Subluxation Neurology (Murphy, Nov 1-2, 2025 Hayward Campus)

Hayward, CA US
November 1, 2025 to November 2, 2025

Overview

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4 exam/technique, 6 general, 2 ethics CE hours

Schedule

Saturday, November 1, 2025 8:00am - 5:00pm

Sunday, November 2, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm 


Bring your own lunch and snacks

Learning Objectives

  • Understand neurology and physiology of subluxation and pain perception
  • Identify and manage subluxation by applying neurological principles
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.00 AK Chiropractic Board
    Alaska Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 AZ Chiropractic Board
    Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 1.00 CA Chiro Board, Category B
    CA Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Cat B
  • 5.00 CA Chiropractic Board, Category A Exam/Adjust/Billing
    California Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Category A Exam/Adjust/Billing
  • 6.00 CO Chiropractic Board
    Colorado Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 CT Chiropractic Board
    Connecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiner
  • 6.00 DC Chiropractic Board
    District of Columbia Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 DE Chiropractic Board
    Delaware Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 HI Chiropractic Board
    Hawaii Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 IA Chiropractic Board
    Iowa Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 ID Chiropractic Board
    Idaho Board of Chiropractic Physicians
  • 6.00 IL Chiropractic Board
    Illinois Medical Licensing Board
  • 6.00 IN Chiropractic Board
    Indiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 KS Chiropractic Assoc
    Kansas Chiropractic Association
  • 6.00 MA Chiropractic Board
    Massachusetts Board of Registration of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 MB Chiropractic Assoc
    Manitoba Chiropractors' Association
  • 6.00 MD Chiropractic Board
    Maryland Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 ME Chiropractic Board
    Maine Board of Chiropractic Licensure
  • 6.00 MN Chiropractic Board
    Minnesota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 MO Chiropractic Board
    Missouri Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 MS Chiropractic Board
    Mississippi Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 MT Chiropractic Board
    Montana Board of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 NB Chiropractic Assoc
    New Brunswick Chiropractors' Association
  • 6.00 NC Chiropractic Board
    North Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 ND Chiropractic Board
    North Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 NE Chiropractic Board
    Nebraska Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 NH Chiropractic Board
    New Hampshire Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 NJ Chiropractic Board
    New Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 NS Chiropractic College
    Nova Scotia College of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 NV Chiropractic Board
    Nevada Chiropractic Physicians' Board
  • 6.00 OH Chiropractic Board
    Ohio Chiropractic Board
  • 6.00 ON Chiropractic College
    Ontario College of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 OR Chiropractic Board
    Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 PACE
    FCLB Providers of Approved Continuing Education
  • 6.00 PR Chiropractic Board
    Puerto Rico Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 QC Chiropractic Ordre
    Quebec Ordre Des Chiropracticiens
  • 6.00 RI Chiropractic Board
    Rhode Island Board of Examiners in Chiropractic
  • 6.00 SC Chiropractic Board
    South Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 SD Chiropractic Board
    South Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 TN Chiropractic Board
    Tennessee Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 UT Chiropractic Board
    Utah Chiropractic Physicians Licensing Board
  • 6.00 VA Board of Medicine
    Virginia Board of Medicine
  • 6.00 VI Chiropractic Board
    U.S. Virgin Islands Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 VT Chiropractic Board
    Vermont Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 WA Chiropractic Comm
    Washington Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission
  • 6.00 WY Chiropractic Board
    Wyoming Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Course opens: 
10/01/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
11/01/2025 - 8:00am PDT
Event ends: 
11/02/2025 - 12:00pm PST
Cost:
$449.00
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Day 1

8 – 9 am:
Ethics & Law
• Medical Negligence
• Standard of Care for Health Care Professionals
• Duty to Refer to a Specialist
• Abandonment of Patient
• Medical Malpractice
• Informed Consent
9 – 10 am:
Ethics & Law		• The Practice of Chiropractic
• Use of Lasers
• Advertisements
• Chiropractic Specialties
• Illegal Practice
• Conduct on Premises
• Unprofessional Conduct
• Patients Records and Billings
• Informed Consent
10 – 11 am:
Technique

Learn the neurology of pain perception. Learn three types of pain and their clinical differences in terms of chiropractic management. Discuss the integrated physiology between inflammation, fibrosis, the Gate Theory, and chiropractic adjusting.

Discuss and demonstrate appropriate chiropractic technique applicable to inflammation and
fibrosis (majority of hour).

11 – 12 pm:
Technique
Distinguish between the clinical management of compressive neuropathology v. supersensitivity nerve interference.
 
Discuss and demonstrate appropriate chiropractic technique applicable to these cases (majority
of hour).
1 – 2 pm:
Technique		Complete an interactive clinical neuroanatomy of chronic spine pain, including: receptors, synapses, cord pathways, brain representation, and how they are influenced by spinal adjusting.
2 – 3 pm:
Technique
Complete an interactive exercise of spinal mechanoreceptor driven vestibular nuclei controls of somatic function and visceral function.
 
