Virginia Chiropractic Continuing Education

• Review the signs and symptoms of neuroinflammation and the processes that drive neurodegeneration.
• Identify the neurological signs and symptoms of long COVID and apply research-based protocols.
• Utilize dietary improvements and selected supplements to reduce neuroinflammation.
• Treatment protocols on testing to identify gut barrier and gut-brain axis imbalances.
• Recognize that neuroplasticity plays a fluctuating but essential role in health and trauma.
• Understand the effect of bacterial toxins originating in the gut on the gut-brain axis as a key to neurological disorders pathogenesis.
• Assess intestinal and blood-brain barrier dysfunction for better managing chronic neurological disorders.
• Understand new functional nutritional strategies for longevity.
• Incorporate leading-edge protocols for extending healthspan and longevity.
• Clarify the effects of intermittent fasting on immunity and longevity.
• Recognize that neuroplasticity plays a fluctuating but essential role in health and trauma.
• Integrate optimal lifestyle adaptations in diet, exercise, and supplement protocols to enhance neuroplasticity and improve quality of life.

• Understand basic concepts of health
• Identify the health spectrum
• Investigate the various facts associated with aging
• Investigate the various theories of aging

• Explain basic concepts of health
• Identify the health spectrum
• Investigate the various facts associated with aging
• Determine the difference between sickly aging and normal aging
• Investigate the various theories of aging

• This contains all courses with the educational objectives listed from Nutrition 201 to Nutrition 212

• Recognize the most common theory of aging
• Determine the risks associated with being sedentary
• Identify the effect of exercise on the cardiovascular system
• Describe how exercise affects cholesterol and cancer
• Examine the various components of an exercise program

• Identify which exercises are best for health and longevity
• Investigate the relationship between exercise and antioxidants
• Recognize basic concepts of stress
• Explain how stress and other emotions can cause disease and ill health
• Determine the relationship between nutrition and stress

• Differentiate the relationship between various stress reducing techniques
• Identify how social relationships, religion and prayer can affect health and aging
• Investigate the negative and positive factors from consuming alcohol
• Recognize how alcohol affects nutrition
• Identify how smoking affects health

• Identify the relationship between nutrition and smoking
• Investigate the relationship between second hand smoke and nutrition
• Identify various smoking cessation techniques
• Identify the role of antioxidants and free radicals
• Examine the relationship between antioxidants and heart disease

• Determine the relationship between diet, cancer, and the environment
• Identify various antioxidants that can affect cancer
• Describe how caloric restriction affects longevity
• Explore basic concepts of weight control and obesity
• Recognize how obesity affects overall health and promotes disease

• Identify various dietary patterns and habits
• Determine how diet patterns affect health and promote disease
• Explore the typical American diet pattern
• Review the vegetarian diet pattern
• Analyze the Mediterranean diet pattern and its components

• Identify why fruits and vegetables are anti-aging foods
• Determine how fruits and vegetables offer health benefits
• Select what components of fish have positive effects on health
• Investigate how fish affects cardiovascular disease and cancer
• Identify how garlic affects health and inhibits disease

• Demonstrate the role grains have in health and longevity
• Explain the basics of fiber and how it can affect health and disease
• Identify how nuts can positively affect health and decrease disease
• Investigate how legumes and soy can affect heart disease
• Relate how legumes and soy can affect cancer

• Recognize the beneficial components of yogurt
• Identify how yogurt can affect the immune system
• Define what prebiotics are and how they affect health
• Describe how chocolate can promote health and longevity
• Explore how tea can positively affect health and decrease disease risk

• Identify what the beneficial components of wine are
• Determine the how and when of wine consumption
• Explain basic concepts of water and signs of dehydration
• List how water affects disease and promotes health
• Identify who is susceptible to nutrient deficiencies

• Determine the relationship between a daily multiple vitamin and health
• Analyze how growth hormone can promote health and possibly slow aging
• Explain the risk versus benefit of using testosterone and melatonin
• Recognize the role of DHEA and DHEA-S on health and longevity
• Identify the main concepts of an anti-aging strategy

• Identify differences between strength and balance training
• Discuss the dynamic aspects of posture
• Learn aspects of Postural control in chronic LBP patients
• Understand relationship of posture and sports injuries
• Review some concepts of posture, mobility and pain in children

• This contains all courses with the educational objectives listed from Ortho 102 through Ortho 117.

