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Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210 — at a Glance
| Course: | Drop Table Technique · 2 CE hours · $40 |
| Faculty: | Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM · sports-medicine chiropractor and extremity care specialist |
| Format: | On-demand online video with technique demonstrations and assessment · downloadable notes · instant certificate |
| Pricing: | $20/hr · automatic 10% off at 6–9 hrs, 20% off at 10+ hrs in one order · no promo codes |
| Approval: | PACE Provider #34015544 · co-sponsored by Texas Chiropractic College · acceptance varies by state |
Board-approved · PACE Provider #34015544 · CE Broker auto-reporting for states served · Instant certificate
Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210 reviews the clinical foundations of drop-table adjusting — Thompson technique concepts, the Derifield-Thompson leg check, drop-piece tension, and HVLA principles — and then puts them to work region by region across the cervical spine, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, pelvis, costovertebral joints, and hip. Dr. Donald Ozello connects the history and mechanics of the drop table to what the doctor actually does at the table: patient positioning, doctor stance and ergonomics, contact points, tissue slack, breathing instructions, thrust vectors, and the clinical reasoning that decides when a drop-piece procedure is the right choice.
The drop table earns its place for the patients a manual thrust serves poorly — heavier patients, the extremely mobile, the range-of-motion limited, geriatric patients, anyone who cannot tolerate side-lying, and anyone hard to reposition — and it protects the doctor's body over a career of adjusting. This 2-hour online course is built to make the technique precise rather than merely gentle, with procedures from bilateral occipital lift to supine hip distraction that apply the next morning. Every completion generates an instant certificate for your renewal file.
Choose Your Adjusting & Manual Therapy CE Path — Three Lanes, One Curriculum
The catalog is organized as a curriculum, not a pile of hours — eleven 2-hour courses covering the whole kinetic chain from TMJ to toe. Start in the lane that matches your patient mix; the full catalog lives on the Adjusting & Manual Therapy category page.
1 · Spine, Ribs & TMJ
The axial skeleton and its cage — cervical through pelvis, the costals, and the table-assisted delivery that serves all of them. You are here: Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210.
202: Adjusting the Costals
207: Thoracic Spine & Rib Cage
208: Cervical Spine & TMJ
209: Lumbar & Pelvic Techniques
210: Drop Table Technique
2 · Extremities
Shoulder to hand and hip to foot — the appendicular territory most catalogs leave thin.
203: Shoulder Treatment Techniques
204: Lower Extremity Techniques
205: Upper Extremity Techniques
206: Hip, Thigh & Knee
3 · Soft Tissue & Assisted Methods
The work around the adjustment — myofascial reasoning and partner-assisted stretching that make joint corrections last.
201: Myofascial Dysfunction
211: Partner Assisted Stretching
New technique courses are added to these lanes as faculty release them.
What You'll Learn in Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210
• Describe the history, clinical rationale, and mechanical principles behind Thompson/drop-table technique — Newton's First Law, drop-piece tension, and reduced-force delivery — and the situations where it is preferred for patient comfort, positioning, or doctor ergonomics.
• Perform the Derifield-Thompson leg check — pelvic syndrome and cervical syndrome analysis, prone leg-length comparison, knee-flexion testing, and cervical rotation components — as the analysis that drives procedure selection.
• Apply HVLA principles on the drop piece — joint-fixation indication, short-duration force, and anatomical integrity — with correct patient positioning, doctor stance, contact points, tissue slack, and thrust vectors for each region.
• Execute regional drop-table procedures: bilateral occipital lift and prone cervical; upper and lower thoracic; supine spondylolisthesis and lumbar; sacroiliac and sacral; upper and lower costovertebral; and supine hip distraction on a pelvic drop piece.
