This 15 hour self-paced program combines ancient wisdom with modern research, offering practical, interactive, and deeply informative content to prepare you to utilize what you learn in practice right away. Looking through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), you'll add new treatments to your toolbelt to help accelerate recovery in your pediatric patients.
As you progress through this self-paced course, you'll develop a comprehensive understanding of the growth and development of children according to TCM, disease etiology, diagnostic techniques, and a variety of treatment modalities.
Develop diagnostic techniques and treatment methods to effectively manage common pediatric illnesses
Learn how to apply TCM principles to pediatric health, understand the concept of jing and its cycles, explore the seven expressions of child wellness, and master the stages of development according to the 5 Element Theory.
Discover how lifestyle, diet, and internal factors influence pediatric diseases, understand chronicity, and learn to identify and treat major illness patterns.
Master TCM diagnostic methods, including interrogation, inspection, palpation, and auscultation, compare finger vein palpation with pulse diagnosis, review primitive reflexes, and explore treatment options such as needling, herbs, and tui na.
Learn advanced TCM treatment methods like moxa, gua sha, Shoni shin, and TCM food therapy to effectively address digestive dysfunction.
Discover TCM patterns and treatment options to effectively manage teething, oral thrush, fever, influenza, coughing, pneumonia, asthma, allergies, tonsillitis, and conjunctivitis.
Learn TCM patterns and treatment options for bedwetting, UTIs, spectrum disorders, dyslexia, cerebral palsy, myopia, and strabismus.
Throughout the course, you'll engage with video lectures, research presentations and quizzes to assess your learning.
Here's a quick overview of the course modules and curriculum:
TUITION OPTIONS
Get immediate access to begin working on this self-paced online course today. This coursework is considered "300 level" and may contribute towards the hours requirement earning your Diplomate of The American Board of Chiropractic Acupuncture.
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Up to 17 CE hours available for Chiropractors in states that accept PACE
*Hours may count towards those required for the ABCA Diplomate*
Here's how it works:
✔️ Pay the first installment today
✔️ 2nd payment drafts in 1 month
✔️ Final payment drafts in 2 months
✔️ Tuition must be paid-in-full before completion
With over two decades of experience in TCM, our expert instructor has trained thousands of healthcare professionals worldwide.
Dr. Kris Tohtz graduated magna cum laude from the National University of Health Sciences in April 2001. While attending chiropractic school, she also began working toward a Diplomate in Acupuncture and in August 2009 received her Diplomate in Acupuncture from the American Chiropractic Association’s. After attending two supervised medical internships in Beijing and Hangzhou, China, she found advanced studies to be warranted and obtained her Master of Science in Acupuncture (MsAc) through the National University of Health Sciences graduating summa cum laude in August 2014. Dr Tohtz is a trained post-partum doula as well as completed an advanced certification in Pregnancy and Pediatric care through the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, and she is presently helping the ACA Pediatrics Council as their Diplomate Educational Co-Coordinator for which she won Pediatric Chiropractor of the Year 2023. She also successfully completed training to become a practitioner in the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy and holds a specialty teaching certificate from Association of College and University Educators (ACUE). She teaches continuing education to healthcare practitioners of all types on the topics of acupuncture, dry needling, pregnancy, nutrition, and pediatric care. She has also earned a certification through the prestigious Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). She has served the ACA Acupuncture Council in all positions for over 10 years and served on the Illinois Department of Professional Regulations Acupuncture Board for 6 years.
Dr. Tohtz has been a clinician for over 23 years and is the owner and lead clinician at Serenity Family Wellness, a managing partner at Fusion Care, LLC, the Educational Co-Coordinator for the ACA Pediatric Council’s Diplomate Program and is a Chiropractic Physician and practicing Chiropractic Physician and acupuncturist though the Veteran Administration at Post St. Lucie, Florida. In her free time, she loves hiking, gardening, cooking and spending time with her husband and dog.
Many practitioners with only 100 hours of acupuncture training may shy away from treating children with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM); however adding these treatment into your toolbelt will only accelerate the healing done in your office. This course is designed to open the possibilities of how to treat children in the TCM lens and how to identify imbalances in their bodies to best formulate a TCM treatment plan.
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