Dr. Anthony Lombardi
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A community for Acupuncturists to learn and receive support about physical assessment, electro-acupuncture, motor point acupuncture, orthopedics, case studies, and much more.
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December 03, 2020
All the Benefits of Becoming a Supporter of the Community

Monthly subscriptions now available on the Dr. Anthony Lombardi Community for only $12/month!

A monthly subscription gives you access to a TON of additional content.

Here are some of the exclusive benefits of being a subscriber on this community:
• Additional video clips on needling technique, treatments, clinical tips
• Live Open Lab and Q&A sessions with Anthony twice every month, 1-1 ½ hours in length (Open Lab is on a first come first serve basis and is limited to 15 people/session)
• Live meetings for discussions on various clinical and treatment matters
• eBook on Electro-Acupuncture (Available January or February 2021)
• Other recorded content not previously released
• New webinars every month – Webinars are approximately 40 minutes in length and include access to the recorded versions. Here are the webinars Anthony has planned so far, through June 2021:
o December: Differentiating When to Use 2 Needle Technique vs. In-Line Technique

o January: A Safety Webinar on How & When to Needle the Subscapularis Motor Point

o February: How to Differentiate Leg Length Discrepancy & Its Effect on the MSK System

o March: Learning Time & Place: Needling the Obturator Muscle

o April: Unlocking The Clinical Secrets of the Platysma Muscle

o May: Learning Entry Point of Energy in the Wrist: The Unconventional Way to Improve Shoulder ROM

o June: The Clinical Importance of the Iliolumbar Ligament in Low Back Pain Patients

Supporters also get an additional 10% off webinars on Acuvids.com with code ‘locals10’.

Become a subscriber and build your clinical understanding and skills, and experience significantly better clinical results. Be on top of the latest techniques and research, as well as honing your understanding and clinical effectiveness in Orthopedics, assessment, needling, motor points, treatments of all different types of pain and dysfunction and much more.

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Cool Feature on the Locals Phone app

Thank you to @susan_beck for showing me this
Neat little feature on the Locals Phone app.

Bookmarks Help you save post and videos that you want to go back to later.

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February 14, 2026
Calling EXSTORE Grads

5 patients on needles as i make this video….

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December 29, 2025
Gut inflammation related to knee OA

Give this a read after you watch the video: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7689775/

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Perfusion vs. Blood Pressure

Hello,

Lately, I have been using relatively extensively the perfusion treatment, particularly on a patient suffering from MS. The benefits in this latter case were quite amazing, i.e., a significant improvement of energy and mobility, as well as of the general spirit. I treated this patient with almost exclusively EA perfusion treatments in the upper (T1-T5) and lower (T10-S2) segments, with weekly sessions over a period of 6-8 weeks.

This being mentioned, I also started wondering if the perfusion treatment may also offer benefits in terms of high blood pressure. Research has shown that acupuncture can reduce both the systolic BP (~ 5–10 mmHg) and the diastolic BP (~ 3–6 mmHg), as a result of (i) a reduction of the sympathetic nervous system, (ii) an increase of the parasympathetic activity, and (iii) the release of neurotransmitters such as endorphins, serotonin, and nitric oxide. An improvement of the vascular function and peripheral circulation is also evoked as a possible ...

Shoulder pain

If external rotators for the shoulder show weak in the exstore scan, how do we address this?

June Calendar of Events

Saturday June 20th
1:30pm EST - Intro to EXSTORE webinar
2:15pm EST - Live Lab - Bring your cases and questions!
Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/utpbW898RAiPmrWp5ahqww

Thursday June 25th
8:30pm EST - Intro to Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
9:00pm EST - Live Lab
Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2oGm-_ZWSryACrlJoz2K5Q

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