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Athletic Injuries 208 — at a Glance
| Course: | Football Injuries – Turf Toe · 2 CE hours · $40 |
| Faculty: | Michael Hall, DC, FIACN · chiropractic neurologist and Fellow of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology |
| 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 208 is a focused chiropractic course on turf toe — one of football's most frustrating forefoot injuries, the first-MTP joint sprain that can derail a season by limiting push-off, acceleration, and cutting ability long after everything else has healed. Dr. Michael Hall takes the injury from the anatomy and biomechanics of the first metatarsophalangeal joint in football athletes, through mechanism and grading of turf toe lesions, history, physical examination, and key clinical findings, imaging considerations and the differential diagnosis at the great toe, to chiropractic treatment and co-management strategies, taping, footwear, orthotic, and field-surface considerations, and rehabilitation concepts with return-to-play guidelines.
Turf toe hides in plain sight: a "jammed toe" that keeps a lineman off his push-off or a receiver out of his cut, undergraded on the sideline and undertreated in the clinic. This 2-hour online course is built for the doctor who covers football at any level and for the practice that sees cleated athletes all season — taught by a chiropractic neurologist whose examination sequence turns a vague forefoot complaint into a graded lesion with a plan. 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. You are here: Athletic Injuries 208.
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.
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 208
• Describe the anatomy, biomechanics, and mechanisms of turf toe in football players — the first-MTP joint under push-off load.
• Perform an appropriate history and physical examination for suspected turf toe, and discuss imaging indications, grading, and the differential diagnosis at the great toe.
• Outline chiropractic treatment, support, and rehabilitation strategies — including taping, footwear, orthotic, and field-surface considerations — with co-management where indicated.
• Apply return-to-play and prevention principles for football athletes with forefoot injuries.
Your Sports Medicine Faculty
Michael Hall, DC, FIACN — instructor of this course — is a widely respected chiropractic neurologist and educator, a Fellow of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology, with extensive experience in sports-related concussion, lower extremity injuries, and on-field assessment. His teaching emphasizes clinical reasoning, practical examination skills, and evidence-informed management strategies chiropractors can apply immediately in practice and on the sideline; he also leads the CCEDseminars Neurology series.
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.
Dennis O'Hara, DC, DACBSP brings the sports specialty's board credential — Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Practitioners — to emergency procedures for the sideline physician (203) and athletic injuries of the shoulder (206), 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 football's own coverage set — 203 Emergency Procedures for the Sideline Physician for the doctor on the field when it happens, 213 Dehydration & Heat Illness for two-a-days, and 205 Hockey Injuries for the other collision sport on the roster. Browse Athletic Injuries Courses
Athletic Injuries 208 — Frequently Asked Questions
What does Athletic Injuries 208 cover?
Turf toe from anatomy to return to play: the anatomy and biomechanics of the first MTP joint in football athletes, mechanism of injury and grading of turf toe lesions, history, physical examination, and key clinical findings, imaging considerations and differential diagnosis at the great toe, chiropractic treatment options and co-management strategies, taping, footwear, orthotic, and field-surface considerations, and rehabilitation concepts with return-to-play guidelines. Also known as turf toe injury, first MTP joint sprain, great toe sprain in football, plantar plate and sesamoid injury, and forefoot injuries in cleated athletes.
How many CE hours is Athletic Injuries 208, 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 turf toe grading and return-to-play decisions?
Yes. Grading the lesion is the hinge of the course — the history, physical examination, and imaging indications that separate a grade I capsular sprain from a plantar-plate or sesamoid injury — because the grade drives everything downstream: the chiropractic treatment and support plan, taping and footwear strategy, when to co-manage, and the return-to-play timeline for push-off, acceleration, and cutting.
Is this course accepted for my state's chiropractic license renewal?
Athletic Injuries 208 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 208?
2 CE hours · $40 · online & self-paced · instant certificate. Add it to your cart, or pair it with 203 and 213 for full football coverage.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated August 27, 2026 (CT)