Dallas, TX – January 24 & 25, 2026
Acupuncture CE credits (12 Hours)
TBCE Hours (4)
Course Outline
Saturday – 8:00 am to 12:00 pm
TBCE Hours – 4 Hours
Ethics / Record Keeping / Documentation & Coding / Risk Management
Saturday – 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Battlefield Acupuncture
Sunday – 8:00 am to 12:00 pm / 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Treatment Protocols in the Chiropractic Practice – 8 Hours
Battlefield Acupuncture
Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA) is an Auricular Therapy technique (Ear acupuncture) which is utilized on the battlefield where standard western medical protocols cannot be effectively utilized. It is an effective technique for the reduction of pain.
An article in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: March 2018 states: “Chronic pain is a serious problem for combat veterans and soldiers. In a sample of 2597 soldiers who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, 44% reported pain lasting for more than 3 months, half of whom reported pain for 1 year or more. Besides obvious questions regarding the mechanisms of action, the comparative efficacy, and duration of effects, the Department of Defense and Veterans Health System embrace of BFA presents an opportunity to study the adaption and implementation of this most fascinating complementary technique into traditional western practice. If the promise of BFA holds true, it will add an important treatment option in physiatrists’ arsenal to treat acute and chronic pain.”
This unique treatment also utilized a very special auricular needle called the ASP Needle. This needle is currently being used to treat verterns in most VA hospitals for all types of Auricular acupuncture. 
Battlefield Acupuncture is a technique that originally and still utilizes 5 specific Auricular points. It is not just using those 5 Auricular points randomly. There is specific particular pattern, specific point order and specific point combinations, for the treatment for the reduction of pain. The treatment process includes protocols which enhances the application of the Auricular points.
Dr. Hanson has enhanced the treatment protocols with other brain enhancing protocols which strengthens the effects of the overall treatment.
This technique can be a valuable tool to reduce pain in your patients and let you treat them more effectively.
Treatment Protocols in the Chiropractic Practice
Course Description
This presentation will provide an in depth look at how pain affects the human body. Correlation of Western medicine neurology and the aspect of pain in comparison to the Chinese medicine viewpoint of what actually causes pain. Different acupuncture needling techniques will be shown to treat pain related to headache, all spinal related conditions as well as upper and lower extremity conditions. Needling techniques will be taught which include a review of the normal local acupuncture point commonly utilized. Detailed techniques in Distal needling, Balance Method, Auricular and various Master Tung points for the related areas of the body being treated.
Demonstration of procedures and administration of utilizing the different treatment techniques will be performed. Acupuncture needle / Ear Seeds / Auricular tack / ASP Needles
TBCE Mandatory Hours – 4 Hours / 12 Acupuncture Hours – 16 Total Hours
(Acupuncture CE Hours are also used as Chiropractic CE Hours for Texas & other States)
Seminar Times – Saturday: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm / Sunday: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Continuing Education for Texas & Pace States by the Texas Chiropractic Association (TCA)
TX APPROVAL: AT07-16540 / Pace Course ID: BA1223 (Pending)
“Choose your seminar package below – With or without CE Credit Hours.”
CE Credit Notice
Texas & Pace States License Renewal Credit
States that accept PACE without “Pre-Check” or additional application to the State regulatory board.
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Mandatory Hands-On Participation Policy
Eastern Medicine Institute’s acupuncture and dry needling seminars require active, hands-on laboratory participation as an essential component of the course. As a condition of enrollment, attendance, and successful completion, each participant is required to both perform needling and receive needling in the anatomical regions designated by the instructor as necessary to satisfy the educational objectives and practical competency requirements of the course.
Participants must therefore be willing and able to participate fully in all required laboratory activities. Personal, religious, cultural, or other objections to performing or receiving needling do not automatically exempt a participant from required hands-on instruction or competency assessment. Any participant who believes that a medical condition, disability, religious belief, or other legally protected circumstance may affect participation must notify Eastern Medicine Institute before enrollment or prior to the start of the course so that any legally required reasonable accommodation can be evaluated. An accommodation will not be provided when it would eliminate or fundamentally alter an essential educational or competency requirement of the course.
A participant who does not complete the required hands-on components of the course may be ineligible to complete the course or receive a certificate of completion.
CANCELLATION POLICY — Live Seminar
Cancellations must be received at least five (5) business days before the scheduled live seminar to be eligible for a refund, less a $50 administrative fee.
Cancellations received fewer than five (5) business days before the live seminar are nonrefundable. At the sole discretion of Eastern Medicine Institute, the registration fee may be applied as a credit toward another eligible Eastern Medicine Institute course. Any credit granted must be used within 365 days of the originally scheduled seminar date, after which the credit will expire and have no remaining value.
All cancellation or credit requests must be submitted in writing. Failure to attend a scheduled seminar without providing written notice (“no-show”) is not eligible for a refund or credit.
Registration fees are nonrefundable once the live seminar has begun.
Eastern Medicine Institute reserves the right to cancel or reschedule a seminar. If Eastern Medicine Institute cancels a seminar and does not offer an acceptable rescheduled date, registered participants will receive a full refund of the seminar registration fee.
Right to Refuse Enrollment or Participation
Eastern Medicine Institute reserves the right to deny enrollment, refuse participation, or dismiss any individual from its acupuncture and/or dry needling seminars when the individual is unwilling or unable to comply with the established educational requirements, mandatory hands-on laboratory participation, safety protocols, or professional standards of the course. These requirements include both performing and receiving needling in designated anatomical regions when necessary to achieve the course’s educational objectives. All enrollment and participation decisions will be made on a consistent, nondiscriminatory basis, with consideration of reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.
