Lecture 1: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 1 Part 1: Overlaps of prehistoric, ancient Egyptian, TCM, and Mayan healing traditions

Lecture 1 Part 2: Overlaps of modern healing traditions (myofascial pain, myofascial meridians) with ancient traditions

Lecture 1 Part 3: Clinical evidence supporting MCO Technique, applicable to needling and manual therapies

Lecture 2: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 2 Part 1: Evidence-based trigger point definition and diagnostic criteria

Lecture 2 Part 2: Travell and Simons’ “most common” mTrPs versus other mTrPs

Lecture 2 Part 3: The vex of the “X”’s of Travell and Simons

Lecture 3: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 3 Part 1: Eastern + Western terminology for acupuncture points and important considerations in acupoint localization

Lecture 3 Part 2: What is a “Classical” acupuncture point versus other acupoints?

Lecture 4: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 4 Part 1: Discuss difference between pain and tenderness, and the historical evidence that clinically involved acupoints are tender

Lecture 4 Part 2: Review acupuncture reference text documentation that clinically involved acupoints are tender

Lecture 4 Part 3: Discuss basic and clinical research evidence that show clinically involved acupoints are tender, due to neurogenic inflammation and central sensitization

Lecture 5: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 5 Part 1: Review the concepts of the “most common” mTrPs

Lecture 5 Part 2: Review the concept of the Classical acupoints

Lecture 5 Part 3: Discuss the anatomic location similarities of these point, in regard to muscles and muscle regions

Lecture 6: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 6 Part 1: Review the anatomic similarities of the “most common” mTrPs and Classical acupoints, and the pain indication similarities of anatomically corresponding Classical acupuncture and “most common” trigger point pairs

Lecture 6 Part 2: Discuss the non-pain indication similarities of anatomically corresponding Classical acupoints and “most common” mTrPs and implications of these pain and non-pain indication clinical overlaps for understanding Classical acupoints and the

Lecture 7: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 7 Part 1: Discuss anatomic and clinical overlap of “most common” mTrPs and Classical acupoints, and how referred-pain patterns and the Primary Channels were discovered

Lecture 7 Part 2: Demonstrate referred-pain to Channel overlaps of corresponding mTrP-acupuncture point pairs, how the referred-pains serve to validate the Primary Channels, and implications of these findings

Lecture 8: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 8 Part 1: Review the Primary Channels, discuss the concept of myofascial meridians, and the anatomic evidence for the myofascial meridians

Lecture 8 Part 2: Demonstrate the similarities of myofascial meridian and Primary Channel distributions, and the implication of those findings

Lecture 9: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 9 Part 1: Review the concepts of acupuncture and myofascial meridians, and their relationships to the acupuncture Muscle channels

Lecture 9 Part 2: Discuss muscle chains’ history and their relationship to the myofascial meridians

Lecture 9 Part 3: Review the concept of sports “kinetic chains” and the distributions of kinetic and muscle chains to myofascial and acupuncture meridians and implications thereof

Lecture 10: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 10 Part 1: Review the fundamental distribution similarities of myofascial meridians, acupuncture meridians, and myofascial referred-pain patterns, and the likely (neural) uniting mechanism of these traditions, as evidenced by basic science evidenc

Lecture 10 Part 2: Review clinical evidence that supports this common mechanism and 3d anatomic data that corroborates this uniting neural mechanism