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SPEC Board Review

You Already Know How to Be a Doctor. Let's Reconnect What You Know to the SPEC Exam.

If you're preparing for the Special Purposes Examination for Chiropractic, there's a good chance it has been years, maybe even decades, since you sat in a classroom and reviewed this material in detail.

But that doesn't mean you're starting over.

You have something today's chiropractic student doesn't have yet: years of clinical experience.

The Chiro Boards & Beyond SPEC Review is designed to take the clinical knowledge you've accumulated throughout your career and reconnect it with the detailed diagnostic, neuromusculoskeletal, imaging, technique, and case-management information you need to prepare for SPEC.

This is not a quick refresher built around a few lists of facts. It's a 20+ hour comprehensive clinical review, organized to help you remember what you learned years ago, connect it to patients you've actually treated, and translate that knowledge back into board-style questions.

Your clinical experience is an advantage. Let's use it.

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SPEC Board Review

You Already Know How to Be a Doctor. Let's Reconnect What You Know to the SPEC Exam.

If you're preparing for the Special Purposes Examination for Chiropractic, there's a good chance it has been years, maybe even decades, since you sat in a classroom and reviewed this material in detail.

But that doesn't mean you're starting over.

You have something today's chiropractic student doesn't have yet: years of clinical experience.

The Chiro Boards & Beyond SPEC Review is designed to take the clinical knowledge you've accumulated throughout your career and reconnect it with the detailed diagnostic, neuromusculoskeletal, imaging, technique, and case-management information you need to prepare for SPEC.

This is not a quick refresher built around a few lists of facts. It's a 20+ hour comprehensive clinical review, organized to help you remember what you learned years ago, connect it to patients you've actually treated, and translate that knowledge back into board-style questions.

Your clinical experience is an advantage. Let's use it.

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20+

Hours of Instruction

Regional

How the Material Is Organized

Perfect 800s

Scored by multiple SPEC Candidates

Live

Office Hours Included

YOUR EXPERIENCE STILL COUNTS

You Haven't Forgotten How to Be a Doctor

You may simply not have thought about some of this material in years. That's an important distinction.

If you've been away from practice, preparing to return to practice, changing licensure, or have another reason you're required to take SPEC, opening board-review material again can feel overwhelming.

Conditions you haven't treated recently. Terminology you haven't used since school. X-ray findings you haven't reviewed in years. Orthopedic tests you haven't needed in your particular style of practice. Details you once knew, but haven't had a reason to retrieve for a very long time.

That doesn't erase your clinical experience.

My job is to help you reconnect with it.

Throughout this program, I take the review material and connect it back to patients, presentations, and clinical situations you may already recognize from your years in practice.  

 

"Instead of asking your brain to learn everything as brand-new information, we're often asking: where have I seen this before?"

That changes the way you study.

Why I Give SPEC Doctors a More Detailed Review

I made a very deliberate decision when I created this program.

I would rather give you more clinical review than assume you still remember something you learned 10, 20, or 30 years ago.

That's why the Chiro Boards & Beyond SPEC Review is built from the depth of my Part III clinical review.

You receive detailed instruction in:

Neuromusculoskeletal Diagnosis

Clinical Presentations and Differential Diagnosis

Extensive Diagnostic Imaging and X-ray Review

Chiropractic Technique and Procedures

General Diagnosis

Case Management

Clinical Reasoning

Board-style Question Strategy

Testing Samples and Practice Questions

Some of this material may come back immediately. Some of it may make you say, "I haven't thought about that since chiropractic school."

Good. That's why we're reviewing it now, before the exam asks you about it.

Organized by Body Region,
Not as Disconnected Information

One of the most important differences in my SPEC Review is how the clinical information is organized.

I don't want you studying diagnosis in one isolated section, neuromusculoskeletal conditions somewhere else, X-ray somewhere else, and procedures somewhere else, then expecting your brain to somehow pull all those pieces together during a clinical question.

Instead, I organize much of the material by body region.

Why? Because that's how doctors think clinically.

