Infants and children
Your osteopath, Véronique RAPUZZI, offers to take care of your child regardless of their age.
To achieve this, she undertook postgraduate training at EUROSTEO, led by Dr. Philippe MAHE (a recognized teacher in pediatric osteopathy, in charge of pediatric osteopathy consultations at the CHU Nord of Marseille for 13 years).
Your osteopath's actions have two objectives:
- An immediate objective which consists of responding to the reason for consultation stated by the parents (baby cries a lot, eats poorly and/or regurgitates, does not sleep well, is often sick, cannot perform certain movements, etc....)
- A preventative objective for the child's future:
"A newborn is not a miniature adult, but an adult in the making" (Ph. MAHE)
During the pediatric consultation, I suggest you check:
- Your child's different growth curves,
- its psychomotor development according to age,
- its sensory development (sight, hearing, smell....),
- its general mobility as well as its joint mobility,
- his posture, his balance...
- his skull and spine.
I work closely with the general practitioner, the pediatrician and other child health professionals to ensure that my young patient receives optimal care that contributes to their harmonious, healthy and functional development.
Older children and teenagers
Véronique RAPUZZI, Osteopath DO, offers to receive children during the school year and to respond to their specific needs according to the difficulties they encounter.
Any academic delay should alert parents to a possible functional cause.
So-called "growing pains", prolonged and/or unexplained fatigue, decreased attendance at classes, frequent infectious diseases... should be taken as different warning signs.
Ms. RAPUZZI will check all postural inputs of the child/adolescent (vision, feet, leg length, screening for scoliosis and other spinal deformities.....) see the "posturology" tab of this site.
Ms. RAPUZZI will strive to compensate and regulate all facial tensions during orthodontic treatments in order to shorten the treatments by making them less invasive in terms of the child's posture.
Here again, Véronique RAPUZZI will work closely with orthodontists, physiotherapists, psychologists, speech therapists, dieticians... in the best interests of the child.
