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
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
Andrew Alft, DC
My takeaways are: Understanding the dynamics of palate anatomy, motion, exam and corrections is a great bridge between the internal and external cranial dynamics. Creates a much deeper grasp on how to evaluate and treat all of the cranial joints.
This program has given another great level of depth and improvement into cranial care in my practice. Your programs have made a great impact on my ability to care for my patients of all ages.
In a more general sense, the growth in my ability to find cranial dysfunction and make corrections to these areas has opened the door for me to help my patients in many new and valuable ways.
I would absolutely recommend this course.
After 25 years in practice focusing mostly on the spine, the new study of understanding how to work on the cranial areas has been a great addition to my life and practice. Thank you!
Norri Collier, DC
“This program is well organized with good instruction on technique and contacts.
I feel more confident in my ability to help infants and adults with cranial work.
I have not seen an infant with tongue tie; however, I was able to help an 8 year-old boy who had a distortion pattern and was having trouble in school.
I always learn something I can add to my practice, thank you.”
Jeanette Honig, DC
This program was excellent, helping me totally completely understand how to evaluate and treat the palate
This program has made me the expert in my community with tongue, lip, and cheek ties, and both evaluating them and treating them. I have gotten great results.I can share with you many instances where I use the techniques learned in this class to evaluate and treat my patient. I had a little girl who came in to me, and when she came in, she could not even turn her neck. Her mom was having tremendous trouble, breast-feeding her, even after her tongue tie, release. Now the baby is totally breast-feeding and her brachycephaly is totally going away. Her mom also understands that breast-feeding is not where it ends, but where it begins as the brain develops 101% and grows the first year of life.
Yes, I would definitely recommend this course to others.
I have been studying with Dr. Rosen and Dr. Watson for the last 18 years. What can I say about that? You’re extremely great and extremely knowledgeable and the best anybody can hope for.
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