Praise For: SOT® – The Three Categories

“I took this course to improve my skill and learn new techniques.

My takeaways are that one complaint can hide something that has been there for longer than the complaint. The importance of considering the body as a whole and the strong relationship between the cervical and the pelvis.

The course has enlarged my view on chiropractic care, and taught me a new way to approach a complaint.

Great class.”

“I took SOT Europe’s first three modules at the beginning of the year (Cat I, II, II and extremities). Lots of questions arose as I started using SOT with patients.

The program was well structured, ensuring that participants can comfortably absorb, comprehend, and put into practice the concepts taught. This program answered so many questions, I’m so grateful for having taken part in this course. I am feeling more confident using SOT. In the clinic, patients with chronic complaints have finally started to heal.

I have been treating a patient for about 2 years. She presented with left buttock pain. I had gone far further than previous chiropractors in helping her. However, her pain remained. It was only when I started using SOT and identified a Category II subluxation pattern that I was able to clear her pain completely and get her back to running and practicing martial arts. She is still a stable category 1 patient now and I see her for maintenance every four weeks.

Thank you for answering all my questions. I am looking forward to the CMRT course. You always made me feel welcome with my many questions, and I really appreciate your help and kindness.”

“I wanted a better understanding of the 3 categories in the SOT protocol. I wished to gain more clinical knowledge to educate other doctors and patients in the future.

Dr. Marty & Dr. Nancy make themselves available and really break the content down into digestible tidbits that make it easier to understand. Years of expertise that Dr. Marty & Dr. Nancy are invaluable!

I hope by creating an understanding of SOT that I can professionally help teach others in the future through chiropractic college elective course work.

I have applied some of the Pediatric program into my office application. Recently an infant was brought to my office with moderate to severe cranial distortions. She was not crawling and was on the verge of being referred for a helmet. With consistent cranial care we were able to get cranial measurements in a mild range and closer to normal helping avoid expensive helmets. Infant began to meet additional milestones as well as felt comfortable during tummy time.

Keep being a source for chiropractors! You are quite the pair! Let’s get you back to Nebraska soon!”

Great combination of theory and practical application.

It was really helpful in identifying Category II patients that I couldn’t stabilise in their pain perception. After applying the Category II procedure all of them stabilised, improved and are now doing much better.

Yes! If you are interested in SOT this is a great way to start or deepen your knowledge.

SOT provides a deeper look into the functioning of the nervous system and the role of the dural meningeal system in nervous system functioning, chronic patterns, and clues that the source of dysfunction may not be local to the area of pain but may be a compensation above or below. SOT provides an extra key to unlocking the nervous system with the cranial distortion evaluation and how it plays a part in the dural meningeal system, CSF flow and more. The SOT evaluation helps to give better understanding of the capacity to which a person’s nervous system is functioning beyond the everyday ortho and neurological exams taught in school. It is more of a qualitative nervous system analysis rather than a specific diagnostic problem because the nervous system functions as a whole.

I have been able to provide a unique/different technique in my area that is starting to give some results with patients so hopefully will attract more in the future.

This technique has been able to keep me from over adjusting my patients and learning to trust the indicators rather than what I may be feeling without the use of the indicators. For one patient the indicators encouraged me to adjust the cervicals differently which has helped. For another patient having lots of neck pain and not making progress with another provider I was able to determine it was an ascending pattern and the problem was more in his pelvis and sacrum and releasing the AI sacrum was providing the most relief.

Yes, I would recommend this course. I think it helps to have more tools in the toolbox for when you become “stuck” with patient progress and learning to read the body’s indicators helps to provide direction to help them. Also, the role the dural meningeal system plays in nervous system health is not taught in schools so I think it could provide better and more lasting results if the system is unwound.