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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Collin Walding, DC
I would like to just emphasize the knowledge gained throughout all the courses I’ve taken with you guys.
I have gained clinical clarity and understanding what to do in certain situations.
We are a very pediatric and newborn heavy practice. We have kept 40+ kids out of helmets this year and the certainty gained through the program is why
Yes, I would recommend this course based on everything I said. Cranial cases I feel are pretty tough, even sometimes with all the knowledge.
Very grateful for the training.
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Jonah Wright, DC
“I have learned so much throughout the last 3 months of this course. I love how Dr. Rosen conveyed the importance of how the motion of the palate and the quality of function of a child suck, swallow and breath complex impact the rest of the cranium as well as the CSF as a whole. I appreciate the way in which this course was taught. Dr. Rosen did not skip right to the palate work but took the time to take a broad view of the cranium and then gradually the videos became more specific to the palate as the course progressed. I was prepared and eager for the next week’s course to drop. Third, I enjoyed the way in which palate corrections were taught. Simple steps in order to evaluate and make efficient corrections.
The course came at the perfect time in my life. My wife and I just had a baby girl. She had moderate tongue and lip ties. There was trouble nursing, sucking, and breathing. We started palate work early and saw great changes in her craniofacial system. Very quickly, nursing, sucking, and breathing improved. She is now a champion eater and has a head shape that I am so proud of haha. Professionally, I have had my eyes on getting into cranial adjusting for a couple years now. Took my first year of practice to focus on the neuro spinal system and now at the beginning of my second year in practice I am pumped to start the process of introducing cranial evaluation and corrections to my tool belt.
Our office at PWC Chiropractic takes on the toughest of cases. There are many points where thinking outside of the conventional box is necessary and beneficial to the patient. I felt like I attracted patients that needed palate and tongue tie work during this last 3 month stretch. I was able to confidently educate the parents on what was going on with their child and how it impacts their child as a whole. Many parents chose the wait and see approach and throughout consistent chiropractic care on the neuro spinal system as well as specific cranial adjustments, we saw many tongue ties loosen and pediatricians back away from their surgical recommendations. Also, better breathing and sleep changes as well.
Thank you for your level of attention to detail and taking the time to thoroughly explain this complex information! You guys are awesome and I am excited to take more courses and level up my care as I continue to learn.”
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Eve Van Der Perre, DC
The program is very thoughtfully organised, the content is delivered in bite size pieces to help you grasp each part before moving on, and support is available throughout.
I have enjoyed this program, it has deepened my practice.
I would recommend this course to chiropractors who wish to become more specific and find their place amongst other healthcare providers.
I look forward to learning more.
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