Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation Procedures
Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation: Essential Cranial Procedures for the Chiropractic Practice
Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) and palatal distortions can have a profound impact on cranial development, airway function, latching, speech, posture, and neurological integration—especially in infants and young children.
In this targeted online course, you’ll learn how to accurately evaluate and address tongue-tie and palate imbalances using safe, gentle, and effective cranial techniques. You’ll gain insight into how oral and cranial restrictions affect the entire body—and how to support optimal outcomes through chiropractic care.
This training empowers chiropractors to play a critical role in identifying dysfunctions early, guiding parents through care options, and offering structural corrections that often reduce the need for more invasive procedures.
What You’ll Learn
- Detailed evaluation protocols for tongue, lip, and buccal ties
- Visual and manual assessment strategies for high, narrow, or distorted palates
- Step-by-step cranial techniques to support palate expansion and normalize oral function
- How to recognize compensatory patterns affecting the jaw, cranium, and spine
- Guidance for collaboration with other birth and oral health professionals
Resources Provided
- Video class modules
- Evaluation & technique presentations
- Practical demonstrations
- Calls to action (CTAs)
- Complete PDF workbooks
- Full transcriptions of video classes
- Email access to Dr. Rosen & Dr. Watson
Why Take This Course?
- Early identification and correction of tongue-tie and palate issues can prevent long-term problems with feeding, breathing, speech, and neurological development
- Chiropractors are uniquely positioned to identify structural dysfunctions that are often overlooked in traditional screenings
- Hands-on protocols you can implement immediately to support both infants and children in your practice
Who Is This Course For?
Chiropractors who want to:
- Elevate their pediatric care with advanced cranial and oral assessment tools
- Provide non-invasive support to families navigating tethered oral tissue diagnoses
- Integrate functional cranial corrections into a neurologically-based chiropractic practice
Tongue-tie and palate distortions don’t just affect the mouth—they influence the entire cranial and spinal system. This course gives you the tools to assess and address these patterns confidently, improving outcomes for your youngest patients and their families.
Course Contents
12 Modules | 12 CTAs
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Module 01 Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks
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Module 02 Cranial Bone Motion
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Module 03 The Dural Meningeal System and CSF
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Module 04 Anatomy and Movement of the Palate
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Module 05 Evaluation of the Palate
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Module 06 Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate
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Module 07 Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships
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Module 08 Corrections for Palate Distortions
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Module 09 Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation
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Module 10 Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques
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Module 11 Tongue-Tie
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Module 12 Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture
Meet the Instructors
As early as first quarter in chiropractic school they were attracted to each other’s commitment to chiropractic and the pursuit of excellence. Their combined 80 years of personal and clinical and teaching experience, in delivering the chiropractic adjustment is unparalleled in the chiropractic profession. Their international outreach through teaching, writing and lecturing has been a driving force in their personal and professional careers since their first seminar taught together as students, in 1979.
Their years of experience have taught them what works and what does not work to create a successful practice and lifestyle. The more competent and comprehensive your expertise you will find that more patients will seek your services and your practice will grow exponentially.
Feedback From Our Students
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Erin Carroll-Manning
I loved the structural explanations of the cranial. It really had me visualizing how everything is connected. I was surprised to learn that the narrower or flat the nasal passages the more difficult the drainage is. It makes sense. I always just thought of the palate pushing up. I really liked how we move our heads to breath and how important it is for the cranial to structurally be aligned for that.
I am able to explain to clients how things are connected and how important having the cranial aligned not only for breathing, but also for the CSF to flow in order to help keep up healthy physically and immune wise too. It makes sense that everything goes from the cranial to the tailbone. if that is not open or there is some type of obstruction how it can impact a growing child.
I will be advising clients to see chiropractors more often and not just for breast-feeding challenges.
Yes I would recommend this course. I think more people in my profession could use a class on how everything in the cranium is connected and if one structure is off how it can toss everything off. I do not think the majority of my industry understands the importance of functional and structural alignment and how it affects growth and development for their entire lives.
I think it was great.
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Dr. Zuleyka Cruz
Three takeaways:
1. The structure of the program, self-paced and well explained.
2. The Call to Action sections challenged us to think and apply the learned material.
3. Short videos and straight to the point.I took a CMRT elective class at Life University, and I’ve always found it fascinating how chiropractic can help with everything!!. We need more practitioners with these tools, people need us.
I’m still pending on my license, but I’ve educated patients in my clinic that showed signs/symptoms described in this course and definitely, they want to be seen and treated. One specific case was a teenage female that had latching issues when baby and now have breathing issues (mouth breather), TMJ issues and separated teeth. When I explained how everything was related, she was fascinated.
Highly recommended, this course shows an extraordinary connection between the cranium and how different distortions can affect from childhood and if they go by without correction can affect the adult as well.
These courses are a must to have in your toolbox specially if you want to see pediatric population.
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Laura McPherson, DC
“This program gives a lot of insight how to manually help with tongue tie and difficulties related to it Surgery may not be required and each case will be different
I treat a lot of pre and post frenectomy patients so this is going to add greatly to the tool box
I have been trying to incorporate the palate techniques. I feel it has helped with some and with others I may just need more practice or more education. I think with time I will have a better answer, but already noticing changes and improvement with latch, heightened gag reflexes, and other symptoms that can be related
This has been very detailed and extremely educational. Now I just need to take time to keep going over it all.”
More Courses from Peak Potential Institute
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- Category II patterns are not resolving as anticipated
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