SAMPLE CASE:

A patient doesn't walk into your office labeled "Neuromusculoskeletal Diagnosis". They walk in saying, "My neck hurts," "My shoulder hurts," "I'm having numbness down my arm," or "My low back pain is going into my leg."

Now your clinical brain starts working.

? What could this be?
? What questions should I ask?
? What would I expect to find?
? What examination would help me differentiate it?
? Is imaging appropriate?
? What might I see?
? What else could look similar?
 

That's the thinking process we're reconnecting to SPEC.

Less Disjointed Information.
More Complete Clinical Pictures.

When we study by body region, related information begins to reconnect.

Presentation History Examination Diagnosis Differential Imaging Management

Now we're connecting new review information to something much stronger than memorization. We're connecting it to your existing clinical experience.Maybe you treated that condition hundreds of times. Maybe you only saw it twice. Maybe you remember exactly what that patient looked like when they walked into your office.

Those clinical memories become retrieval pathways. That's something we can use.

WHAT'S COVERED

20+ Hours of Detailed Clinical Review

The Chiro Boards & Beyond SPEC Review includes more than 20 hours of on-demand recorded instruction designed to provide the depth of review that may be especially valuable when you've been away from academic material for an extended period.

General Diagnosis
 

Revisit systemic disease, clinical presentations, laboratory concepts, diagnostic patterns, and the conditions you may not have reviewed in detail for years. We connect those concepts back to the way a patient might actually present.

Neuromusculoskeletal Diagnosis

Review spinal and extremity conditions regionally, comparing presentations and helping you distinguish diagnoses with overlapping findings. Instead of memorizing another list, we'll work on rebuilding the clinical pattern.

Chiropractic Technique and Procedures

Reconnect with the chiropractic procedures and technique concepts relevant to the examination, including material you may not routinely use in your current or previous style of practice.

Diagnostic Imaging and X-ray

You receive the detailed X-ray instruction incorporated into my Part III clinical review. You may or may not encounter actual radiographic films in the exact way you expect on your examination, but I intentionally include the deeper imaging review.

Imaging is another way to strengthen your understanding of pathology, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, and the complete patient picture.

Case Management

Bring the pieces together and think through what happens next.

  • What does this patient need?
  • What is appropriate?
  • What needs additional evaluation?
  • What changes the management decision?

This is where remembering information becomes clinical reasoning.

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Sports Medicine Is More Than Orthopedic Injuries

When people think about sports chiropractic, they often immediately think about shoulders, knees, ankles, and spinal injuries. But the CCSP examination requires a much broader understanding of the athlete — this review reaches well beyond musculoskeletal diagnosis.

The completed program will cover areas including:

THE WHOLE ATHLETE
  •  Sports Physiology
  •  Biomechanics
  •  Sports Nutrition
  •  Concussion
  •  Special Conditions
PRACTICE & READINESS
  •  Team Concepts
  •  Medico-Legal Concepts
  •  Environmental Considerations
  •  Emergency Procedures
  •  Injury Prevention
  •  Adjunctive Therapies
REGIONAL PATHOLOGY & IMAGING
  •  Spinal Pathologies
  •  Upper Extremity Pathologies
  •  Lower Extremity Pathologies
  •  Diagnostic Imaging & X-Ray

The goal is to help you organize this broad body of information into something you can understand, retrieve, and apply.

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Approximately 15 to 16 Hours of Comprehensive CCSP Instruction

When completed, your CCSP Board Review will contain approximately 15 to 16 hours of recorded lecture material covering the major areas of sports chiropractic examination preparation.

Sports Physiology

Review the physiological demands of exercise and athletic performance, then connect those concepts to the athlete you're evaluating and managing.

Team Concepts

Understand the role of the sports chiropractor within the larger sports medicine environment, including working with athletes, coaches, trainers, and other healthcare professionals.

Concussion

Review concussion assessment and management concepts, including recognition, evaluation, clinical decision-making, and return-to-activity considerations.

Biomechanics

Connect biomechanics to athletic movement, injury mechanisms, examination findings, and clinical management.

