Vagus Nerve Evaluation and Correction Protocols
Master the Vagus Nerve: Evaluation and Correction Protocols for the Chiropractic Practice
The vagus nerve plays a vital role in autonomic nervous system regulation, affecting everything from digestion and immune response to heart rate, mood, and inflammation. Misalignments or tension patterns in the upper cervical spine, cranium, and dural system can interfere with vagal tone—contributing to a host of symptoms in both pediatric and adult populations.
In this on-demand online training, you’ll learn how to identify and correct vagus nerve imbalances using specific chiropractic techniques. This course offers a step-by-step breakdown of the neurological anatomy and physiology of the vagus nerve and outlines the practical, hands-on protocols to address its involvement.
Whether you’re caring for newborns with latching issues, children with gut-brain axis imbalances, or adults experiencing chronic fatigue, digestive disorders, or anxiety-related symptoms—this class will give you the clinical tools you need to confidently assess and support vagus nerve function.
What You’ll Learn
- The anatomical and physiological pathways of the vagus nerve and its impact on systemic health
- How to evaluate for vagus nerve involvement through observable signs and palpation indicators
- Specific adjustment protocols to reduce interference along the vagus nerve pathway, including occipital, cervical, cranial, and soft tissue corrections
- Strategies to restore parasympathetic tone and improve autonomic balance
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?
- Improve patient outcomes in cases involving digestive issues, immune dysregulation, anxiety, sleep problems, and developmental challenges
- Expand your chiropractic skill set with neurological assessment and correction protocols
- Support whole-body wellness by addressing one of the most powerful regulatory nerves in the body
Who Is This Course For?
Chiropractors who want to:
- Go beyond symptom-based care and dive into neurology-based chiropractic approaches
- Enhance their effectiveness with pediatric, family, and wellness-based practice members
- Gain confidence in assessing and adjusting the vagus nerve safely and effectively
This course is ideal for both beginner and advanced chiropractors looking to sharpen their skills and deliver deeper, more lasting results.
Course Contents
10 Modules | 10 CTAs
Class 1 – Anatomy and Physiology of Vagus
Class 2 – Jugular Foramen
Class 3 – Evaluation and Correction of Vagus Nerve Involvement
Class 4 – CMRT Demonstration
Class 5 – Atlas Dural Meningeal Restriction
Class 6 – Atlas Correction
Class 7 – Temporal and Occipital Corrections
Class 8 – Demonstration on Older Child
Class 9 – Demonstration of Vagus Nerve Evaluation
Class 10 – Review
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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Andrea Hornstein, DC
This program has usable information with good instruction and demonstration. Very helpful.
I will use this to diagnose and treat patients weekly. I can help my own kids too.
I just evaluated a one-year-old and will hope to see better balance than getting previously
I would recommend this course for its usable information.
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Maree Chilton, DC
Great course. Easy to implement in the office the next day. Great stand-alone techniques to use in practice immediately if you don’t have an SOT background. It adds to SOT methodology to give more tools for your sot toolkit.
This course has been a game changer. I’ve improved my evaluating skills, I have additional adjusting techniques. I’m getting an understanding about the nervous system and how to implement this in practice. I have more confidence to know what I’m doing is incredibly valuable. I’ve had personal breakthroughs with being really sad that I’m not a very good manual adjuster having worked and studied with big Gonstead adjusters. I always felt really insecure, but I didn’t want to hurt myself and be maimed into the future. I always felt I had failed because I did low force techniques. This course has been a turning point of really understanding the nervous system and seeing changes immediately, it improved my confidence.
Actually having the correct pelvic point that agrees with occipital indicator and having immediate changes in a 4.5 month old baby with torticollis. This was really important to the parents as they had taken 15 years to have this IVF baby. And because I couldn’t move his head, they thought he was broken.
Yes, I would recommend this program. So easy to implement immediately in the office, with staggering effects. It helps that the nation is incredibly sympathetically dominant.
I have lots of patients coming because of the broken damaged vagus nerve referred by their doctor. I have so much more confidence to treat the complexity of these issues and also to treat them for longer periods of time especially when the indicators are still active.
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Dr. Daniel Chenier
I decided to take this course because I had already studied the importance of having proper vagal tone but I desired more clinical tools for assessing and correcting vagal tone.
My three takeaways:
1. The colon subluxation patterns that affect the vagus nerve.
2. The cranial application that affects the vagus nerve.
3. The most CMRT applications that influence the vagus nerve.Taking this program has increased my confidence in assessing and correcting for vagus nerve imbalance in adults and infants, and allowed me to better serve my patients and family.
I applied the techniques that I learned in this course on a two month old infant with severe head rotation and head tilt…cranium was very flat on one side with severely internally rotated temporal bone on that side. Within the first 3 to 4 visits the infant regained full active ROM in cervical spine and her cranium started to become more symmetrical.
Thank you Dr. Rosen and Dr. Watson for teaching this amazing work with such precision.
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