Discuss and demonstrate appropriate chiropractic technique applicable to spine and extremity
pain, including upper cervical adjusting (majority of hour).
3 – 4 pm:
Basic Science		Complete an upper cervical - trigeminal cervical nucleus integrative model for chiropractic spinal adjusting.
4 – 5 pm:
Basic Science

Integrate the clinical relationships between chronic spine pain and spinal mechanoreception, including: constant v. non-constant thalamic summation/integration; ascending inhibitory principles; descending inhibitory principles; immune system function.

Day 2

8 – 9 am:
Basic Science

Discuss the clinical relevance of receptor driven neuroplasticity, synaptogenesis, and transneural degeneration.Discuss the concept of spinal mechanoreceptor driven hypothalamic controls of visceral function.

9 – 10 am:
Basic Science		Discuss the relationship between mechanoreceptors, the sympathetic nervous system, and neuroimmunology.
10 – 11 am:
Basic Science		Discuss the relationships between the nucleus tractus solitarius and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve.
11 – 12 pm:
Basic Science		Review the peer-reviewed literature supporting the models covered in class.
Life Chiropractic College West
25001 Industrial Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
United States
+1 (510) 780-4508
Life Chiropractic College West

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DAN MURPHY, DC, DABCO

Dr. Dan Murphy graduated magna cum laude from Western States Chiropractic College in 1978, and has more than 36 years of practice experience. He received his Diplomate in Chiropractic Orthopedics in 1986. Since 1982, Dr. Murphy has served as part-time undergraduate faculty at Life Chiropractic College West, where he is currently teaching classes to seniors in the Management of Spinal Disorders.

Life Chiropractic College West has received programmatic accreditation through the Council on Chiropractic Education and institutional/regional accreditation through WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC).

See below for a list of credits that may be available for this seminar. 

*The following State and Province boards do not require an application when a program is sponsored by a college accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE): CO, CT, DE, DC, ID, IL, IA, MD, MA, MI, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, RI, SC, UT, VT, VA, WA, WY, BC, NB, ON, QC. Life Chiropractic College West cannot guarantee that these licensing board(s) will accept any session of this offering. Life West urges licensees to familiarize themselves with the laws governing continuing education in the jurisdictions where they hold licensure.

Available Credit Hours

  • 6.00 AK Chiropractic Board
    Alaska Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 AZ Chiropractic Board
    Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 1.00 CA Chiro Board, Category B
    CA Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Cat B
  • 5.00 CA Chiropractic Board, Category A Exam/Adjust/Billing
    California Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Category A Exam/Adjust/Billing
  • 6.00 CO Chiropractic Board
    Colorado Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 CT Chiropractic Board
    Connecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiner
  • 6.00 DC Chiropractic Board
    District of Columbia Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 DE Chiropractic Board
    Delaware Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 HI Chiropractic Board
    Hawaii Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 IA Chiropractic Board
    Iowa Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 ID Chiropractic Board
    Idaho Board of Chiropractic Physicians
  • 6.00 IL Chiropractic Board
    Illinois Medical Licensing Board
  • 6.00 IN Chiropractic Board
    Indiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 KS Chiropractic Assoc
    Kansas Chiropractic Association
  • 6.00 MA Chiropractic Board
    Massachusetts Board of Registration of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 MB Chiropractic Assoc
    Manitoba Chiropractors' Association
  • 6.00 MD Chiropractic Board
    Maryland Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 ME Chiropractic Board
    Maine Board of Chiropractic Licensure
  • 6.00 MN Chiropractic Board
    Minnesota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 MO Chiropractic Board
    Missouri Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 MS Chiropractic Board
    Mississippi Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 MT Chiropractic Board
    Montana Board of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 NB Chiropractic Assoc
    New Brunswick Chiropractors' Association
  • 6.00 NC Chiropractic Board
    North Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 ND Chiropractic Board
    North Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 NE Chiropractic Board
    Nebraska Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 NH Chiropractic Board
    New Hampshire Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 NJ Chiropractic Board
    New Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 NS Chiropractic College
    Nova Scotia College of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 NV Chiropractic Board
    Nevada Chiropractic Physicians' Board
  • 6.00 OH Chiropractic Board
    Ohio Chiropractic Board
  • 6.00 ON Chiropractic College
    Ontario College of Chiropractors
  • 6.00 OR Chiropractic Board
    Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 PACE
    FCLB Providers of Approved Continuing Education
  • 6.00 PR Chiropractic Board
    Puerto Rico Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 QC Chiropractic Ordre
    Quebec Ordre Des Chiropracticiens
  • 6.00 RI Chiropractic Board
    Rhode Island Board of Examiners in Chiropractic
  • 6.00 SC Chiropractic Board
    South Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 SD Chiropractic Board
    South Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 TN Chiropractic Board
    Tennessee Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 UT Chiropractic Board
    Utah Chiropractic Physicians Licensing Board
  • 6.00 VA Board of Medicine
    Virginia Board of Medicine
  • 6.00 VI Chiropractic Board
    U.S. Virgin Islands Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • 6.00 VT Chiropractic Board
    Vermont Board of Chiropractic
  • 6.00 WA Chiropractic Comm
    Washington Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission
  • 6.00 WY Chiropractic Board
    Wyoming Board of Chiropractic Examiners

Price

Cost:
$449.00
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