| Catalog: | 10 online courses · 17 total CE hours · 1–2 hours each |
| Faculty: | Stephen Tranter, DC · 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 |
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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 — each course below appears in the grid at the bottom of this page.
The starting point — and the block every practicing DC should keep current regardless of experience.
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 — the course grid below always shows the current catalog.
• Clean needle technique, contraindications, risk awareness, and the documentation habits that make acupuncture defensible in a chiropractic setting.
• Diagnostic point concepts and efficient, protocol-driven thinking for common musculoskeletal and pain presentations — including headache management.
• Evidence-informed applications across pain-related, whole-person, and mental-health-adjacent care topics.
• The conceptual architecture of the discipline — history, philosophy, yin-yang, and the 8 principles — so technique rests on understanding.
Stephen Tranter, DC leads the foundation and protocol sequence (201–204) — clean needle technique through efficient treatment protocols — built from practicing-clinician experience with the presentations chiropractors actually see.
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. Both bundle cards appear in the grid below.
Online continuing education built for chiropractors who use or are exploring acupuncture: clean needle technique, clinical safety and contraindications, diagnostic point selection, treatment protocols for common presentations, and the discipline's conceptual foundations. Courses run 1–2 CE hours each, on-demand, with an assessment and instant certificate.
Start in the Safety Foundations lane — clean needle technique and safety/risk coursework — if you're building or refreshing your base. Move into the Clinical Protocols lane for applied point selection and condition-focused treatment planning, and the Concepts & Applications lane for history, philosophy, and the 8-principles framework. The pathway map above shows the current course in each lane.
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 — these are continuing education courses, not a licensure or certification pathway. Whether and how a chiropractor may practice acupuncture is governed by your state's scope-of-practice rules and any certification your board requires. The coursework strengthens knowledge and supports CE renewal where accepted; your board defines what you may do with it clinically.
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.
State Approval and Licensing Reminder
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.
The cards below are generated live from the CCEDseminars catalog — individual courses and the two 8-hour bundles. Select “More Info” for the full course page, or add directly to your cart.
CCEDseminars · PACE Provider #34015544 · Reviewed by Monte Horne, DC · Last updated August 9, 2026 (CT)
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