Sports chiropractic does not begin with a professional team—it begins in the community. This two-hour interactive, hands-on program is designed to prepare chiropractic students,
interns, recent graduates, and practicing doctors to confidently evaluate and care for athletes in the environments where most sports chiropractic actually takes place: private practice, high schools, youth sports, gyms, running clubs, recreational leagues, tournaments, community events, and sidelines.
Dr. Spencer Baron and Dr. Darius Espinosa will combine clinical instruction, hands-on demonstrations, case-based learning, and real-world sports chiropractic experience to teach participants how to move beyond simply identifying where an athlete hurts and begin asking a more important question: What is preventing this athlete from moving, recovering, and performing normally?
The program will emphasize practical spinal and extremity adjusting procedures for the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine, as well as the foot, ankle, toes, knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and related kinetic-chain structures.
Participants will learn techniques that can be performed both with and without a traditional chiropractic table, an essential skill when working at athletic events, community screenings, training facilities, or on the sideline.
Beyond adjusting technique, the course will address functional assessment, movement evaluation, neurological and myofascial considerations, technology, documentation, communication, referral decisions, and collaboration with coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, physicians, and other members of the sports healthcare team.
The goal is not simply to teach more adjustments.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate foundational spinal and extremity adjusting techniques commonly utilized with athletic and physically active populations, with and without a traditional chiropractic table.
- Apply functional assessment and clinical reasoning to identify musculoskeletal and movement-related findings and determine appropriate chiropractic management for common sports-related presentations.
- Integrate spinal, extremity, neurological, myofascial, and movement-based findings to develop comprehensive approaches to injury management, recovery, and return to activity.
- Differentiate patients appropriate for chiropractic management from those requiring additional evaluation, imaging, referral, or emergency care.
- Develop practical strategies for delivering sports chiropractic care in clinical, sideline, screening, and community settings while collaborating with coaches, athletic organizations, and other healthcare professionals. Practice environment into the surrounding athletic community.