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Athletic Injuries 206 — at a Glance
| Course: | Athletic Injuries of the Shoulder · 2 CE hours · $40 |
| Faculty: | Dennis O'Hara, DC, DACBSP · Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Practitioners |
| Format: | On-demand online video with demonstration links and assessment · 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
Athletic Injuries 206 takes the shoulder — the joint that overhead, contact, and weight-bearing sports stress hardest — from anatomy and biomechanics to practical, clinic-ready treatment strategies. Dr. Dennis O'Hara moves through the common overuse and traumatic shoulder injuries of athletes, clinical evaluation including orthopedic testing, imaging considerations and the red-flag findings that change management, office-based chiropractic treatment options and rehabilitation considerations, and the patient education that carries recovery, load management, and injury prevention beyond the visit.
The athletic shoulder is where the Sport by Sport lane converges: the swimmer's stroke, the golfer's swing, the hockey check, and the lifter's press all deliver their damage here, and the patient with a painful arc rarely arrives with the mechanism labeled. This 2-hour online course is built for the doctor who needs a reliable evaluation sequence and treatment plan for any athletic shoulder that walks in, taught by a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Practitioners with three decades on professional sidelines. Every completion generates an instant certificate for your renewal file.
Choose Your Sports CE Path — Three Lanes, One Curriculum
The catalog is organized the way sports injuries actually present: by mechanism — thirteen 2-hour courses across eight sports, sideline readiness, and the regions every practice sees. Start in the lane that matches your patient roster; the full catalog lives on the Athletic Injuries category page.
1 · Sport by Sport
Mechanism-specific injury patterns — match the lane to your patient roster's seasons.
202: Basketball Injuries
204: Swimming Injuries
205: Hockey Injuries
207: Weight Lifting
208: Football Injuries — Turf Toe
210: The Triathlete
211: Upper Body Golf Injuries
212: Racquet Sports Injuries
2 · Sideline & Safety
Field readiness for the DC covering games, meets, and events — the lane that prepares you before the whistle.
203: Emergency Procedures for the Sideline Physician
213: Dehydration & Heat Illness
3 · Region & Recovery
Cross-sport anatomy and the general active population — the injuries every practice sees regardless of season. You are here: Athletic Injuries 206.
201: Hand & Thumb
206: Athletic Injuries of the Shoulder
209: Exercise Injuries
New athletic injury courses are added to these lanes as faculty release them.
What You'll Learn in Athletic Injuries 206
• Discuss shoulder anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics relevant to athletic injuries — the overhead, contact, and weight-bearing demands that produce them.
• Review proper diagnostic and imaging approaches for common sports-related shoulder conditions, including orthopedic testing and the red-flag findings that change management.
• Outline office-based chiropractic treatment options for managing athletic injuries of the shoulder, with rehabilitation considerations.
• Design prevention and rehabilitation strategies — recovery, load management, and patient education — that support safe return to sport.
Your Sports Medicine Faculty
Dennis O'Hara, DC, DACBSP — instructor of this course — brings the sports specialty's board credential, Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Practitioners, to the highest-stakes coursework in the series: athletic injuries of the shoulder (206) and emergency procedures for the sideline physician (203). A chiropractic sports physician with more than 30 years treating elite athletes, including service as Team Chiropractor for D.C. United of Major League Soccer, Dr. O'Hara is a lead instructor for CCEDseminars and postgraduate faculty for Texas Chiropractic College, delivering evidence-based education that bridges sideline emergency care and clinical rehabilitation.
Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM authors the sport-specific core of the series, nine courses spanning basketball through racquet sports, as a certified sports-medicine chiropractor, Navy veteran, and founder of Championship Chiropractic in Las Vegas who also leads the Adjusting & Manual Therapy curriculum.
Michael Hall, DC, FIACN examines football's turf toe (208) with a chiropractic neurologist's precision, and Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN — board-certified in clinical nutrition — teaches dehydration and heat illness (213) where physiology and field safety meet.
Full bios and the complete instructor roster: CCEDseminars faculty page.
Where Athletic Injury Hours Count — State Rules Worth Knowing
Athletic injury coursework is clinical subject matter — assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation — which is exactly what several state boards ask for. In Iowa, these hours feed the 36-hour clinical case-management minimum; in Rhode Island, they serve the 50-of-60 clinical requirement; and in Vermont — where practice-building coursework earns no credit at all — patient-care education like this counts fully under the clinical-focus rule.
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 Sports CE 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 complete 26-hour series lands at roughly $416 instead of $520, with no promo codes. The natural pairings for this course are the rest of the Region & Recovery lane — 201 Hand & Thumb and 209 Exercise Injuries — and the overhead sports that feed the shoulder its work: 204 Swimming, 211 Upper Body Golf, and 212 Racquet Sports. Browse Athletic Injuries Courses
Athletic Injuries 206 — Frequently Asked Questions
What does Athletic Injuries 206 cover?
The athletic shoulder from anatomy to return to sport: shoulder anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics, common overuse and traumatic injuries in athletes, clinical evaluation including orthopedic testing, imaging considerations and key red-flag findings, office-based chiropractic treatment options with rehabilitation considerations, and patient education for recovery, load management, and injury prevention. Also known as athletic shoulder injuries, rotator cuff injury management, shoulder impingement CE, sports shoulder evaluation, and chiropractic sports medicine for the shoulder.
How many CE hours is Athletic Injuries 206, and what is the format?
2 CE hours, fully online and self-paced — a recorded online presentation you can pause and resume at any time, followed by an assessment. Your certificate is available in your account immediately upon successful completion, and you have up to one year from the date of purchase to complete the course.
Does this course cover rotator cuff injuries and shoulder impingement?
Yes. The overuse patterns of the overhead athlete — rotator cuff pathology and impingement — and the traumatic presentations of contact and weight-bearing sports are the shoulder conditions the course is built around, with the orthopedic testing that identifies the structure involved, the imaging considerations and red flags that change management, and the office-based treatment and rehabilitation plan for each.
Is this course accepted for my state's chiropractic license renewal?
Athletic Injuries 206 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 Athletic Injuries 206?
2 CE hours · $40 · online & self-paced · instant certificate. Add it to your cart, or pair it with 204 and 211 for the overhead-athlete set.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated August 27, 2026 (CT)