Matt Callison's unique ability to blend Chinese medicine with sports medicine for over 27 years is demonstrated by his excellent reputation. This is particularly evident in his educational program, the "Sports Medicine Acupuncture Certification Program" (www.sportsmedicineacupuncture.com), which is attended by acupuncturists worldwide. He also has more than 20 years of experience in cadaver dissection, which has helped him to further broaden and deepen his educational program for the acupuncturist. Matt has published many articles in professional journals and is well-known for his work with professional athletes. He is also the creator of the Motor Point and Acupuncture Meridian Chart; and the author of three publications, the latest of which took him 25 years to complete: Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An integrated Approach to Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Chronic pain afflicts over 20% of the adult population. Sadly, most MDs have essentially no education in treating pain, beyond offering a few toxic medications. Then they tend to steer people with pain away from those health practitioners who are trained. This puts the acupuncture community on the front lines for addressing this epidemic.
When the body is going through a stressful event, the sympathetic system is activated. This activation will help the body with a life-threatening situation. If this state is activated for prolonged periods of time, it starts to consume energy. These traumatic events that generate stressors in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) will eventually become internalized.
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One of the things that makes acupuncture so difficult to measure is that the medicine actually does contain some esoteric aspects. There have been numerous studies that demonstrate the neurochemical reasoning behind why acupuncture points stimulate the autonomic nervous system to enact change However, not all the benefits of TCM can easily be measured by randomized, controlled trials. But does that make them fundamentally and definitively untrue?
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