortex, diencephalon with thalamus, mesencephalon, basal gangla, the motoric system, localisation, what is normal/abnormal and how to ‘reset’ the nervous system. Maurice Bensoussan will tell us about his experiences and treatment of clinical neurological syndromes as Epilepsy, Parkinson and Pain.

Dates:	June 2023, 23, 24, 25
Times:	08.00 h	Register, reception with coffee/tea
	08.30 u – 17.30 h	inclusive lunch, followed by a joint drink
	08.30 u – 17.30 h
	08.30 u – 13.00 h

Joint diner: on Friday evening June 22th Osteopathic Studies will book places for a joint 3- course dinner (choice meat/fish/vegetarian). At the registration-form you can indicate allergies, intollerance, special preferences. Registration is necessary.

Costs course: 590,00 Euro

Included: coffee, tea, water, 2x lunch. Excluded: Basic Tools Day, dinner, drinks and overnight stay.

Location

Because last year we liked Stadsvilla Sonsbeek so much, we are happy to organize the course at this location again this year.

Click here for an overview of accommodation options in the area.

Location

Stadsvilla Sonsbeek Tellegenlaan 3
6814 BT Arnhem

tel: 026-4465200 Mail: info@stadsvillasonsbeek.nl Website: stadsvillasonsbeek.nl

REGISTER NOW FOR THE COURSE

It is necessary to register. Maximum amount of participants is 36, minimum 16. The course will be cancelled when there are not enough participants. When the maximum is reached you will be placed on a waiting list.

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