The Pelvic Acu

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

06/18/2026

It’s time to stop playing small Acu Besties! 👯

1 in 5 women will have surgery for prolapse. Most of them will have seen an acupuncturist somewhere in the years before ...
06/18/2026

1 in 5 women will have surgery for prolapse. Most of them will have seen an acupuncturist somewhere in the years before that OR. And most of those acupuncturists will have said nothing about it.

Not because they lacked scope. Because nobody taught them.

Pelvic organ prolapse is a structural failure of the levator ani complex and pelvic fascia, driven by Spleen Qi sinking in TCM terms and sacral neuromodulation failure in biomedical terms. Both frameworks point to the same intervention.

A 2021 ultrasound study documented measurable changes in bladder neck descent and levator ani muscle area after acupuncture treatment compared to control. The EAPOP trial is actively testing EA at BL33, BL35, and SP6 for Stage II to III prolapse against sham over 12 weeks.

The profession is sitting on a gap that is causing surgery. Swipe for the full pattern breakdown and point selection.

06/17/2026

There is something acupuncture school never covered.

The money. The pricing. The systems that hold a practice together when you are the only one keeping it running.

Nobody sat us down and told us what to charge. Nobody explained that the number we chose in year one would shape everything. Nobody handed us a Roth IRA and said, this is what your future needs from you right now.

I figured it out the hard way. And I want better for you.

So this summer I built something I genuinely wish had existed when I was starting out.

The Summer Success Series is three free live sessions, three conversations that belong together, presented by The Pelvic Acu for licensed acupuncturists who are ready to build a practice that actually works.

Overactive bladder, postmenopausal women. About 2 fewer voids a day, with needles only. This RCT tested thread embedding...
06/16/2026

Overactive bladder, postmenopausal women. About 2 fewer voids a day, with needles only.

This RCT tested thread embedding acupuncture against standard needling. The control arm was manual acupuncture at CV3, BL33, BL35. Both groups dropped about 2 voids per 24 hours and 4 points on the OABSS. Both held at 2 months. No significant difference.

The “plain needling” arm worked just as well. That is not a null result. That is acupuncture doing exactly what we say it does, in a double blind, registered trial with validated tools.

If you treat postmenopausal women, you treat OAB. Full breakdown and caveats on the blog.

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Choi & Park. Int J Womens Health. 2026.

06/15/2026

Here we are working with the sacral bone holes needling using e-stim. Check out these TWITCHES! 😍

We are helping this client relieve back, SI joint and pelvic pain.

A month ago she was in a room in Virginia, learning to needle structures she had spent her whole career referring out.Tw...
06/15/2026

A month ago she was in a room in Virginia, learning to needle structures she had spent her whole career referring out.

Two weeks later. 15 women.

That is what Jessica told us after the practical. 15 clients in her clinic for their pelvic health, and in her words, the confidence that class gave me has transformed my clinic.

She came in wondering the thing so many acupuncturists wonder. Will I actually use this once I get home.

She used it 15 times in two weeks.

This is the gap closing in real time. A practitioner with the skill, and 15 women who get to be seen, heard and helped right where they already are.

Be the acu who knows how.

Curious what your own first two weeks could look like? Let’s chat!

06/14/2026

This is the kind clinical pearls you can expect within the Pelvic Care practical. Dr. Krystal has over 20 years of knowledge and wisdom to share with you.

We are on a mission to close the gap in pelvic care and we want you to be the next Acu to help pave the way.

I was a guest on Her Voice Shines this week, and the conversation went straight to the thing I have spent nineteen years...
06/12/2026

I was a guest on Her Voice Shines this week, and the conversation went straight to the thing I have spent nineteen years on.

The gap nobody was naming.

When I opened my practice, clients came in for sports injuries and came back for something else entirely. Pelvic pain. Pelvic floor dysfunction. Pain with s*x. Topics almost nobody was discussing, that most people did not even have the words for.

I could have kept treating what was easy to name and sent the rest elsewhere.

I stepped into the gap instead.

Short term relief was never the goal. Long term healing was. And eventually I started teaching other acupuncturists, because one treatment room is not enough rooms.

Sitting down with Chenadra Washington on Her Voice Shines was a chance to say all of it out loud, to an audience that gets why it matters.

Grateful to Chenadra and her team for the invitation, and for the space to talk about work this close to my heart.

If you have ever had a client mention something in passing that turned out to be the whole reason she came in, you already know this gap.

Tell me what you are seeing.

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Seattle, we’re coming back to you.There’s a specific kind of joy that lives in a room where acupuncturists are leaning o...
06/11/2026

Seattle, we’re coming back to you.

There’s a specific kind of joy that lives in a room where acupuncturists are leaning over a table together, hands on hands, feeling the pelvic floor and the tissues around it for the very first time. The breath that catches when they finally find the structure they’ve been treating around for years. The way the room goes quiet, then loud, then quiet again.

That’s what these two days are.

The Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine gives us a space that holds it. Room to demonstrate. Room to practice. Room for every acupuncturist there to be seen, to ask the question they’ve been holding, to put their hands on the work instead of just hearing about it.

Twelve to sixteen of us. Two days. Hands on, all of it.

The photos here are from our last SEATTLE practical. This is what closing the gap looks like in a room full of people brave enough to do the work.

If you’ve been feeling the pelvic gap in your own practice, this is your room. Come find out what wants to move.

September 12 + 13. Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (SIEAM)

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Every city on this list started the same way.An acupuncturist sitting across from a client who finally named the thing s...
06/10/2026

Every city on this list started the same way.

An acupuncturist sitting across from a client who finally named the thing she had no language for. The leakage. The pain with s*x. The ache she carried for years while provider after provider called it part of being a woman.

You are already the first to catch it. You can be the one who treats it too.

Twelve to fourteen acupuncturists. Two days. Hands on the work, the whole being, not just the muscle.

This is the rest of 2026, five practicals kept small on purpose.

Be the acu who knows how.

Link in bio to register, or book a discovery call and let’s find out if this is your year.

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