Incorporating Microneedling into Your Practice
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of microneedling for acupuncturists. Explore how to choose effective tools, and how to create an effective Chinese medicine treatment.
Surviving Survival: The Role of Spirit in Healthy Aging
This course will describe a comprehensive plan to address the complexities of living into a robust old age with Chinese medicine. Examine treatment options with Eight Extraordinary vessels for the brain/shen, orthopedic applications/pain, organ systems, and constitution.
Simplifying Medicine: A 14th Century Theologian’s Influence on My Practice
Occam’s Razor is one of the most useful (yet misunderstood) models of problem solving in your toolbox. Basically, its perspective is “keep it simple.” Dr. Reaves will illustrate the use of this principle as it can be applied in musculoskeletal cases, making diagnosis and treatment more confident and effective.
Healing the Jade Organs: Sexual Experience and Dysfunction
In this class, Felice will share, in a language your patients will understand, facts about sexual anatomy and physiology that can make a substantial difference in the ways your patients feel about themselves and their intimate lives.
Current Research on Acupuncture Therapy for Acute Pain
Arya Nielsen, PhD, is well known for her work as a researcher, teacher and writer on the subject of acupuncture instead of opioids. She was in large part responsible for the shift in requirements for hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission to consider and recommend non-pharmacological options for pain. Dr. Nielsen reviews the most recent evidence regarding treatment for acute pain.
Acupuncture Therapy for Acute Pain: Inpatient and Emergency Department Settings
Most acupuncturists are not aware of the research done in hospitals and emergency departments. Dr. Nielsen, who is published on acupuncture for acute pain and consults on research projects related to acupuncture for acute pain in the emergency department, will share her experience and provide a map for understanding and communicating about acupuncture for acute pain.
Three Illusive Conditions in the Clinic: Scapular Neck Pain, Deltoid Shoulder Pain, and Medial Knee Pain
Join Whitfield Reaves, who will drawn upon his over forty years of experience in this field, to share insight into how to treat three common conditions. Discover how to diagnose and treat rhomboid minor and levator scapulae dysfunction causing scapular neck pain, supraspinatous and infraspinatous dysfunction causing deltoid area pain, and the medial joint space of the knee and the pes anserine causing medial knee pain.
From Good to Great: Elevating Your Acupuncture Practice with Safety, Communication, and Industry Knowledge
Hear from American Acupuncture Council experts on protecting yourself and your practice from liability in a panel discussion regarding safety issues, communications, and new developments in the profession that can change the way you practice.
Gua Sha Practicum
This hands-on workshop with Arya Nielsen, PhD, author of Gua Sha: A Traditional Technique for Modern Practice, which can serve as the practicum portion required to complete Dr. Nielsen’s Gua Sha Certification Course, will include supervised practice. Students may participate without being enrolled in the certification program, but it is recommended that they also complete the online modules for a comprehensive understanding of the application of gua sha in clinical practice.
Treating the Triad of the Low Back: the Gluteus Medius, Quadratus Lumborum, and SI Joint
This lecture on the treatment of the low back and hip should offer all acupuncturists some perspectives and techniques for treating lumbo-sacral pain for more effective and long-lasting results.
