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Enhancing Sports Medicine with Traditional Chinese Medicine ACUSPORT EDUCATION NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 76 | NOVEMBER 2024
With Thanksgiving approaching us here in the U.S., we again embrace this opportunity to reflect on how we’ve continued to evolve and grow as a company, a profession and most importantly as a community vested in helping our patients live their best lives! We are beyond grateful to our community of students and teachers who have
supported us over the past 16 years, helping us to further our profession. Our deepest thanks to you all! That being said, we have so many new announcements for you this month! LIVE,
IN-PERSON FOUNDATIONAL CLASSES THIS FALL JUST A FEW WEEKS AWAY IN CANADA... ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT OF LOW BACK & HIP 📍 West Coast College of Massage Therapy, New Westminster, BC 🗓️ November 23-24, 2024 🎓 NCCAOM 14 CE LEARN MORE & REGISTER SOON! TRIGGER POINT NEEDLING FOR THE HEAD, NECK & SHOULDER We’re also excited to announce that Trigger Point Needline for the Head, Neck & Shoulder has been rescheduled to January 11-12, 2025! Due to the recent hurricanes, we had to postpone this class, but it has been rescheduled and REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Our 3 DAY CADAVER LAB FOR THE ACUPUNCTURIST
(3DC) on March 14-16, 2025 opened for registration last month and we sold out within the week! As always, please register for the waitlist if you are interested as things do shift quite a bit. Use the discount code WAITLIST at registration to save your spot. As soon as a seat becomes available, we’ll email you to see if you can still make it! LEARN MORE AND REGISTER FOR THE WAITLIST SOON! SMAC PROGRAM NEWS
We are also super excited to announce the 2025-2026 SMAC Program is now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION! Our new program will again be offered in San Diego, CA, but our East Coast program will now be offered at the Virginia University of Integrative Medicine in Vienna, VA, just a short drive from Dulles International Airport!
LEARN MORE & REGISTER SOON! We would also like to announce that this will be Matt Callison’s last SMAC Program as head instructor. The SMAC program will continue with other expertly qualified instructors, who are both master practitioners and gifted educators of Sports Medicine Acupuncture. And, as always, we will continue to provide the highest level of training in our field and Matt will continue to direct all programming along with teaching advanced intensive in-person classes. If you’ve been
thinking about starting the program, now is the time to start! For more information, read our November blog.
SMAC PROGRAM MODULE IV is only a few months away! Coming up this December, we start our last module of the 23-25 SMAC Program, Module IV: the
Neck, Shoulder and Upper Extremity. The Assessment & Treatment of Injury class will be offered in NJ from December 4-8 and January 8-12, 2025 in CA! If you are taking the certification track or looking to take the whole module, this is a great time to start on your Module IV online classes! Keep in mind... - You have two entire program years to complete all required classes if you are pursuing the certification track AND you do not need to start with any particular module or take modules in order.
- Participants also have the option to matriculate in SMAC Program classes at any time and to take individual courses either in-person or online.
- The four required live, in-person only
classes are now being offered on both coasts—in San Diego, CA and in Bloomfield, NJ for the 2023-2025 Program and San Diego, CA and Vienna, VA for the 2025-2026 Program!
- All live, in-person and recorded courses are NCCAOM and CAB CEU/PDA approved!
Learn more about the SMAC HYBRID Program: 10 recorded webinars and 4 live, in-person only Assessment & Treatment of Injury classes SMAC Program helpful links: As always, if you have any questions, please reach us at acusportinfo@gmail.com.
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1. SMA TEXTBOOK — eBook & Hardcover Available The Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine textbook by Matt Callison is now also available as an eBook through Eastland Press! And,
the long-awaited return of the hardcover has come! It's now back in stock and available for purchase!
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“An impressive and very thorough book destined to be a great reference guide for the clinic.” — Tom Bisio “Every practitioner of acupuncture at every level will gain further insight and knowledge from this book.” —
Peter Deadman A brief statement from a user of the book: “Your book really helped me take that next step - I have used other books and protocols but your organization and explanations are superior - the integration of different ages and scenarios and then the points to
match. . . great work and skill, thank you . . and my patients thank you too, many successful outcomes with your guidance- I have been in practice 16 years with loyal following and have been using your book to help several unresolved problems that my “tool” bag could not help! Thanks again!” — Ali Racheotes NOTE: The book is
available in Canada, Europe, Australia and the UK. To purchase it from one of these locations, please do so through the appropriate links found on the webpage. |
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2. NEW & UPDATED Motor Points & Acupuncture Meridians Wall Chart is HERE!
