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| Catalog: | 10 online courses · 17 total CE hours · 1–2 hours each |
| Faculty: | Stephen Tranter, DC, FIAMA · Bill Rice, LAc, DCBCN · Heather Wright, DC, CCEP |
| Format: | On-demand online video with assessment · instant certificate |
| Pricing: | $20/hr · automatic 10% off at 6–9 hrs, 20% off at 10+ hrs · two 8-hour bundles at $160 |
| Approval: | PACE Provider #34015544 · co-sponsored by Texas Chiropractic College · acceptance varies by state and scope |
Board-approved · PACE Provider #34015544 · CE Broker auto-reporting for states served · Instant certificate
The CCEDseminars acupuncture curriculum takes a chiropractor from clean needle technique and safety foundations through applied clinical protocols — diagnostic point selection, pain-focused treatment planning, headache management — and into the conceptual framework of the discipline: its history, the yin-yang model, and the 8 principles. Every course is written for chiropractic practice: the patient in front of you, the documentation behind you, and the scope rules of your state around you.
Acupuncture sits at a distinctive intersection for DCs — a modality with its own safety canon (needle handling, contraindications, risk disclosure), its own diagnostic reasoning, and a regulatory footprint that varies more state-to-state than almost any other chiropractic CE topic. This category is built to serve all three fronts: technique you can defend, protocols you can apply, and coursework that respects where your license does — and doesn't — extend. Courses are led by practicing faculty including a licensed acupuncturist, and every completion generates an instant certificate for your renewal file.
The catalog is organized as a curriculum, not a pile of hours. Start in the lane that matches your goal — the full catalog lives on the Acupuncture category page.
The starting point — and the block every practicing DC should keep current regardless of experience. You are here: Acupuncture 201.
Acupuncture 201: Clean Needle Techniques
Acupuncture 206: Safety & Risks in Acupuncture
Applied treatment reasoning — point selection, protocols for common presentations, and pain-focused care.
202: Drain the Pain Techniques
203: Diagnostic Points for Better Outcomes
204: Efficient Protocols for Common Conditions
205: Hot Acupuncture Treatment Protocols
210: Headache Management
The framework behind the needle — the discipline's history, its diagnostic philosophy, and emerging applications.
207: History & Philosophy
208: Mental Health Applications
209: Yin/Yang & the 8 Principles
New acupuncture courses are added to these lanes as faculty release them.
• Apply clean needle technique — single-use sterile needles, clean-field setup, intake screening for chronic infections, and the documentation habits that make acupuncture defensible.
• Recognize high-risk anatomy and point selection hazards — vascular points, pneumothorax-risk zones, and the traditional 'forbidden points' of pregnancy, with the evidence behind each.
• Execute step-by-step patient safety — insertion tubes, shallow insertion, needle etiquette, sensitive-patient strategies, and vasovagal awareness.
• Build a patient-comfort treatment room and integrate non-needle stimulation options for needle-averse patients.
Stephen Tranter, DC, FIAMA — instructor of this course — leads the foundation and protocol sequence (201–204), clean needle technique through efficient treatment protocols. A Fellow of the International Academy of Medical Acupuncture and a 1982 Palmer College graduate with more than 40 years of clinical and teaching experience, Dr. Tranter is co-author of Motion Assisted Palpation and Motion Adjusting and has taught as an Assistant Professor at Parker College and postgraduate instructor at Texas Chiropractic College.
Bill Rice, LAc, DCBCN brings a credential few CE rosters can offer: a licensed acupuncturist teaching acupuncture to chiropractors, pairing the discipline's own professional standard with clinical nutrition board certification across the safety, treatment, history, and mental-health coursework (205–208).
Heather Wright, DC, CCEP teaches the conceptual and applied capstones (209–210) — the 8-principles framework and headache management — connecting classical models to extremity-certified chiropractic practice.
Full bios and the complete instructor roster: CCEDseminars faculty page.
Acupuncture CE has more state-by-state texture than almost any other category, in both directions. A few examples from our verified state guides: South Dakota requires acupuncture-certified DCs to complete 8 acupuncture hours each cycle — our 8-hour bundles map to that mandate one-to-one. Iowa credits up to 12 acupuncture hours for certified practitioners within its biennial requirement. On the acceptable-subjects side, states like Wisconsin and Wyoming list acupuncture among approved CE topics.
And the honest other direction: Hawaii does not approve acupuncture coursework for chiropractic CE at all. Acupuncture scope and CE acceptance vary by jurisdiction and by your certification status — check your state's guide or the full state directory before registering, and we'll tell you plainly where these hours don't count.
Two ready-made 8-hour bundles — Chiropractic Acupuncture 201–204 and Chiropractic Acupuncture 205–210, $160 each — package the foundations track and the applied track in one checkout, and fit South Dakota's 8-hour acupuncture mandate exactly. Prefer to build your own mix? Any 10+ hours in a single order earns the automatic 20% discount — no promo codes, ever. Browse Acupuncture Courses
The safety discipline behind every acupuncture treatment: single-use sterile needles, a sanitized clean field, point swabbing, insertion-tube technique, shallow insertion, and screening for infection risk and contraindications before the first needle is placed. Also known as safe needle handling, clean-field technique, acupuncture needle safety, aseptic needling practice, and safe point selection.
2 CE hours, fully online and self-paced — course video plus downloadable PDF notes, followed by an assessment. Your certificate is available in your account immediately upon completion, and enrollment includes 1 year of access.
It depends on your state and, in some states, on whether you hold acupuncture certification. Some jurisdictions require acupuncture hours of certified DCs (South Dakota), some credit them within the general requirement (Iowa, for certified practitioners), and at least one does not approve acupuncture coursework for chiropractic CE at all (Hawaii). Check your state's guide via the state directory before registering.
No — this is continuing education, not a licensure or certification pathway, and it is not the CCAOM Clean Needle Technique certification course required in acupuncture licensure. Whether and how a chiropractor may practice acupuncture is governed by your state's scope-of-practice rules and any certification your board requires.
Two prebuilt 8-hour bundles ($160 each) package the foundations track and the applied track — and fit South Dakota's 8-hour acupuncture requirement for certified DCs exactly. Building your own selection works too: discounts apply automatically at checkout — 10% off 6–9 hours, 20% off 10+ hours in a single order. No promo codes.
Acupuncture requirements vary by jurisdiction and by the chiropractor's scope, certification, or registration status. Review the online chiropractic CE guidelines page and contact CCEDseminars with questions about your specific licensing requirements before registering.
2 CE hours · $40 · online & self-paced · instant certificate. Add it to your cart above, or start the full 201–204 track in one checkout.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated August 20, 2026 (CT)
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