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Manual Muscle Testing & Acupuncture
An Injury-Based Approach
A 62-video acupuncture treatment library from sports medicine expert Matt Callison synthesizing his 33 years of clinical experience in blending TCM with a sports medicine injury-based approach to restore strength, improve movement quality, and reduce pain.
Manual Muscle Testing & Acupuncture: An Injury-Based Approach is a 62-video collection from Matt Callison’s 33 years of clinical experience.
This video library presents clinical information through the lens of injury-based sports medicine, posture, traditional Chinese medicine channels and effective acupuncture treatment protocols.
This Manual Muscle Testing & Acupuncture video library is divided into three courses:
- Course 1: Introduction and Guidelines to Manual Muscle Testing
- Course 2: The Neck, Shoulder and Upper Extremities
- Course 3: The Low Back, Hip and Lower Extremities
The acupuncture prescriptions in this video library can create meaningful changes in strength, movement, proprioception, muscle firing, and pain.
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An Acupuncturist’s Approach to Muscle Testing
This library goes far beyond basic strength testing. You will learn:
- Manual muscle testing techniques
- Orthopedic muscle resistive testing
- Muscle firing sequence assessments
- Injury-specific differential testing
- Acupuncture: effective motor point and channel point combinations to change muscle strength and proprioception
- Clinical applications of traditional Chinese medicine channels
These techniques help you identify the muscles and structures contributing to pain, dysfunction, and injury—and then evaluate the effects of treatment immediately.
- Manual muscle testing techniques
- Orthopedic muscle resistive testing
- Muscle firing sequence assessments
- Injury-specific differential testing
- Acupuncture: effective motor point and channel point combinations to change muscle strength and proprioception
- Clinical applications of traditional Chinese medicine channels
These techniques help you identify the muscles and structures contributing to pain, dysfunction, and injury—and then evaluate the effects of treatment immediately.
Learn how to clinically differentiate conditions such as:
- Supraspinatus tendinopathy versus bicipital tenosynovitis
- De Quervain’s syndrome
- Medial and lateral elbow pain
- Low back pain involving specific muscle firing patterns
- Anterior hip pain
- Medial knee pain
- …and many other common musculoskeletal conditions!
These relationships are explored through clinical assessment, acupuncture treatment, and re-assessment. You will also see clinical examples demonstrating how treatment in one area of the body can influence muscles, tissues, and symptoms in another.
- Supraspinatus tendinopathy versus bicipital tenosynovitis
- De Quervain’s syndrome
- Medial and lateral elbow pain
- Low back pain involving specific muscle firing patterns
- Anterior hip pain
- Medial knee pain
- …and many other common musculoskeletal conditions!
These relationships are explored through clinical assessment, acupuncture treatment, and re-assessment. You will also see clinical examples demonstrating how treatment in one area of the body can influence muscles, tissues, and symptoms in another.
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Strategic Motor Points for Systemic Relief
In these videos, you will explore how:
- The peroneus longus motor point can reduce sacroiliac joint pain.
- The piriformis motor point can relax tissue surrounding UB 10, supporting the treatment of cervicogenic headaches.
- The flexor carpi ulnaris motor point can soften the levator scapulae and decrease pain especially at the distal levator scapula attachment.
- Rectus abdominis motor points can strengthen the sternocleidomastoid muscles.
About the Creator
Matt Callison, L.Ac.
This course is the culmination of more than 33 years of clinical experience working with sports injuries, musculoskeletal dysfunction, posture, manual muscle testing, orthopedic assessment, traditional Chinese medicine channels, and acupuncture treatment.
Matt Callison’s groundbreaking work in which he developed and popularized using acupuncture with manual muscle testing as an important assessment tool in the sports acupuncture field. In addition, he established the clinical value of using muscle testing and acupuncture together as both diagnostic and treatment tools.
