• Compare the effectiveness of chiropractic spinal manipulation versus sham manipulation in children aged 7-14 with recurrent headaches.
• Outline current evidence on the functional changes associated with neck pain in adolescents.
• Investigate the role of chronic physical illness, mental health disorders and psychological conditions as potential triggers or risk factors for low back pain in children, adolescents, and young adults.
• Estimate whether carrying a heavier schoolbag (> 10% of bodyweight) is associated with a higher prevalence of low back pain in children between the ages 9 and 16.
• Examine the changes that are occurring in young athlete’s development and implications on movement, performance, and injury.

Hour 1 

• Describe recommended health guidance for infants.
• Analyze evidence-based research with regards to the efficacy of spinal mobilization and soft tissue treatment in the infant.
• Develop a treatment plan in how to teach parents how to anticipate safety needs and promote healthy musculoskeletal practices for their babies.

 Hour 2

• Discuss important developmental changes that mark the transition from infancy to early childhood.
• Describe recommended health guidance for toddlers.
• Analyze the data surrounding chiropractic care for the toddler child, with a focus on spinal manipulation.
• Identify safety precautions that can be implemented in and outside of the office for toddlers.

Hour 3

• Discuss the developmental changes that mark the transition from the toddler to school-aged child.
• Describe recommended health guidance for preschoolers.
• Analyze the data surrounding chiropractic care for the school aged child, with a focus on spinal manipulation.
• Discuss the motor, verbal and neurological findings of developmental milestones in children.

Hour 1

• Explain the necessity of evidence for infant healthcare
• Describe what mothers want from healthcare for their newborn?
• Outline the need for and development of the United Kingdom Infant Questionnaire
• Cite the outcomes of infant care in chiropractic practice and the adaptability of a parent-reported outcome measure to the infant population

Hour 1:

• Learn age-appropriate general health screening and health education for babies.
• Analyze through evidence the use of chiropractic manipulation for pregnant women.
• Identify normal growth, development and behavior and their assessment, as well as approaches to abnormalities for neonatals.
• Describe a typical pediatric examination on a neonatal.

Hour 2:

• Learn age-appropriate general health screening and health education for toddlers.
• Analyze through evidence the use of chiropractic manipulation for toddlers through young children.
• Identify normal growth, development and behavior and their assessment, as well as approaches to abnormalities from infancy through toddlers.
• Describe a typical pediatric examination on an infant 1-5 years old.

Hour 3:

• Learn age-appropriate general health screening and health education for adolescents.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury (through accident and sport) in children.
• Discuss and describe typical examination forms and outcome assessment tools used for the pediatric population.
• Evaluate through clinical cases and it’s management.

• This contains all courses with the educational objectives listed from Pediatrics 116 through Pediatrics 119

Hour 1

• Discover what primitive reflexes are and why we have them
• Understand the various possible causes of retained primitive reflexes in a child
• Outline common questions that would suggest retention of primitive reflexes
• Identify and assess eight primitive reflexes that can be easily evaluated by a doctor of chiropractic, specifically the Moro, Grasp, Spinal Galant, Rooting, Asymmetrical Tonic Neck, Symmetrical Tonic Neck, Tonic Labyrinthine, and the Landau reflexes.

Hour 2

• Further identify and assess the remaining of the eight primitive reflexes not covered in the first hour
• Detect the presence or absence of specific primitive reflexes
• Recognize the need for intervention when a retained primitive reflex is demonstrated by a patient
• Prescribe a specific course of treatment for each of the eight primitive reflexes if they are determined to be retained

• Determine the epidemiology of low back pain in children and adolescents
• Assess the risk factors associated with back pain in school children
• Outline the effect of an intervention to improve sitting habits in schoolchildren
• Assess the effects of reading a book or using a computer on neck and upper back muscle activity in children

• Describe and utilize an effective but non-invasive treatment for warts
• Understand the risk versus benefit of diagnostic imaging radiation in children
• Recognize patterns of pain in children that might actually indicate malignancies
• Develop an understanding of pediatric atlantooccipital dislocation
• Be able to perform 5 minute infant physical examination to detect congenital anomalies of the musculoskeletal system