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CEU Hrs: 6
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

Class 1 – Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks

Class 2 – Cranial Bone Motion

Class 3 – The Dural Meningeal System and CSF

Class 4 – Anatomy and Movement of the Palate

Class 5 – Evaluation of the Palate

Class 6 – Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate

Class 7 – Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships

Class 8 – Corrections for Palate Distortions

Class 9 – Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation

Class 10 – Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques

Class 11 – Tongue-Tie

Class 12 – Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture

Meet the Instructors

Dr. Martin Rosen, DC, CSCP, CSPP & Dr. Nancy Watson, DC, CSP

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

  • Dr. John Erickson

    My three takeaways from this course:
    Slow release of modules accommodates busy schedules. Doctor Sharing allows for communication with the Doctors to discuss real-life situations Dr. Marty knows his stuff – he is a credit to the profession.

    This course has helped demystify the TMJ not only in adults, but in the peds patient. People need options for care of the TMJ and there hasn’t been anything out there on the alternative side quite like this course.

    Early in the course, while working with patients and trying to apply what was learned, I noticed an improvement of jaw motion, decreased pain, and decreased clicking. Later I realized that I hadn’t even done the adjustment correctly and still had improvement. Since I have fine-tuned my adjustment.

    I would recommend this course if you want a slow release of info at a pace that wouldn’t be overwhelming to a doctor with a busy practice and life.

    Thanks for the obvious time and effort put into the course.

  • Dr. Rebecca Connor

    I found this class to be much more in depth than I imagined and was very grateful for it. I found that learning how each cranial bone affects the TMJ in different ways to differentiate the root cause of the TMJ problem to be very helpful. I find most people/practitioners treat all TMJ issues the same for all people so learning how to use clues by observing the patient, what cranial distortions or muscle patterns are found, etc. to determine the best course of action. I also really appreciated the way everything was put together and showed a real time assessment in the last few videos to understand how all of this information would play out with a live patient.

    Taking this program has impacted my life professionally because I was able to take bits that I was learning as we went along and bring them immediately to certain patients and became more thorough in their assessment and treatments, which allowed for better results. It has already broadened the way I have been able to help people at work and in my own family and brought in others with similar issues to be helped as well.

    In my office, I have a patient who has dealt with chronic TMJ pain for years. Under regular care she had been getting a lot of relief from her symptoms, but this relief would only last so long, maybe a week or up to three weeks at times but it always came back. As I worked through these courses modules, I was able to be more specific in this patients treatment and by addressing the same areas I was but also focusing more on her frontal bone based on the new indicators I learned, she was able to feel much more improvement and her adjustments started to hold better with less symptoms and pain.

    Yes, I would recommend this course to anyone who is looking to help with TMJ related issues, and this deepened my understanding of cranial work and its relationship as well. I have already gotten more patients for TMJ specifically because not many other providers in my area even know where to begin when addressing the TMJ and this helped me feel more confident in being able to help fill a need so many patients are looking for.

    I just wanted to say thank you for the work that you do and putting these programs out to help other providers. And thank you for reaching out and keeping me on track. This has been a whirlwind of a year for me personally and for my office so trying to keep up with this coursework and learn the most I can from it while dealing with everything I was here was challenging but I appreciated the emails letting me know where I was and what was needed to catch up as necessary.

  • Dr. Brooke AE Lee

    I love the breakdown for the protocols for each of the three majors. Temporal, Frontal and Sphenoid. That was my favorite part. I also love the Kinesiology testing for the occlusion, half open and full open. The last thing that I truly appreciate within this class is the way that it just improves and adds on to the rest of the information that I have learned from your classes.

    I think that this class will make me more focused on how I treat TMJ issues in adults and with my protocols for infants. I have done the intraoral work for years and this class is the gold standard for treatment. I am thankful for this information.

    I have used this quite a few times in many of my adult patients and more specifically in one of the full-term/full size twins that I have been working with in the last couple of months.

    Yes, as always! I recommend your classes to everyone that I can! Infinity!

    I just love learning, specifically from you two! I have found a renewed sense of wanting to absorb and master everything that you guys teach! Thank you.

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