Matt Callison

Matt Callison, CA licensed in 1992 and a member of the faculty of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, is the creator of the Treatment of Orthopedic Disorders classes, which are taught at all three PCOM campuses. He was the first to start an acupuncture externship for acupuncture interns in a university sports medicine setting. This model of treating university athletes at UC San Diego with sports acupuncture began 14 years ago and continues today. Callison is the author of the Motor Point Index, The Motor Points and Acupuncture Meridians wall chart, and the book Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach to Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine, due out October of 2019. He is also president of the AcuSport Education and the Sports Medicine Acupuncture Certification Program, founded in 2007.

Articles by Matt Callison

Pronator Teres Motor Point and Its Multiple Functions

The pronator teres (PT) muscle is located on the ventral aspect of the forearm connecting the radius and ulna. Its length runs obliquely across the forearm and is thicker on the proximal half of the muscle and then becomes a thin, broad tendon in close proximity to its attachment point

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Diagnostic Ashi Points: A Focus on Muscle Motor Points

This article is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published textbook Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach to Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Chinese term ashi, translated as “that’s the point” or sometimes as another expletive, indicates pain upon palpation of the tissue. Ashi points were first mentioned in

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