Sports Nutrition

Review the nutritional concepts relevant to athletic performance, recovery, hydration, and the needs of active patients.

Environmental Considerations

Prepare for conditions related to the athlete's environment, including the factors that can affect performance, safety, and medical decision-making.

Medico-Legal Considerations

Review the professional, legal, documentation, and decision-making concepts that become particularly important when caring for athletes.

Adjunctive Therapies

Organize the adjunctive treatment approaches that may be incorporated into sports chiropractic management.

Special Conditions

Review important special populations and conditions that can affect athletic participation, examination, management, and return-to-play decisions.

Injury Prevention

Move beyond treating an injury after it occurs.

Review the concepts involved in identifying risk, reducing injury potential, and helping athletes participate more safely.

Emergency Procedures

Know how to recognize when an athletic situation has moved beyond routine musculoskeletal care and requires immediate action. We'll review the concepts and sequencing that matter when you're managing an emergency rather than simply memorizing isolated procedures.

Then We Take a Regional Approach to Sports Injuries

Once we move into the musculoskeletal material, I organize the information in a way that helps you see the complete clinical picture.

Spine

Review common spinal conditions and injuries relevant to sports chiropractic, including presentation, examination findings, management considerations, and relevant imaging.

Upper Extremity

Work through common athletic conditions involving the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand. Instead of memorizing a collection of injury names, we connect:

Mechanism Presentation Examination Diagnosis Management

Lower Extremity

Apply the same approach to the hip, knee, lower leg, ankle, and foot.

? What happened?
? What structure is most likely involved?
? What would you expect to find?
? What else could look similar?
? What should you do next?

That's clinical reasoning, not just memorization.

Knowing the Material Isn't Enough.
You Have to Apply It.

That's why I'm incorporating Putting It Together instruction into the CCSP Review.

We'll take the information you've learned and work through potential test questions and clinical scenarios.

Instead of simply asking:

“Do I remember this fact?”

We start asking:

What is this question actually testing?
What clues did they give me?
What information matters?
Which answer can I eliminate?
What is the most appropriate answer based on this athlete's presentation?

This is where the individual pieces begin becoming clinical reasoning.

Learn it. Connect it. Apply it.

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TEST STRATEGY

Learn the Content, Then Learn How It May Be Tested

One of the themes you'll recognize throughout Chiro Boards & Beyond is that I don't believe exam preparation should stop with content review.

You also need to understand how multiple-choice questions work.

Throughout the CCSP Review, I'll highlight concepts that are likely to create confusion and help you recognize:

  •  Similar conditions with overlapping findings
  •  Important differentiating features
  •  Plausible distractors
  •  Questions where more than one statement may sound correct
  •  Small details that change the best answer

And one of my most important testing rules still applies: Answer the question they actually asked.

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Built by a Chiropractor Who Understands Both Sides of Sports Medicine

Sports medicine has been part of my professional background long before creating this course.

I bring experience from both allopathic sports medicine and chiropractic practice into the way I teach this material.

That perspective allows us to look at more than simply:

“What is the diagnosis?”

I want you thinking:

How did this happen?
What does the examination tell me?
What needs to be ruled out?
Is this athlete safe to continue?
What is the appropriate management?
When is referral necessary?
How does this affect return to activity?
And ultimately: What would I actually do if this athlete were sitting in front of me?

This Is Board Prep You Can Bring Back to the Office

Passing the CCSP examination is the immediate goal.

But this isn't information you should forget once the test is over.

You're preparing for a sports chiropractic credential because you want to expand what you can do for athletes and active patients.

  The concussion material matters when someone takes a hit.
  The emergency procedures matter when something goes wrong on the field.
  The biomechanics matter when you're trying to understand why an injury keeps recurring.
  The nutrition and physiology matter when you're talking about performance and recovery.
  The orthopedic material matters when you're evaluating an injured athlete.
  The imaging matters when you're deciding what you're actually looking at.

The test is one day.
The clinical knowledge comes back to the office with you.

