Seminars For Continuing Education

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Continuing Education for Chiropractors

Teaching Webinars

Mastering the Disc: Mechanical Assessment of the Spine & Extremities

Learn from Dr. Jonathan Lesch in a "roll up your sleeves" approach that lets you custom design the best treatment for each patient, so you can expect immediate and dramatic results with every new patient.

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Flagship Course

Mastering the Disc: Mechanical Assessment of the Spine

6 CE Hours$135Online Webinar

The complete program. Diagnose and treat neck and back pain at its source using end-range loading, directional preference and centralization, plus core strengthening, mobility screens, lifting and bending, sacroiliac joints, extremities and headaches.

Chronic Pain Syndromes

Disc Disease: Mastering the Disc in Lower Back Pain

2 CE Hours$40Online Webinar

Become an expert in treating back pain by focusing on the disc. Learn to diagnose, discuss and treat common disc conditions with specific disc-reducing exercises that relieve pressure on the sprained annular wall, then layer in stretching and core work once the structural problem is corrected.

Headaches

Cervicogenic Headaches: Practical Evaluation & Treatment Methods

3 CE Hours$60Online Webinar

Specific screening tools and treatment methods for the most common mechanical causes of headaches: disc problems, upper crossed syndrome and reduced cervical curves. Quickly tell whether a patient's headaches are mechanical and follow a proven treatment strategy.

Neck & Back

Evaluation and Treatment of Neck and Back Pain

2 CE Hours$40Online Webinar

Understand how spinal discs behave mechanically and why they drive most neck and back pain. Covers end-range loading, directional preference, centralization, disc-reducing exercises and mobilizations, core strengthening, mobility screens and proper lifting and bending.

All courses are offered as webinars through Northeast College of Health Sciences / Frank J. Nicchi School of Continuing Education. Please confirm with your state board that a course is approved for your CE credit.

What Doctors Are Saying

"I have very easily incorporated many of your hands-on techniques to help my patients. The style of your seminar reflected your genuine understanding of the functioning of the human anatomy.

I have been in practice since 1985 and your teaching seminar ranks with the chiropractic pioneer J. Clay Thompson as my best classes ever attended. You have a great gift to share with our chiropractic world.

It is nice to attend a seminar that enhances the healing hands of a chiropractor and not just a new gadget or widget that makes us more money. Keep spreading your message."

Joseph Paglione, DC, Morrisville, PA

Seminar Highlights

Effective techniques for the spine and extremities
The role of the disc in neck & back pain
Effective disc-reducing exercises & mobilizations
End-range loading strategies that lead to a more specific diagnosis and treatment
Critical markers such as centralization, directional preference and more
Evidence-based care you can provide your patients with certainty
Common misdiagnoses and misconceptions
Building relationships with M.D.s
Patient education
Stabilization exercises, functional movement screening and more

Mastering the Disc Course Outline

Part 1

Introduction
Disc Derangements
Evaluation/Treatment Models
Mechanical vs. Chemical Pain
Evaluation and Treatment of Lumbar Disc Derangements (including core strengthening exercises, functional assessment screening, regional interdependence, report of findings)
- A. Posterior Disc Derangements
- B. Anterior Disc Derangements
Irreducible Derangements/Spinal Stenosis
Proper Lifting and Bending

Part 2

Review
Evaluation and Treatment of Thoracic Disc Derangements
Evaluation and Treatment of Cervical Disc Derangements (including core strengthening exercises, functional assessment screening, regional interdependence, report of findings)
- A. Posterior Disc Derangements
- B. Anterior Disc Derangements
Sacroiliac Joint Derangements
Expanding Your Practice with Structural Rehabilitation
Evaluation and Treatment of Common Extremity Derangements
Building Relationships with the Medical Community

Take the Guesswork Out of Lower Back Pain

Go beyond the limitations of traditional orthopedic testing and learn how dynamic, exciting and simple the evaluation and treatment of neck and back pain can truly be.