Correlative Case Studies in Sports Chiropractic

Course overview

This 12-hour course will provide the Doctor of Chiropractic with current information and practical skills relating to the chiropractic assessment and management of athletes and the patient with extremity sports injuries. The presentation emphasizes the psychomotor skills required to perform physical examinations, and related adjustive techniques for sports related extremity conditions and didactic synthesis of case studies. The course emphasizes and utilizes case studies and hands-on-learning of the techniques used with commonly encountered conditions in the athletic population. Specific topics include the cardiac examination special populations in sport, examination of the athlete with concussion, shoulder instability, knee traumas, ankle trauma sprain, compartment syndromes, hip injuries, elbow tendinopathies, and wrist and hand injuries.