Chiropractic Care for the Pregnant Patient
Chiropractic Care for the Pregnant Patient - Confidently Support Every Stage of Pregnancy with Advanced SOT® Protocols
Pregnancy is a time of profound structural, hormonal, and neurological change. For chiropractors, it offers a unique opportunity to provide safe, effective care that supports both the mother and developing baby throughout each trimester—and beyond.
This on-demand course gives you the tools to deliver gentle, specific, and neurologically-based chiropractic care tailored to the needs of pregnant patients. Using advanced SOT® (Sacro Occipital Technique) protocols, you’ll learn how to assess and address the spinal, pelvic, and cranial changes that occur during pregnancy—and how to create more comfortable pregnancies and smoother births.
Whether you’re already caring for expecting moms or looking to expand your prenatal expertise, this course offers step-by-step guidance you can integrate into your practice right away.
What You’ll Learn
- How to adapt SOT® Category I, II, and III protocols for each stage of pregnancy
- Pelvic balancing and soft tissue techniques that support uterine positioning and fetal alignment
- Cranial corrections to address hormonal shifts, neurological stress, and postural changes
- Evaluation strategies for detecting instability, torsion, and compensatory distortion patterns
- Techniques to support labor preparation and postpartum recovery
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?
- Chiropractic care during pregnancy improves maternal comfort, reduces intrauterine constraint, and enhances neurological function
- SOT® protocols provide a safe, gentle, and powerful framework for structural correction without force
- Proper care throughout pregnancy can positively impact labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery
Who Is This Course For?
Chiropractors who want to:
- Deliver more specialized, results-driven care for pregnant patients
- Build a thriving prenatal and family-centered practice
- Feel confident adjusting throughout all stages of pregnancy using low-force, effective techniques
- Create a more comfortable, balanced experience for mothers-to-be
Supporting pregnant patients is one of the most impactful ways to serve your community. With the right protocols and a deeper understanding of perinatal dynamics, you can help moms thrive—and give babies the best start possible.
Course Contents
14 Modules | 14 CTAs
Class 1 – The Chiropractor’s Role – Anatomy and Physiology
Class 2 – Stages of Pregnancy – SOT Categories and Pregnancy
Class 3 – Prone Blocking Techniques: Category One
Class 4 – Category II and Category III Testing and Blocking
Class 5 – Ancillary Procedures: Psoas, T11-T12, Posterior Femur and Acetabular Restriction Corrections
Class 6 – Sacral Corrections: SOR, Sacral Cup, Anterior Sacrum, Sacral Segment Correction and Sacral Pussy Foot Technique
Class 7 – Seated Blocking Techniques
Class 8 – Alternative Blocking Techniques
Class 9 – Orthopedic Blocking and Non-Osseus Corrections, Pubic Symphsis Correction, Supportive Exercises and Sacro-iliac Belts
Class 10 – Pelvic Constraint Technique with Blocking
Class 11 – Case Management: Morning Sickness, Hemorrhoids
Class 12 – Case Management: VBAC – Past Due Date
Class 13 – Case Management: Constipation – Generalized Swelling – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Class 14 – Case Management: Premature Labor – Inability to Maintain Pregnancy or Conceive
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 Similar Courses
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Rachel Wong-Homer, DC
My three takeaways:
1. Seated blocking – it is great for patients who can’t or are not comfortable laying down.
2. Pregnancy is all about stabilization! As such adjustments may need to be different than for non-pregnant patients.
3. The pace of this course makes it easy for busy practitioners to integrate the information every week.
This program has given me more confidence with pregnancy case management with targeted solutions for my patients in this unique season of their life.
Instead of using the drop table for my pregnant patients I’ve incorporated more use of pelvic blocks which for my patients have been a gentler way of correcting the pelvis.
Yes, I would recommend this program. I appreciate PPI providing transcripts along with the videos because it helps me assimilate the information in multiple ways.
Thanks for everything you do! -
Nicholas Novakoski, DC
I am Webster certified and have been diving deep into SOT for the past year. I was very excited to look at chiropractic care for pregnancy through the lens of SOT.
My three takeaways:
1. The indicators. Not only does it give me certainty, but my patients think I am magic when they reduce after an adjustment!
2. The anatomy and physiology in the beginning portion has given me more certainty with my patient communication.
3. I loved the case management portion.This program has given me certainty in my care and communication for prenatal patients. The seated blocking protocols are fantastic! It gave me a new tool to work with difficult patients. If you are looking for certainty with your care planning, communication and adjusting protocols for prenatal patients, this course is a must take! You guys are great! I am excited to keep studying with you!
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Shivani Patel, DC
Three of many takeaways… 1. I love the SOT approach to different categories and blocking, and I am happy to finally apply the knowledge to pregnant patients. For example, I never understood how to help pregnant patients with sciatica until the course demonstrated exactly how to adapt to the pregnant woman’s body. Now, I can confidently block prone, supine, and even seated! 2. The nutrition and organ support is extremely helpful to supplement the adjustments. Tying these to the pregnant population in a very simple yet specific manner helps make this easily applicable in daily practice. 3. Each scenario offers multiple approaches to care, such as multiple blocking methods, muscle balancing techniques, structural adjustments, and even organ and nutritional support. The course covered more than I anticipated and really helps enhance my ability to work with all scenarios.
This program truly enhanced my clinical skills and confidence in helping pregnant women. I have been studying SOT and have learned many pieces of the puzzle, and Drs. Marty and Nancy helped put the pieces together to effectively help a unique population. This course goes beyond the general techniques used for pregnancy and gives you multiple ways to handle common conditions and challenges. Each section of the course is thorough, and we are provided multiple tools for supporting pregnancy both in and outside of the office. A significant amount of the information can even apply to the non-pregnant population as well, which has helped with unique patient cases.
One of my biggest challenges was helping pregnant women with sciatica. I have one woman who felt decent with standard adjustments but was unable to get full relief from her sciatica. As soon as I learned the blocking techniques and pre- and post-blocking procedures, she had immediate and long-lasting relief after just one visit! If she was not blocked properly in future visits and adjusted the standard “Webster” way, her sciatica came back. While the Webster Technique is powerful for many, learning these skills really allows me to help women very specifically and tackle challenging cases much more effectively.
I genuinely loved all of the information in this course and the attention to detail with supporting a unique and important population. The information was thorough and easy to follow, and this will enhance my skills better than any other course probably can teach. In the future, I personally think adding in a section to focus on SOT and fetal positioning concurs (breech, transverse, etc.) and any protocols to help with optimal positioning would be a fantastic addition.
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