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"Special shout out to Sports Medicine Acupuncture for this brilliant and extremely durable Motor Points and Acupuncture Meridians poster! Patient education is a big deal at my practice. I also appreciate a good 'cheat sheet.' Very informative and well done!” Dr. Samantha Hodges, DAOM, L.Ac., CMT at Personal Best Acupuncture in Marin. Have you gotten one yet??? "This chart is amazing! My clients love looking at it and chatting about where they’re feeling pain." Tiffany Schaal from Breathe Easy Wellness. This beautiful, full-color laminated 27x32 wall chart is an update from the original chart that was published in 2000. The NEW chart has nine new muscle motor points and six modified motor point locations. Not only can it be used for practitioner reference, but also patient education. The chart comes ready to hang with two durable eyelets and thick
lamination for durability and provides the practitioner with: - Superficial and deep views of detailed muscle anatomy
- Anterior and posterior views of the body
- Over 110 motor point locations
- Easy to read, color-coded acupuncture points and meridians
- Muscle names and
innervating spinal segment
- Instructive needle technique diagrams specifically for motor points
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3. FEATURED ARTICLE: 2025-2026 Sports Medicine Acupuncture Certification Program and BEYOND by Matthew Callison, L.Ac. We are super excited to be starting our 16th Sports Medicine Acupuncture Certification Program in CA and VA!
IMPORTANT: We would like to formally
announce that the 2025-26 SMAC Program will be Matt Callison’s last program as the main instructor.
4. SMAC PROGRAM CLASSES We have two registration pages for SMAC classes—one for live, in-person classes and another for all online and recorded
webinars. For questions and support, please visit our newly revised FAQ page.
From registration to certification questions, this is an excellent resource to get all your questions answered. As always, if you have any additional questions, please email Patricia Botet at acusportinfo@gmail.com. We’re always here to help! SMAC PROGRAM—DATES, LOCATION & PRICES Remember, you can start the program
at any time AND taking individual classes within the SMAC Program is a way to earn your CEUs without committing to the whole program or even a whole module!
5. FOUNDATIONAL CLASSES DATE & TIME: Saturday & Sunday,
November 23-24, 2024, 9am-5pm LOCATION: West Coast College of Massage Therapy, 613 Columbia St, New Westminster, BC V3M 1A7, Canada CEUs: 14 CEUs NCCAOM DATE & TIME: Saturday,January 11, 2024 8am-6pm Sunday, January 12, 2024 8am-5pm LOCATION: Dragon Rises College of
Oriental Medicine, 6815 14th St W, Bradenton, FL 34207 CEUs: 17 CEUs NCCAOM DATE & TIME: Friday-Sunday, March 14-16, 2025 8:30am-5pm LOCATION: Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine, 6815 14th St W, Bradenton, FL 34207 CEUs: 17 CEUs NCCAOM ***WAITLIST ONLY! Use the discount code WAITLIST at registration to save your spot. As soon as a seat becomes available, we’ll email you to see if you can still make it!
6. YOUTUBE CHANNEL: SPORTS MEDICINE ACUPUNCTURE We're always updating the channel with new educational videos. Check it out and subscribe to get notified when new videos
get added! SUBSCRIBE TODAY
7. ACUSPORT EDUCATION'S STRATEGIC ALLIANCES We want to make sure you know about the beneficial alliances that AcuSport Education has formed with Lhasa OMS
(acupuncture supplies & education) and Net of Knowledge (acupuncture education). This is just one of the ways we are fulfilling our goal to support our program graduates!
8. WANT TO STAY CONNECTED WITH US DURING THE MONTH? Make sure to join our Sports Acupuncture Facebook Group where we post interesting treatment strategies and the sports acupuncture community shares clinically relevant discussions that can help you improve your practice. The current SMA Google Group (for C.SMA practitioners) and SMA Facebook page remain the same. ...and join us on Instagram as well!
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