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Enhancing Sports Medicine with Traditional Chinese Medicine
ACUSPORT EDUCATION NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 22 | JANUARY 2020
Hope you all had a lovely Holiday Season and a very Happy New Years! Welcome 2020!!!
Also as a reminder, registration is now open for first round of Foundational Classes this 2020 Winter term! We’re offering one of our core fundamental classes, Common Injuries to the Low Back and Hip, in Calgary. In this class, we view the low back and hip complex as one unit and teach how to assess, diagnose and treat imbalance of the musculature acting on the hip and low back. In addition to advanced
needle techniques, we will also cover proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitated stretching and myofascial release to help enhance the treatment outcomes. Class space is limited, so please register as soon as possible to reserve your seat!
Registration is also open for our brand new class, Nerve Entrapment Syndromes: Neck and Arm Pain (Jingbu Shoubi Tong) in Oakland, CA at ACCHS. This class is about improving your
treatment outcomes by learning how to clearly identify and treat the source of your patient’s neck and upper extremity pain by using postural assessment, orthopedic examinations and manual muscle testing to identify channel imbalances.
1. The SMA Textbook is available for online purchase — and ON SALE for a limited time!
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The Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine textbook by Matt Callison is now here and available for purchase.
Current promotions are $25 off of two books—until February 29, 2020—and a 5% discount for C.SMA practitioners. Thank you all for your continued support of this textbook!
“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
NOTE: The book is available in Canada, Europe, Australia and the UK. To purchase it from one of the locations, please do so through the appropriate distributor found in the FAQ section of the website.
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2. C.SMA PRACTITIONER OF THE MONTH:
Jared Andersen, L.Ac, C.SMA
Jared Andersen presents a case study demonstrating the integration of TCM, tui na and herbal medicine with SMA principles and techniques to treat a severe sports injury!
3. FEATURED ARTICLE
DU 16 (Fengfu) and the Myodural Bridge
by Matt Callison, L.Ac.
In this blog, with an educational video, we show the anatomy of the tissues located at the traditional acupuncture point DU 16 and the physical entrance of the Du Mai internal pathway into the brain. This video contains a cadaver specimen and is from a dissection in the Sports
Medicine Acupuncture Certification program.
4. SMAC PROGRAM CLASSES—2019/20 PROGRAM REGISTRATION (East Coast)
Registration for the 2019/20 program at the Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine in Bloomfield, NJ, is now OPEN. Modules I and most of Module II and part of Module IV is already SOLD OUT! Please register ASAP to reserve your spot or to be added to the waitlist!
*Individual Foundational Courses Available*
Many discounts and payment options are available. Receive a discount when paying by check.
Remember, you can start the program at any time AND taking individual classes within the SMAC Program is a way to earn your CEU’s without committing to the whole program or even a whole module.
DISCOUNTS & COUPON CODES: Please make sure to open the tab Discounts & Coupon Codes on the registration page of each class and enter the appropriate discount code in the Coupon Code section
when registering. Coupon codes are case sensitive so please make sure to enter them exactly as they appear on the site. If a code does not work, do not submit your registration. Please email Patricia at acusportinfo@gmail.com first. Refunds and adjustments will not be made once the registration has been submitted.
5. SMA FOUNDATIONAL CLASSES
Canadian Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CITCM)
Unit 300, 1824 Crowchild Trail NW. (Two Executive Place), Calgary, AB T2M 3Y7
February 22-23, 2020
Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences (ACCHS)
1600 Broadway Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94612
6. YOUTUBE CHANNEL: SPORTS MEDICINE ACUPUNCTURE
We're always updating the channel with new educational videos. Check it out and sign up to get notified when new videos get added! SUBSCRIBE
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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 and Unified Practice. 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. We began
moderating this new group on July 1, 2019. It is closed to the public, but open to ALL Licensed Acupuncturists and Acupuncture students (proof required) and ALL members of the group can post. The page is NOT exclusive to C.SMAs, so others training in Sports Acupuncture are welcome to post, though we think that the group will reflect Sports Medicine Acupuncture, especially if C.SMAs post frequently. Below is a portion of the statement that appears on the 'About'
page.
"This group is open to licensed and registered acupuncturists. The goal of this sports acupuncture group is to build unity in the field of Sports and Orthopedic acupuncture and to promote this field within the larger acupuncture community. While the administrators of the group are the creators of Sports Medicine Acupuncture®, sports and orthopedic are welcome to post and discuss. The group is lightly moderated. Information from
all traditions of acupuncture are welcome and encouraged, as they are collectively integrated into this forum, but please keep the conversation relevant to the above stated goals."
The current SMA Google Group (for C.SMA practitioners) and SMA Facebook page remain the same.
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