Shoptalk

Shoptalk delivers one meaningful, clinically relevant theme each quarter, explored by six presenters who bring their own expertise and perspective. Each 25-minute episode is a focused, potent exchange that puts clarity—and practical tools—directly in your hands. New presentations drop every two weeks to keep the conversation unfolding, while the full back catalogue is always ready when you are. Questions lead the way and experience does the refining—an ongoing, grounded dialogue that strengthens your craft and reconnects you to why this medicine matters.


Welcome to Shoptalk Season: Sports Medicine

Sports medicine acupuncture is not just for athletes. It’s the full picture of how a body moves, performs, recovers, and stays in the game. Performance and recovery. Injury and adaptation. The four-legged athlete and the two-legged one. There are more ways into that picture than most of us have explored.

The body doesn’t lie. It compensates, adapts, tells you exactly what it needs if you know how to read it. That’s the thread running through this season — and the practitioners we’re talking to are reading it from very different angles.

A physician who needles. A veterinarian with roots in equine sports medicine who now works with canine athletes. A physical therapist who has spent twenty-five years weaving both traditions into one clinical approach. A microcurrent specialist whose work challenges everything you think you know about electro-acupuncture. A movement practitioner who brings taiji and structural integration into the treatment room. And one of the founding figures of sports medicine acupuncture in North America, still refining his craft after forty years.

Different training. Different clinical worlds. Different ways of seeing the same body.

That’s what makes this worth listening to. We don’t all have to practice the same way — but we all get better when we understand how others think. The physician’s structural precision sharpens your palpation. The veterinarian’s eye for compensatory patterns changes how you assess. The physical therapist’s framework fills in gaps you didn’t know you had.

This is how the medicine grows. Not by narrowing down, but by opening up.

Presenter lineup:

Join Whitfield Reaves, Laura Christensen, Kathy Murphy, Chi-Tsai Tang, Kim Fong, and Brian Lau as they share expert perspectives, practical guidance, and proven  strategies to help practitioners more fluently work with anatomy, recovery and performance.

 
 

New Shoptalk Conversations Publish on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of Each Month

 

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