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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Lauren Darby, DC
The course structure is so easy to follow and well planned out. The videos are so great to be able to watch at your own pace, and revise when needed, helping to cement the learning. The Question and Answer videos at the end of the course are so great for those in a different time zone.
This program has really given me great confidence in practice to try new things, and to also get things wrong when learning, this naturally transcended into my personal life with growing as a person and practitioner.
After doing the call to action exercises I found that I had entered into a conversation with a newly pregnant mum regarding ways her body will be changing and how the biomechanics works, it wasn’t something previously I would have talked about, as she was already a long term Chiropractic patient, but in doing so it gave her great comfort to know what to expect, and also that Chiropractic would be there to support her throughout her pregnancy journey.
Studying the course from a different Country with a different time zone was no disadvantage, it was very easy to access and Dr. Watson and Dr. Rosen were very accommodating and supportive.
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Cesar Segura, DC
I took this course for the quality of the teachers and the topics involved with the hope of being able to give more professional, gentle, specific and effective attention in caring for the pregnant patient.
My three takeaways:
1. Quality of teachers
2. Space to ask questions and clarify concepts
3. Broad and complete agenda with the main topics involved the pregnancy.This course has generated a more complete knowledge of the changes involved in pregnancy as well as its approach, allowing me to provide better care and at the same time generating more confidence about chiropractic management in the patient pregnant. Personally, it has expanded my range of benefits as well as the ability to safely face the changes that women are experiencing at different stages of her pregnancy.
Many of techniques learned have been very useful, such as the technique for the previous sacral base and its evaluation through cranial indicators; this has allowed me to manage many lumbar or sacral pain in a totally smooth way, without discomfort and providing a fast and effective resolution.
I believe that programs like this, deep, extensive, with a description of the mechanisms involved in both the injury and its resolution, not only give more confidence to the chiropractor, but also allow enough time to mature the concepts, which can be applied immediately after learning, in order to fine-tune its use and at the same time clarify any doubts that may arise.
Thank you for allowing many, who cannot by distance, to access this great knowledge in a dynamic, entertaining and attractive way to the practitioner.
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Kristin Moore, DC
1. You learn indicators to help give you certainty when adjusting and treating pregnant patients
2. You learn treatment protocols to help pregnant patients through certain pregnancy-related conditions
3. The analysis of the pelvis and certain blocking techniques are also very helpful for patients who are not pregnantThis class has given me more certainty and more tools in my tool belt.
I have an older female patient whose lower back pain and tailbone pain wasn’t resolving. She is heavier and has a large lordotic curve in her lumbar spine. I used the analysis methods taught in this class and I realized she was an SB+. As soon as I began addressing this issue her pain immediately started to resolve.
Absolutely would recommend this course. It’s a wonderful course with lots of practical information.
Thank you for the dedication to our profession!
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