General considerations in extremity care:

• To develop a general approach protocol for the treatment of extremity conditions

• Understanding acute protocol treatment

• Learning cold and heat treatment protocols

• Vertebral subluxations play a major role in extremity conditions

Nutritional support for extremity injuries, acute/chronic:

• Acute nutritional support protocols

• Chronic or ongoing supportive nutritional protocols

• Diagnostic testing considerations for acute or chronic extremity conditions

Structural and neurological influences to the lower extremities:

• How pelvic misalignments influence and create knee misalignments

• Vertebral subluxations of the lower lumbar spine and its influences to lower extremity

• conditions

• Foot and arch instabilities and how they influence lower extremity conditions

General knee misalignments and conditions:

• Procedures for line drawing analysis on x-ray for a routine comparative knee series

• Static and motion palpation for proper evaluation of the conditions and misalignments

• Differential diagnosis for specific knee conditions

• Specific knee conditions (acute and chronic):

• Osgood Schlatter's

• Baker's cyst

• Nursemaid's knee

• Patellar dislocation

General foot and ankle conditions and misalignments:

• Proper motion and static palpation of the foot and ankle

• General considerations resulting from inversion sprain, dynamics

• Plantar fascia conditions, acute and chronic

X-ray protocols Review:

• X-ray analysis - a reasonable and customary factor in the treatment of extremity conditions

• The routine, standard views for the extremities

• Specialty views that apply for specific extremity conditions

• Specific x-ray conditions

• Specific procedures in patient positioning

• Patient protection

• Weight-bearing joints need to be x-rayed in anatomically neutral, while weight-bearing for

• proper analytical value

• Proper x-ray positioning for the lower extremities, weight-bearing, positioned to anatomical

• neutral at specialty views

• X-ray analysis protocols for the lower extremities

The shoulder complex assessment and adjustment procedures:

• Signs and symptoms for specific shoulder complex misalignments and conditions

• Neurological and orthopedic exam procedures:

• X-ray protocols and procedures

• X-ray analysis

• Motion Palpation

• Corrective adjustment

• Case management protocols

• Specific shoulder conditions, signs and symptoms

• X-ray presentation protocols for misalignments

• Static and motion palpation and corrective adjustment procedures

• Differential diagnosis of rotator cuff syndrome vs. bicep tendon misalignment

Elbow conditions:

• Specific signs and symptoms for elbow conditions

• X-ray protocols and procedures for the elbow

• Specific static and motion palpation and corrective procedures for the elbow

• Specific analytical procedures

• Specific case management

• Differential diagnosis of tennis elbow vs. golfers elbow

Wrist and hand conditions:

• Specific signs and symptoms for wrist and hand conditions

• X-ray protocols and procedures for the wrist and hand

• Specific static and motion palpation and corrective procedures for the wrist and hand

• Specific analytical procedures

• Specific case management

• Differential diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome vs. pronator tres syndrome vs. supinator syndrome

Certification Test:

• Written and Practical Examination for reserved attendees only.