The peripheral nervous system and spinal cord form the structural backbone of every clinical neurological decision. For licensed clinicians treating complex spine, pain, and neuromusculoskeletal presentations, the ability to localize a lesion precisely, to know whether a patient's numbness originates at a compressed nerve, an inflamed root, a cord segment, or a central tract, is the difference between a treatment plan that works and one that manages symptoms indefinitely. CNS-02 from the Carrick Institute's CNS Curriculum was built around that single clinical imperative.

This course delivers 25 hours of post-graduate functional neurology education covering the complete anatomy and physiology of the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord. Core content includes peripheral nerve architecture, afferent fiber classification, receptor transduction and generator potentials, brachial and lumbosacral plexus anatomy, named sensory and motor nerve territories, spinal cord ascending and descending tract organization, Rexed laminar anatomy, dorsal horn pain physiology including central sensitization and wide dynamic range neuron wind-up, corticospinal and reticulospinal pathway function, and the neuromuscular junction. The course applies these systems directly to clinical localization, entrapment neuropathy identification, spinal cord syndrome recognition, electrodiagnostic interpretation, and receptor-matched rehabilitation prescription.

CNS-02 is designed for licensed healthcare clinicians who already bring clinical experience to the table and are ready to build on it with the neurological precision that complex cases demand. Chiropractors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other clinicians seeking advanced CE credit in functional and clinical neuroscience will find the course immediately applicable to the patients they see each week, including those with radiculopathy, myelopathy, peripheral neuropathy, chronic pain, entrapment syndromes, and post-injury sensorimotor deficits.

The course is presented by Dr. Ryan Harvey, DC, DACNB, and was created by Dr. Matthew Antonucci, DC, DACNB, FACFN, FABCDD, FABVR, FABNN, FICC, one of the most credentialed functional neurologists in post-graduate clinical education. The curriculum has been reviewed and approved by the Carrick Institute Curriculum Review Committee, reflecting the institution's commitment to academically rigorous, clinically relevant neuroscience training at the highest level of post-graduate CE.