SOTO-USA now offers you the valuable membership option of certification in both SOT and SOT Cranial work. By adding “Certified SOT Practitioner”(CSP) and “Certified SOT Cranial Practitioner” (CSCP) to your professional credentials, you will be recognized in your community as the unique practitioner that you are. As you interface more effectively with other professionals and with your own patients, your referral base will skyrocket, and so will your income! Once certified, you will gain special listing in our world-wide referral directory.

The following courses are required prior to taking the certification exams. They can be taken regionally throughout the year via SOTO-USA’s Regional Seminar Series.

CSP: SOT Levels One and Two, Extremity Adjusting Level One, and Chiropractic Manipulative Reflex Technique.

CSCP: CSP Certification plus Cranial Levels One, Two and Three.

Those who have completed equivalent course work, either through an accredited chiropractic college or another seminar series, may apply to SOTO-USA for exemption from certain courses by providing proper documentation Each certification exam is comprised of a 100-question written exam as well as a “hands-on” practical. The exams are comprehensive and clinical in nature, designed to test your working knowledge of SOT and SOT Cranial in an office setting. Reference texts for study are those manuals published by SOTO-USA for use in the regional seminar series, as well as the DeJarnette 1984 SOT and 1979-80 Cranial Manuals. The fee for each exam is $250, payable to SOTO-USA at the time of registration.

Appropriate documentation of the required courses, along with a copy of your chiropractic college diploma and current state license must accompany registration. Those doctors with prior certification from other SOT organizations may sit for a written Reciprocity Certification Exam through the end of 2002 only. Join us at the Clinical Symposium in Phoenix, AZ in August and take your certification exam. Written exams will be held on Thursday, Aug. 15 at 10 am. Practical exams will begin at 1pm. For more details about any of the exams, please contact either the SOTO-USA office at (360)760-1618, or Dr. Christine Benner at (212) 929-2424 DrCB@aol.com).