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| Course: | Adjusting & Manual Therapy 202: Adjusting the Costals · 2 CE · $40 |
| Catalog: | 11 online courses · 22 total CE hours · TMJ to toe — spine, ribs, extremities, soft tissue, drop table |
| Faculty: | Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM · Michael Hall, DC, FIACN · Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN |
| Format: | On-demand online video with assessment · instant certificate |
| Pricing: | $20/hr ($40/course) · automatic 10% off at 6–9 hrs, 20% off at 10+ hrs |
| Approval: | PACE Provider #34015544 · co-sponsored by Texas Chiropractic College · acceptance varies by state and scope |
Board-approved · PACE Provider #34015544 · CE Broker auto-reporting for states served · Instant certificate
The CCEDseminars adjusting and manual therapy curriculum covers the working chiropractor's entire technique territory — cervical spine and TMJ, thoracic spine and rib cage, lumbar-pelvic mechanics, both extremities from shoulder to foot, myofascial and partner-assisted soft-tissue methods, and drop table technique. Every course is built around the same three questions: what does the tissue need, what is the safest effective way to deliver it, and how do you document the encounter so the care defends itself.
Adjusting is the center of chiropractic practice — and it's also where assessment discipline matters most: contraindication screening, force and vector selection, patient positioning, and knowing when the plan calls for soft-tissue work, an instrument-assisted approach, or referral rather than a higher-force maneuver. This category treats technique as clinical reasoning made physical. It is refresher-grade for experienced hands and framework-grade for doctors expanding into regions — extremities, TMJ, ribs — that many practices under-serve.
The catalog is organized by body region and method — work a lane end-to-end, or pick the regions your patient mix demands. The full catalog lives on the Adjusting & Manual Therapy category page.
The axial skeleton lane — from craniocervical junction and jaw through the rib cage to the pelvis, plus table-assisted delivery. You are here: AMT 202.
AMT 202: Adjusting the Costals
AMT 207: Thoracic Spine & Rib Cage
AMT 208: Cervical Spine & TMJ
AMT 209: Lumbar & Pelvic Techniques
AMT 210: Drop Table Technique
The appendicular lane — shoulder girdle through hand, hip through foot; the regions that separate full-body adjusters from spine-only practices.
AMT 203: Shoulder Treatment Techniques
AMT 204: Lower Extremity Techniques
AMT 205: Upper Extremity Techniques
AMT 206: Hip, Thigh & Knee
The hands-on complement to the adjustment — myofascial reasoning and partner-assisted stretching that extend what the visit delivers.
AMT 201: Myofascial Dysfunction
AMT 211: Partner Assisted Stretching
New adjusting and manual therapy courses are added to these lanes as faculty release them.
• Understand rib cage mechanics — how the costals move, restrict, and refer — as the foundation for safe, specific adjusting.
• Assess costal dysfunction and its respiratory linkage — the breathing mechanics that rib restrictions disturb.
• Apply adjusting approaches for the costals with the setup, contact, and vector reasoning behind each.
• See thoracic cage work through a chiropractic neurologist's lens — the neurological reasoning behind costal adjusting.
Michael Hall, DC, FIACN — instructor of this course — is a Fellow of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology and lead of our Neurology series. He brings the neurologist's lens to costal adjusting: rib mechanics, respiratory linkage, and the neurological reasoning behind thoracic cage work.
Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM leads the series — nine of the eleven courses, spanning every extremity region, the full axial spine, drop table technique, and partner-assisted stretching. A certified sports-medicine chiropractor who also authors our Athletic Injuries curriculum, he teaches technique the way it's used on active patients: assessment first, mechanism understood, delivery matched to the tissue.
Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN opens the series with myofascial dysfunction. Board-certified in clinical nutrition, he frames soft-tissue evaluation within whole-patient physiology rather than as an isolated modality.
Full bios and the complete instructor roster: CCEDseminars faculty page.
Adjusting and manual therapy coursework is core clinical subject matter — which matters wherever your state splits clinical from non-clinical hours. In Iowa, technique hours feed the 36-hour clinical case-management minimum; in Rhode Island, they serve the 50-of-60 clinical requirement; in Vermont — where practice-management and philosophy coursework earns no credit at all — technique sits squarely inside the clinical-focus rule; and in Montana, where philosophy is capped at 2 of 12 hours, technique fills the clinical balance cleanly.
Online-format allowances still vary by state — some accept every hour online, others cap distance learning or require in-person blocks. Check your state's guide in the full state directory before building your renewal plan.
Every course in this series is 2 hours at $40, so the automatic discounts do the bundling for you: any three courses (6 hours) earns 10% off, and five or more (10+ hours) in a single order earns 20% off — a complete lane, or the full 22-hour series at roughly $352 instead of $440. AMT 202 anchors the Spine, Ribs & TMJ lane alongside AMT 207–210. No promo codes, ever — the discount calculates itself at checkout. Browse Adjusting & Manual Therapy Courses
Chiropractic assessment and correction of the ribs — the costovertebral and costotransverse articulations where each rib meets the spine, and the costosternal junctions in front. Rib restrictions disturb breathing mechanics and commonly present as sharp mid-back or chest-wall pain, and this course covers the mechanics, the assessment, and the adjusting approaches with the neurological reasoning behind them. The topic is also discussed as rib adjusting, rib cage manipulation, costovertebral joint adjusting, thoracic cage technique, and rib subluxation correction.
2 CE hours, fully online and self-paced — course video plus downloadable PDF notes, followed by an assessment. Your certificate is available in your account immediately upon completion, and enrollment includes 1 year of access.
Adjusting and manual therapy is core clinical subject matter, which serves the clinical-hour minimums states like Iowa and Rhode Island impose and fits clinical-focus rules like Vermont's. Online-format allowances still vary by jurisdiction — verify your state's online cap and any in-person requirements in its guide before registering.
Michael Hall, DC, FIACN — Fellow of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology and lead of the CCEDseminars Neurology series — teaches Adjusting & Manual Therapy 202, bringing a chiropractic neurologist's reasoning to rib cage work. The wider series is led by Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM, with Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN opening the soft-tissue lane. All courses are PACE Provider #34015544 programs co-sponsored by Texas Chiropractic College.
Courses are $20 per credit hour, and discounts apply automatically in a single order — 10% off at 6–9 hours, 20% off at 10 or more. Each completion generates an instant PDF certificate with a permanent copy in your account dashboard, ready for renewal submission or audit response. No promo codes.
CE requirements — including online-format allowances and any in-person minimums — vary by jurisdiction. Review the online chiropractic CE guidelines page and contact CCEDseminars with questions about your specific licensing requirements before registering.
2 CE hours · $40 · online & self-paced · instant certificate. Add it to your cart above, or build a discounted technique block from the full series.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated August 21, 2026 (CT)
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