Student Learning Outcomes:

• Describe how musculoskeletal, postural and biomechanical factors affect fertility.
  
• Identify patients that may benefit from treatment of somatic dysfunction before pregnancy, including patients with:
  1. Short leg syndrome
  2. Chronic pelvic pain
  3. Chronic low back pain
  
• Discuss maternal musculoskeletal/ structural changes associated with pregnancy.
• Describe how osteopathic manipulation may affect the physiology of pregnancy.
  
• Perform musculoskeletal, postural and biomechanical screening exams throughout prenatal care, with consideration of value-based care.
  
• Perform the treatments for common somatic dysfunctions in pregnancy, including:
  1. Round ligament syndrome
  2. Pubic shear
  3. Carpal tunnel syndrome
  4. Low back pain
  
• Prepare the female pelvis for delivery via osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) in the third trimester.
  
• Discuss the normal and abnormal structural, musculoskeletal and biomechanical changes of the postpartum period, including:
  1. Involution of the uterus and how it affects pelvic structures
  2. Persistent low back pain after pregnancy
  
• Describe the common somatic dysfunctions of the postpartum period and describe their corresponding osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMT)
  1. Symphysis diaphysis
  2. Sacroilial dysfunction
  3. Pubic shear
  4. Low back pain
  5. Breast engorgement and mastitis
  6. Postpartum depression