With Instructor Anthony Von der Muhll, L.Ac., DAOM, DNBAO, FAIPM

Does your clinical toolbox contain the essential modalities and techniques for treating orthopedic pain and disability? This class will help you round out your knowledge and sharpen your skill set!

Review indications, contraindications, cautions, safety considerations, best uses and limitations, and ways to develop the knowledge and skills needed for safe and effective applications of:

• Electroacupuncture
• Myofascial trigger and motor point needling
• Joint stabilization/mobilization and ligamentous prolo-acupuncture
• Neural acupuncture
• 7-star, lancet and 3-edged needling
• Optimizing classical distant, ear and scalp needling for orthopedics
• Myofascial gua sha
• Orthopedic cupping
• Therapeutic exercise

Take home practical strategies for matching techniques and modalities to patients’ injuries, needs, goals and tolerance, and for sequencing and combining them for efficiency, comfort and efficacy.

This introductory class prepares students to get the most out of the 4-part Jing-Jin series and the 5-part Spine & Extremities series.

With Instructor Anthony Von der Muhll, L.Ac., DAOM, DNBAO, FAIPM

The classical 经 筋 jing-jin ("sinew meridians") of Chinese medicine describe tracts of myofascial tissues that roughly follow the jing-luo ("primary meridians").

Understanding the jing-jin can guide clinicians from where pain is felt, to distal and proximal locations that also may need treatment. Knowing the muscles, tendons, joints and ligaments of each jing-jin, and how to examine and treat them is a valuable complement to the cross-sectional approach of contemporary orthopedics, and opens up avenues towards holistic rehabilitation from injuries, pain and disability, including:

• Decreased muscle-tendon pain and tension, and improved strength and function
• Decreased joint pain, and increased flexibility and range-of-motion
• Improved posture, movement, and whole-body biomechanics

This introductory class prepares students to get the most out of the 4-part Jing-Jin series by reviewing the general structure and functions of the jing-jin, as well as classical and modern examination and treatment techniques, including:

• Comparison of ancient descriptions of the jing-jin with contemporary dissection studies and functional analyses of myofascial tracts and kinematic chains
• Clinical significance of postural vs. phasic muscles and balance between agonist/antagonist muscle groups
• Clinical assessment of the movement, strength, and joint stabilization functions of jing-jin muscles and joints
• Introduction to anatomical charts of myofascial referred pain patterns, including muscle attachment sites and functions, innervation, and trigger, motor and Chinese new/miscellaneous points. (The full series covers over 100 muscles and connective tissue structures.)

Treatment of jing-jin injuries and pain with traditional and modern acupuncture and other AOM therapies.

• Classical needling of the jing-jin, including “crack needling,” “short puncture,” “superficial puncture,” hegu puncture, and shu-point/periosteal puncture
• Myofascial trigger point and joint stabilization/mobilization ("prolo-acupuncture") needling
• Cupping, gua sha, and other manual therapies