The Pelvic Acu

Pelvic Care for Acupuncturists - Continuing Education CEU / PDA for Acupuncturists NCCAOM, ABORM, CA + FL Approved

08/28/2026

Did you know horseback riding can be therapeutic for the pelvic floor?

A twelve week hippotherapy protocol, one thirty minute session a week, pairing basic horsemanship with pelvic floor exercise, increased resting pelvic floor tension and active contraction strength in women with stress incontinence.

Movement matters. Even the kind that does not feel like exercise at all.

08/27/2026

94,000 women. One BMJ review. A pattern too consistent to set aside.

Latthe and colleagues pooled 122 studies and found sexual abuse, childhood abuse, anxiety, and depression named again and again as predictors of chronic pelvic pain, across dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and non cyclical pain alike.

If you treat pelvic patients, you are treating trauma. Not occasionally. Consistently.

Here is what most of us were not taught. Point selection gets covered in school. Room craft does not.

How to set expectations before the table. How to leave while she undresses. How to approach her face before her pelvis. How to narrate every step so her nervous system never has to guess what happens next. How to wait a session or two before you touch the pelvis at all, letting the body meet you in the easier places first.

The needles are the tool. Safety is the medicine that lets the tool work.

Save this for your next pelvic intake. Comment BLOG for the full blog.

Source: Latthe, P., Mignini, L., Gray, R., Hills, R., & Khan, K. (2006). Factors predisposing women to chronic pelvic pain: Systematic review. BMJ, 332(7544), 749755.

08/26/2026

Dolly Parton has died at eighty.

A songwriter, a builder, a woman who put free books into the hands of millions of children and never lost her warmth doing it. And underneath the rhinestones, a body that collapsed on stage in 1984 from internal bleeding she had pushed through in silence.

Endometriosis. A partial hysterectomy within the year. A dark time after that she did not pretty up when she wrote about it.

She did not have to say a word. Silence would have cost her nothing.

She said it anyway.

I think about that every time a client finally names what she has been calling cramps, or female problems, or just how her body is, for years. That permission is the medicine underneath the needle.

Dolly gave a generation of women that permission before most doctors did. We get to keep giving it.

Rest well, Dolly. Thank you for the truth you told when you didn’t have to.

08/25/2026

This has been the year of full rooms.

California. Colorado. Virginia. Already behind us, already full. Now the fall calendar is closed too. Seattle. Montreal, twice. Florida. Every seat, claimed.

I want to sit in that for a second because it is not a flex, it is a signal. It means acupuncturists all over the country and into Canada decided the pelvic floor is not something they refer out anymore.

We close out the season in Hallandale Beach. Nine acupuncturists, two days, hosted by Andrea Hirshorn, who went through the Advanced Certificate herself and is now opening her doors to host her second Pelvic Acu Practical. A graduate building the room for the next acu behind her. That is the whole model.

2026 is full. 2027 dates are coming and I do not want you finding out after the room is already gone again.

Comment PRACTICAL and see which have already dropped!

08/24/2026

Know your worth. Wealth building. Own your practice. Three live sessions, ninety seven dollars, and not one ounce of fluff.

I built this series for the acu who is tired of being brilliant in the treatment room and small everywhere else. The one who can talk zang fu and blood stasis all day and goes quiet the second a client asks what she charges.

You already know if you’re the acu who needs this. Comment SUMMER and we will get you the details!

08/23/2026

Acupuncture and antidepressants do not touch the same brain circuitry. New neuroimaging research pooled 7 RCTs and 357 people with major depressive disorder and mapped exactly where each intervention changed activity. Acupuncture hit two right sided regions, the anterior cingulate and a cluster peaking in Brodmann area 25, the subgenual cingulate, the same region targeted by deep brain stimulation in treatment resistant depression. Conventional treatment hit two left sided regions instead, hippocampus and occipital cortex. The laterality split is consistent across the whole dataset, not a fluke of one trial. There was also a dose response curve, more acupuncture sessions, more change in the amygdala.

Here is the part worth sitting with. Only 2 of the 7 trials had a real sham control, and the acupuncture group in this analysis also included taVNS, which is not a needle intervention. This is a mechanism map, not a head to head efficacy trial. Worth knowing exactly what it does and does not prove before you bring it into a treatment room conversation.

Save this one. It is the kind of detail that makes a skeptical referring provider lean in instead of check out.

Zhang et al, Medicine, 2026

08/22/2026

A peek into The Pelvic Acu.

Hands finding the point together. A room of acupuncturists leaning in close enough to see the angle, the depth, the exact moment the needle meets the ashi point.

This is the work.

Be the acu who knows how.

08/21/2026

One in three. That is how many women meet criteria for anxiety, depression, or significant stress within six weeks of a miscarriage, according to a 2025 meta-analysis of over 35,000 women.

The physical side of miscarriage gets a follow up appointment. The emotional side almost never does. By the time she is back in your treatment room, she has usually already been told she is fine.

Shen disturbance with Kidney and Blood depletion is a pattern that explains what the chart cannot. You may be the only provider still asking how she really is.

Save this for the next patient whose paperwork says recovered.

Source: Shetty et al., Journal of Global Health, 2025.

08/19/2026

Water doesn’t ask permission to move. It finds the path, the crack, the way through. That’s qi. That’s blood. That’s what’s supposed to be happening in the pelvis every single day.

When it stops moving, it doesn’t just sit there quietly. It pools. It stagnates. Fixed pain, dark clotted blood, a body that feels tight in a way that doesn’t make sense on the table. Blood stasis isn’t a diagnosis we throw around loosely. It’s what happens when the water stops running.

Our job as acupuncturists isn’t just to treat the muscle. It’s to get the water moving again.

What does stagnation look like in your treatment room this week?

08/18/2026

Eight seats. One room in Hallandale Beach. The last Pelvic Care Practical of the year.

I built this practical the way I wanted every training in this field to feel.

Hands on the muscle, hands on the point, hands on the work itself. Every acupuncturist in that room learns the concomitant structures and the pelvic floor itself, TCM pattern by TCM pattern, spirit of the point by spirit of the point, with me right there for every question.

November 7 and 8. SOFLA Acupuncture and Wellness. Eight acupuncturists who are done referring it out and ready to close the gap.

If you have been circling this decision, this is the room.

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