• Review normal cervical biomechanics and apply to examination
• Discuss some effects of manipulation on EMG/ROM
• Recognize lumbar movements during mobilization
• Discuss how whiplash invisibility is not evidence of absence of injury
• Understand muscle adaptation through stretching

• Distinguish Chiropractic influences on muscular strength
• Develop the use of hand-held dynamometry in chiropractic practice
• Identify basic strength training principles for chiropractors
• Construct basics of strength training guidelines for all ages

• Review an Introduction to the Clinical Biomechanics of Stability
• Identify causes of select musculoskeletal injuries
• Describe how LBP in golfers alters motor control
• Describe spinal stability changes with posture
• Distinguish how stability improves with resistance training

• Describe neck anticipatory control with pain
• Describe lateralized fatigue with unilateral neck pain
• Assess head and trunk motion during neck manipulation
• Identify neuromuscular dysfunction in neck pain patients
• Outline exercises for the rehabilitation of neck neuromuscular dysfunction

• Discuss the biomechanical, physiological and psychological evidence for the use of back belts
• Identify and describe recent recommendations and findings for the use of back belts.
• Discuss the principle of affordances and how they relate to environmental constraints (such as a back belt) and posture.

• Summarize the affects of low back health status on low back disorder risk
• Discuss the relation between lumbar curvature and LBP risk factors during postural loading
• Assess the relation between asymmetric lifting and spine loading
• Describe the differences in spine kinematics between LBP patients and normal controls
• Analyze the functional deficits that occur following low back disorders

• Summarize recommendations for backpack use
• Appraise recent research on backpacks and human health
• Discuss the effects of backpacks on musculoskeletal and non-musculoskeletal variables
• Describe current studies on backpack use in children: perceptions, load, biomechanics, physiology

• Learn current perspectives on which structures are strongly but variably linked to back pain
• Review the state-of-the art in low back disorders research applied to ergonomics
• Describe workplace design guidelines for asymptomatic and low back pain workers
• Determine the influence of exercise on lumbar spine disorders

• Identify common underlying causes of non-organic pain
• Recognize the eight Waddell signs of non-organic back pain
• Develop a level of knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of the medicolegal system as it relates to Waddell signs
• Encourage development and nurturing of skill sets in utilizing Waddell signs

• 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
• Review the diagnostic criteria of tension-type headaches in children

• Describe the basic principles of postural control
• Clinically assess postural control
• Outline a protocol of postural rehabilitation

• Examine the association between chiropractic spinal manipulation for newly diagnosed lumbar disc herniation and/or lumbosacral radiculopathy and the odds of lumbar discectomy over 1-year and 2-year follow-up periods 
• Evaluate the clinical outcomes and MRI changes in a cohort of patients who had surgery compared to conservative treatment for sequestered lumbar disc herniations 
• Summarize existing evidence relating to the reliability of the straight leg raise (SLR) and crossed SLR test in patients with suspected lumbar radicular pain 
• Establish the validity of the extended straight leg raise (ESLR) compared to findings on MRI 
• Recognize the effectiveness of neural mobilization interventions in improving pain, disability, and function in adults with low back and radicular pain

Hour 1

• Describe four purposes for performing orthopedic tests
• Describe three approaches to performing orthopedic tests
• Discuss the clinical importance of pertinent negative findings when performing orthopedic tests
• Discuss the concept of “Evidence Based Medicine”
• Define “Orthopedic Test Item Cluster”
• Describe several metrics used in the validation of orthopedic tests for inclusion in orthopedic test item clusters

 Hour 2

• Describe three Orthopedic Test Item Clusters (OSTs) relevant to the evaluation of the sacroiliac region
• Describe the five procedures included in the Laslett Cluster #2 for the assessment of sacroiliac pain
• Describe the two primary types of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
• Discuss the clinical utility of the Bakody Test and the Reverse Bakody Test

 Hour 3

• Describe four testing procedures included in Wainner’s Cluster for the assessment of cervical radiculopathy
• Describe Cook’s Cervical Myelopathy Cluster
• Discuss potential problems that may arise in the application of OST clusters
• Discuss ways to minimize inappropriate application of OST clusters