The SOT® Pediatric Certificate Program
Demonstrate your commitment to your profession and patients, enhance your skills, and place yourself on the road to mastery in the art of chiropractic adjustment.
About the Program
Welcome to the SOT® Pediatric Certificate Program and the home of Chiropractic Cranial Adjusting TM methods. We are proud to offer one of the most comprehensive pediatric certification programs in the chiropractic profession. With over 80 years of combined clinical practice and teaching experience, our commitment to education and chiropractic excellence is second to none.
We are seeking individuals who are committed to elevating the delivery of the chiropractic adjustment as the forefront of their practice. If you share our passion for advancing patient care through precise and effective adjusting techniques, we invite you to join our community and embark on a journey towards professional excellence with us.
Our Pediatric Certificate Program provides three avenues for certification: a 10-month online program, a 48-hour hybrid program (16 hours online, 32 hours in-person), and a 64-hour intensive program (40 hours online, 24 hours in-person). Upon completing any of these programs, participants will be listed in our exclusive Pediatric Referral Directory and invited to join our membership program. Our members, who have found their professional home with us, aspire to master our techniques, and may eventually choose to join the Peak Potential Institute as part of our training staff.
Welcome aboard, and please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions you may have.
Certification Process
Follow these steps to receive your SOT® Pediatric Certification and membership to our referral directory.
Online SOT® Pediatric Certificate Program
10 Months | 40 Modules
Hybrid Pediatric Certification Program
32 In-Person Hours | 16 Online Hours
Intensive Pediatric Certification Program
24 In-Person Hours | 40 Online Hours
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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Kristin Hieshetter, DC
My top 3 take-aways were the applicability and ease of the manual cranial techniques, the FABULOUS reviewing of the SOT categorization processes, and the emphasis on staying in the syntax.
Drs. Marty and Nancy know by now that I was very happy and surprised to have the professional coaching questions woven into the second half of the course. I’ve had coaching over the years intermittently, most of the programs involved action. The coaching we were given in this program was WISE: it challenged us to identify core values, to identify incongruencies and remove them, to recognize our inner INTENTION and innate, and then create a plan… The coaching in this program had a wisdom element to it, patience and strength were underlying the questions and identifying ways to separate yourself from emotion to address situations objectively, forcing us all to be courageous enough to exist in our truths.
I have been doing cranial work since 2008 and learned my first techniques from Dr. Rosen. What is remarkable is that my first daughter was born in a posterior facing position, with very minimal anterior fontanelle, and I had to use these techniques to create a normal shape to my daughter’s head. I worked on her for 4 hours after she was born, in between nursing she was getting cranial work mostly for her parietals and temporals. Within 24 hours, her cranial bones were neutral, and nursing became much easier. During this course, I worked on a 9-year-old boy who was undergoing palate- spreading and his appliance was being cranked 1 mm / week. After one session of cranial work, he was sleeping better, his right front incisor shifted beautifully, and he said he felt much better.
I would recommend this course to others. The weekly class format was terrific – online, easy to schedule into your life, and great material. The hands-on weekends were WAY more than I expected, but in a fantastic way. I was so thankful for all the hands-on, and there were so many teaching assistants I feel that everyone got the help they needed.
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Dr. Megan Hotrum
After completing last year’s class, which included the in-person weekends. This time around I was able to dive a little bit deeper into the smaller details of the techniques for adjusting, as well as the examination details. I was making a lot more connections every week between clinical presentations in the office and what we were learning each week.
Personally, I have noticed that I pay a lot more attention to changes after adjusting, doing more pre-post checks, than I have been doing in the past. I am able to talk more clinically to patients and create an understanding and clearly explain what I am doing and the importance of why I am doing it. We have seen a huge increase in not only pediatric patients over the last 2 years, but in whole family care as well.
I had a mother who has utilized chiropractic care only during pregnancy, typically stopping after she gives birth. She was new to my office, after recently moving to the area, when she was 26 weeks. I had posters up explaining pediatric chiropractic care and chiropractic care for the newborn, and she asked about it. So we spend the next 12 weeks talking about why it’s so important to get newborns, infants and young children into the office, before creating patterns that can affect them well into their adult life. She is now bringing in her newborn, and her 2 other children as well! The newborn was born with a shoulder presentation and there were many indicators after the initial exam, which I used a new exam sheet that I had made at the beginning of the class, and we slowly have been working through some cranial and cervical adjusting techniques, and we are seeing huge improvements in her newborn’s development. She commented on how this was her “happiest baby”.
I have already been recommending this course to others, I have done some of the ICPA courses and random pediatric courses in the past, but this class is the exact detail and information that I need to put all the pieces together and I am seeing changes in my practice already!
This is an amazing class; I am so glad that I found your flier for the in-person class here in Detroit. I am hoping to study and take the test for the pediatric spinal exam and continue practicing my skills. I will be diving into some other courses as well.
See Our Full Catalog of Online Courses
Reach new levels of mastery from the comfort of your home or on-the-go with our online programs.
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Sphenobasilar Mechanism: Assessment & Correction6 Weeks|6 Modules -
Balancing the Sacro-Occipital Respiratory Motion (SOR)8 Weeks|8 Modules -
Oral Movement Patterns: Understanding Cranial, Airway and Functional Relationships– Weeks|– Modules -
Understanding Cranial Bone Movement7 Weeks|7 Modules
The SOT® Pediatric Certificate Program
Demonstrate your commitment to your profession and patients, enhance your skills, and place yourself on the road to mastery in the art of chiropractic adjustment.
