Modern Pediatric Chiropractic Care: Hands-On Cranial Therapy Workshop: Condensed Protocol for Newborns, Infants, and Young Children

Session Information

Regional Event: national
Start Date: 08/22/2025 10:20 am
End Date: 08/22/2025 12:00 pm
Location: Celebration 2

Speakers in this session...

  • Elise Hewitt

    Sponsors

    Elise Hewitt DC, DICCP, FICC

    A board-certified pediatric Doctor of Chiropractic and  

    one of the foremost authorities in the specialty of  

    chiropractic pediatrics, Dr. Elise Hewitt has focused her 

    37-year career on improving children’s health with  

    chiropractic care.  

    An alumnus of the University of Colorado and a Summa  

    Cum Laude graduate of Western States Chiropractic  

    College (now UWS), Dr. Hewitt served for 10 years as  

    President of the Pediatrics Council of the American  

    Chiropractic Association (ACA).  

    Dr. Hewitt currently serves as the Founding Program Director for Logan University’s  Master of Science in Chiropractic Pediatrics program. In addition, she treats children in  her pediatrics-only practice, is a member of the prestigious NCMIC Speakers Bureau, and  has taught at the post-graduate level for numerous chiropractic institutions and  associations worldwide.  

    Dr. Hewitt serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine (JCM) and  is a peer reviewer for several science journals. Her own peer-reviewed publications  include consensus studies on pediatric best practices (JMPT 2009, 2016) and core competencies of the pediatric specialist (JEBCAM 2016), as well as an evaluation of  forces used in pediatric spinal manipulation (JMPT 2017). Dr. Hewitt has authored  chapters in the textbooks Pediatric Chiropractic (Anrig and Plaugher, 3rd edition) and  Integrative Pediatrics (Culbert and Olness, 1st edition). 

    Dr. Hewitt was honored to be named 2023 Academician of the Year by the ACA and 2019  Pediatric Chiropractic of the Year by the ACA Pediatrics Council. In 2017, she received the  Rising Star Award from the American Public Health Association’s Chiropractic Health  Care Section, and was named Oregon’s 2016 Chiropractor of the Year. In 2008, Dr. Hewitt  was elected as a Fellow into the International College of Chiropractors (FICC).  

    A founding member of both the ACA and the ICA Pediatrics Councils, Dr. Hewitt believes  no single practitioner of any healthcare field holds the key to a child’s health and we best  serve our patients by working together to optimize the health and wellbeing of all children. 

    Sessions...

    Modern Pediatric Chiropractic Care: Hands-On Cranial Therapy Workshop: Condensed Protocol for Newborns, Infants, and Young Children
    Regional Event: national
    Start Date: 08/22/2025 10:20 am
    End Date: 08/22/2025 12:00 pm
    Location: Celebration 2
    Session details

    In this workshop, Dr. Hewitt will introduce attendees to the branch of manual therapies known as cranial therapy and help Doctors of Chiropractic feel comfortable utilizing this technique on young patients. Dr. Hewitt will discuss the basics of this gentle form of care, including the history of cranial therapies, relevant components of the cranial-dural system, general cranial therapy guidelines, and contraindications for application of the technique.

    Dr. Hewitt will then walk attendees through specific cranial techniques for the newborn and infant patient using demonstrations on a model plus video clips of actual treatment sessions, including technique modifications to implement as the child ages. As always throughout her classes, Dr. Hewitt will pepper her instruction with clinical pearls from her 37 years of experience in pediatric practice. It will be helpful for attendees to bring a doll to class to be able to follow along kinesthetically as Dr. Hewitt demonstrates these techniques.

    Learning Objectives

    1. Explain the rationale underlying cranial therapy.
    2. Describe the components of the cranial system.
    3. Discuss contraindications for the application of cranial therapy.
    4. Demonstrate the condensed six-step cranial therapy protocol.

     

    Sponsor – Logan University

     

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In this workshop, Dr. Hewitt will introduce attendees to the branch of manual therapies known as cranial therapy and help Doctors of Chiropractic feel comfortable utilizing this technique on young patients. Dr. Hewitt will discuss the basics of this gentle form of care, including the history of cranial therapies, relevant components of the cranial-dural system, general cranial therapy guidelines, and contraindications for application of the technique.

Dr. Hewitt will then walk attendees through specific cranial techniques for the newborn and infant patient using demonstrations on a model plus video clips of actual treatment sessions, including technique modifications to implement as the child ages. As always throughout her classes, Dr. Hewitt will pepper her instruction with clinical pearls from her 37 years of experience in pediatric practice. It will be helpful for attendees to bring a doll to class to be able to follow along kinesthetically as Dr. Hewitt demonstrates these techniques.

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain the rationale underlying cranial therapy.
  2. Describe the components of the cranial system.
  3. Discuss contraindications for the application of cranial therapy.
  4. Demonstrate the condensed six-step cranial therapy protocol.

 

Sponsor – Logan University

 

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