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Geriatrics 308 — at a Glance
| Course: | Strength Training for Older Adults · 2 PACE-approved CE hours |
| Faculty: | Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM · Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Faculty, CCEDseminars |
| Format: | On-demand online video with case walk-throughs and assessment · downloadable handouts · 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
The ageing patient in your practice is losing muscle faster than bone, and most of it is preventable. Sarcopenia is now classified as a musculoskeletal disease in its own right, it accelerates in sedentary older adults, and its consequences — falls, fractures, loss of independence — are the same ones that fill a chiropractic schedule. This two-hour course, presented by Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM, an NSCA-certified personal trainer, is built on the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s position statement on resistance training for older adults and treats strength training as a clinical prescription rather than a gym suggestion.
The course moves from physiology to prescription: how skeletal muscle and mitochondria change with age, why type II fibres go first, and what that means for frailty, bone mineral density, resting metabolic rate and cognition. It then works through the program variables — sets, repetitions, intensity, modality, frequency, rest and speed — the general guidelines for an older trainee, and a spine-first exercise set with full technique cues, contraindications and progressions, from thoracic extension and scapular retraction to wall planks, the Pallof press and the hyperextension.
Choose Your Geriatrics Path — Four Lanes, One Curriculum
The Geriatrics series runs from the biology of aging outward to the structures it acts on: what changes in an ageing body, how degeneration presents region by region, and how balance, posture and cognition are assessed and rehabilitated. Seven courses, two hours each.
1 · Aging and Bone Health (201, 205)
Why the body ages the way it does, and what happens to the skeleton that carries it — the biology underneath every other file in the category.
205: Introduction to Aging & Longevity
201: Osteoporosis Management
2 · Osteoarthritis by Region (202–204)
Degenerative joint disease worked region by region — spine, lower extremity, upper extremity — with the diagnostic, in-office and rehabilitative decisions that differ at each.
202: Spinal Osteoarthritis Management
203: Lower Extremity Osteoarthritis
204: Upper Extremity Osteoarthritis
3 · Neurology, Balance and Cognition (206–207)
The neurological side of aging: coordination and fall risk, and the postural and grip-strength markers that track cognitive and biological decline.
206: Coordination & Balance Rehab
207: Head Posture, Cognition and Grip Strength
4 · Strength, Movement and Function (300 series)
From assessment to intervention — what to prescribe for the ageing patient, how to load it, and how to progress it safely. The 300 series is where the earlier lanes turn into a plan, and 308 is the first of it released on demand. You are here: Geriatrics 308.
308: Strength Training for Older Adults
Every course in the series is 2 PACE-approved CE hours at $40, and the automatic bundle discounts apply across the whole lane.
What You'll Learn in Geriatrics 308
Explain skeletal muscle ageing, mitochondrial dysfunction and the preferential loss of type II fibres, and connect them to sarcopenia, frailty, osteopenia and falls risk in the older patient.
Apply the NSCA-based general guidelines for resistance training in older adults — medical clearance, symptom-free range of motion, technique before load, eccentric control, low volume and built-in recovery.
Set and adjust program variables — sets, repetitions, intensity, exercise selection, modality, frequency, rest and speed — and use the four progression and four regression criteria, including the two-for-two rule, to keep loading calculated.
Coach the spine-first exercise set with correct technique and contraindications: thoracic extension (seated, prone and barbell), isometric scapular retraction, hyperextensions, standing wall and side-wall planks, the Pallof press and the Three Point Samurai.
Your Geriatrics Faculty
Donald Ozello, DC, CCN, CCSM,instructor of this course. Sports chiropractor, founder of Championship Chiropractic in Las Vegas, and Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Faculty at CCEDseminars. He teaches functional movement and rehabilitation for athletes and seniors, and carries the three regional osteoarthritis files (202–204).
Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN,Executive Member of the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition Faculty at CCEDseminars. He teaches the nutritional and functional-medicine side of geriatric care — the bone, metabolic and lifestyle files (201, 205).
Michael Hall, DC, FIACN,Chiropractic neurology specialist, founder of BrainDC.org and Neurology Faculty at CCEDseminars, with more than 30 years of clinical and academic experience. He teaches the neurological files in this category — coordination, balance and the postural and cognitive markers of aging (206–207).
Full bios and the complete instructor roster: CCEDseminars faculty page.
Where Geriatrics CE Hours Count — State Rules Worth Knowing
Geriatrics coursework is clinical subject matter — assessment, diagnosis and case management of the aging patient — which is exactly what several state boards ask for. In Iowa, these hours serve the 36-hour clinical case-management minimum; in Rhode Island, they address the 50-of-60 clinical requirement; and in Vermont — where practice-building coursework earns nothing — 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 Geriatrics Block
Every course in the Geriatrics series runs 2 hours at $40, so the automatic discounts do the bundling for you: 6–9 hours in one order earns 10% off, and 10 or more earns 20% off — all eight on-demand Geriatrics courses together is 16 hours, which clears the 20% tier at roughly $256 instead of $320, with no promo codes. Strength Training pairs naturally with Geriatrics 201 on osteoporosis management and Geriatrics 206 on coordination and balance rehab; the three together reach 6 hours and the 10% tier. Browse Geriatrics Courses
Geriatrics 308 — Frequently Asked Questions
What does Geriatrics 308 cover?
Skeletal muscle ageing and sarcopenia, frailty and osteopenia, the benefits and physiological adaptations of resistance training in older adults, definitions of overload, progressive overload and overtraining, general guidelines for older trainees, program variables, progression and regression criteria, a spine-first exercise set with technique and contraindications, and the nutrition that supports training — caloric and protein intake and fruit and vegetable consumption.
Is this a course about sending patients to the gym?
No. It is about applying strength training clinically: who benefits, how to start safely, how to load and progress, and which exercises to coach in the office. Dr. Ozello works from the NSCA position statement on resistance training for older adults and from his own practice, and each exercise is taught cue by cue so you can teach it rather than just recommend it.
Which exercises are taught?
Thoracic extension in seated, standing, kneeling, prone and barbell variations; isometric scapular retraction; hyperextensions, with contraindications for lumbar facet syndrome, central stenosis and neurogenic intermittent claudication; standing wall planks and side wall planks; the Pallof press; and the Three Point Samurai double anti-rotation press. Squats and deadlifts, power training and functional movements are covered in the program section.
How do I know when to progress or regress an exercise?
The course gives four criteria for each. Progress when the patient completes the work with less than the prescribed rest, plateaus on load or speed, exceeds the repetition target by 10–20%, or reports it feels too easy. Regress when they cannot complete subsequent sets with the outlined rest, must reduce speed or load, complete less than 80–90% of the desired work, or report it is too hard or cannot perform it properly. The two-for-two rule is taught as the working standard.
How many CE hours is it, and where does it sit in the Geriatrics series?
Two CE hours. It opens a fourth lane in the Geriatrics curriculum — Strength, Movement and Function — alongside Aging and Bone Health, Osteoarthritis by Region, and Neurology, Balance and Cognition, and it is the first of the 300 series released on demand. The CCG certification bundle currently defines Geriatrics 201–207; 308 is a standalone Geriatrics elective.
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 Geriatrics 308?
Every older patient you see is either training or detraining. Two hours here gives you the physiology to explain why it matters, the guidelines to prescribe safely, and a starting set of exercises you can coach in the office.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated September 3, 2026 (CT)