Your Adjusting & Manual Therapy Faculty
Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM — instructor of this course — leads nine of the eleven courses in the series (203–211), shoulder through foot, spine, drop table, and partner-assisted stretching. A 1995 graduate of the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, Navy veteran, and founder of Championship Chiropractic, Dr. Ozello is certified in sports medicine and clinical nutrition and serves as faculty for CCEDseminars and Texas Chiropractic College. He also authors the CCEDseminars Athletic Injuries series, and his clinical philosophy — injury prevention, functional recovery, and long-term performance from elite athletes to aging adults — runs through every technique module he teaches.
Michael Hall, DC, FIACN teaches costal adjusting (202) with a chiropractic neurologist's perspective — rib mechanics, respiratory linkage, and the neurological reasoning behind thoracic cage work. A Fellow of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology, Dr. Hall also leads the CCEDseminars Neurology series.
Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN opens the series with myofascial dysfunction (201), framing soft-tissue evaluation within whole-patient physiology from his board certification in clinical nutrition.
Full bios and the complete instructor roster: CCEDseminars faculty page.
Where Adjusting & Manual Therapy Hours Count — State Rules Worth Knowing
Technique is core clinical subject matter, which is exactly what several state boards ask for. 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.
Build Your Technique Block
Every course in the 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 — the full 22-hour series lands at roughly $352 instead of $440, with no promo codes. The natural pairing for this course is 209 Lumbar & Pelvic Techniques, the manual version of the same lumbar, sacral, and ilium corrections, and 208 Cervical Spine & TMJ for the manual cervical work the occipital lift replaces; 202 and 207 complete the axial skeleton. Browse Adjusting & Manual Therapy Courses
Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210 — Frequently Asked Questions
What does Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210 cover?
Drop-table adjusting from foundations to regional procedures: Thompson technique history and concepts, Newton's First Law and drop-piece mechanics, drop-table tension, HVLA principles, the Derifield-Thompson leg check, regional anatomy of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine, sacroiliac and costovertebral joints, and step-by-step procedures for the cervical spine (bilateral occipital lift, prone cervical), thoracic and lumbar spine (including supine spondylolisthesis), pelvis and sacrum, costovertebral joints, and supine hip distraction using a pelvic drop piece. Also known as Thompson technique, drop-piece adjusting, Thompson terminal point technique, low-force chiropractic adjusting, and drop table manipulation.
How many CE hours is Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210, and what is the format?
2 CE hours, fully online and self-paced — video instruction with procedure demonstrations covering patient positioning, drop-piece setup, contacts, tissue slack, and thrust direction, followed by an assessment. Your certificate is available in your account immediately upon completion, and enrollment includes one year of access.
Is drop-table adjusting appropriate for geriatric, heavier, or hard-to-position patients?
That is exactly the population the course is built around. Drop-table technique reduces the force the patient absorbs and removes the need for side-lying or difficult repositioning, which makes it a preferred approach for heavier patients, geriatric patients, extremely mobile or range-of-motion-limited patients, and anyone who cannot tolerate a manual thrust — while also reducing the load on the doctor's own body over a career of adjusting.
Is this course accepted for my state's chiropractic license renewal?
Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210 is a PACE Provider #34015544 program co-sponsored by Texas Chiropractic College and is accepted in most U.S. states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, six Canadian provinces, and more than 50 international jurisdictions. The complete approval list appears at the bottom of this page, and your state's online-hour rules are summarized in its CE guidelines page.
How do discounts and certificates work?
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. No promo codes. Each completion generates an instant certificate with a permanent copy in your account dashboard, and CE Broker reporting is handled automatically for states served.
State Approval and Licensing Reminder
Continuing education requirements — including online-hour caps and clinical-hour minimums — vary by jurisdiction. Review the online chiropractic CE guidelines page and contact CCEDseminars with questions about your specific licensing requirements before registering.
Ready to Enroll in Adjusting & Manual Therapy 210?
2 CE hours · $40 · online & self-paced · instant certificate. Add it to your cart, or pair it with 209 for the manual version of the same corrections.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated August 24, 2026 (CT)