That's the “Beyond” in Chiro Boards & Beyond.

STUDY ON YOUR OWN SCHEDULE

Study around your practice, not the other way around.

Most doctors preparing for the CCSP examination aren't sitting in a classroom all day. You're seeing patients, running a practice, managing a family, completing continuing education — and somehow fitting exam preparation into everything else.

That's exactly where on-demand learning becomes valuable.

Watch the lectures when your schedule allows. Pause when a patient walks in. Rewatch a difficult concept. Return to concussion. Go back through emergency procedures.

The classroom waits for you.
LIVE SUPPORT INCLUDED

On-Demand Doesn't Mean On Your Own

You're not purchasing 15 to 16 hours of recorded material and then being expected to figure everything else out by yourself. Your CCSP Review also includes access to scheduled live online Office Hours with Dr. Jo.

As you're working through the program, bring your questions.

  •  Confused about an injury presentation? Ask.
  • Want clarification on a concussion concept? Bring it.
  • Can't differentiate two similar orthopedic conditions? Let's work through them.
  • Have a question about a potential test question? Let's break it apart.
  • Confused about an injury presentation? Ask.
  • Want clarification on a concussion concept? Bring it.
  • Can't differentiate two similar orthopedic conditions? Let's work through them.
  • Have a question about a potential test question? Let's break it apart.

Office Hours allow you to combine the flexibility of on-demand learning with opportunities for live instructor support and clarification.

Learn on your schedule. Get live support when you need it.

OFFICE HOURS ROTATION

Week 1 Wednesday mornings
Week 2 Wednesday evenings
Week 3 Saturday afternoons
Week 4 Rotation repeats

Office Hours are offered at scheduled times and may rotate to accommodate students in different time zones.

What You Get With Your
Part IV With Diagnostic Imaging

01

Approximately 15 to 16 hours of comprehensive recorded instruction

02

Sports Physiology

03

Team Concepts

04

Concussion

05

Biomechanics

06

Sports Nutrition

07

Environmental Considerations

08

Medico-Legal Concepts

09

Adjunctive Therapies

10

Injury Prevention

11

Emergency Procedures

12

Special Conditions

13

Spinal Pathologies

14

Upper Extremity Pathologies

15

Lower Extremity Pathologies

16

Relevant X-ray and Diagnostic Imaging findings

17

Putting It Together instruction using potential test questions and clinical scenarios

18

Clinical reasoning and differential diagnosis

19

Multiple-choice question strategy

20

Common distractors and testing traps

21

Supporting study materials

22

The ability to pause, rewind, and rewatch

23

Scheduled live online Office Hours with Dr. Jo

24

Clinical connections you can carry into your sports chiropractic practice

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WANT MORE INDIVIDUALIZED CCSP PREPARATION?

Add 1:1 tutoring with Dr. Jo 

The recorded program gives you the comprehensive foundation.

Private tutoring lets us focus specifically on your weak areas.

We can work through sports injury presentations, concussion, emergency procedures, extremity conditions, imaging, or potential exam questions.

If you've completed the review and are getting closer to your testing date, tutoring also gives us an opportunity to identify the areas that still need attention instead of spending your final preparation time reviewing everything again.

The course gives you the framework. Tutoring lets us focus on YOU. 

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Frequently Asked Question

You're Not Just Adding Letters After Your Name.

You don't need to build your own study program from pieces of different courses. I've already done that for you.

Prepare for the examination.
Understand the clinical material.
Recognize the patterns.
Work through the questions.

Then take that knowledge back to your patients.

Get approximately 15 to 16 hours of comprehensive CCSP instruction, sports medicine review, regional pathology, concussion, emergency procedures, Diagnostic Imaging, Putting It Together questions, live Office Hours, and clinical application.


Prepare for the test.

Strengthen your sports medicine knowledge.
Bring it back to the athlete in front of you.

That's CCSP preparation with Chiro Boards & Beyond.
Studying Soon? 2 Months
Need More Time? 3 Months

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DR. JO KALETA, DC, CCSP

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