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Mission Critical: Acupuncture Bill Summer 2025
Hello Acupuncture Community June, July, and Aug 2025 will be key months for FSOMA fundraising and for members to meet with their local legislators. Keeping the Acupuncture...
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FSOMA Executive Director speaks at DRCOM Graduation
Here is the text of FSOMA Exeutive Director’s speech at the 4/19/25 Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine graduatoin. Welcoming You to the Profession — and the FS...
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More Than Skin Deep: Dragon Rises College Becomes the 1st Acupuncture School in the Region to Offer Student Cadaver Lab
SARASOTA, FL— On the Bradenton campus of Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine (DRCOM) students now have access to the area’s first student acupuncture cadaver lab. Th...
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Legislative Committee Update – April 2025
Florida Acupuncture bill HB 803 was reported favorable and the House Health and Human Services Committee yesterday with the vote 22-0. This was another positive step for u...
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FSOMA is in our second year of attempting to get the update to Chapter 457
FSOMA is in its second year of attempting to get the update to Chapter 457 (the statute governing us) passed. This is not a “one and done project”, but a [&hell...
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Letter from FSOMA to the ASA Regarding Dry Needling
To: American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) Subject: FSOMA’s Response in Support of ILSA’s Position on ASA’s Proposed Dry Needling Task Force/Trigger Point Acupunct...
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Acupuncture Bill Moves Forward
Update as of 4/16/25 Florida Acupuncture bill HB 803 was reported favorable and the House Health and Human Services Committee yesterday with the vote 22-0. This was another...
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Political Action
“If you are not at the table, you are ON the table” ……unknown political activist FSOMA Members Mary Riggin, Hongjian He, Machelle Perkins & Yue ...
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FSOMA Attends ASA Conference and Fly In
The American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) held their annual conference in Washington DC April 5-8.  The meeting began with a national council meeting with representative...
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Live at the Forum – Fang’s Scalp Acupuncture
This past weekend was my first live acupuncture seminar since COVID. I have been overwhelmed by the sheer energy generated by a group of colleagues (APs, students and teac...
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New Massage Establishment Law will Affect APs who have LMTs in Their Office
Florida’s New Massage Establishment Law (click link above for FULL TEXT HB 197) Effective: July 1, 2024 House Bill 197 on Massage Establishments was signed by Governo...
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Lynne Carol Sheppard, AP, DOM, 72, of Belleview, Florida
Dec 1, 2021 – Lynne Carol Sheppard, AP, DOM, 72, of Belleview, Florida passed away November 26, 2021, at Estelle’s Hospice House, Ocala, Florida surrounded by friends...
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Update from FBI on Scam Phone Calls tp Healthcare Providers
This is a scam likely perpetrated by foreign criminal groups. My research indicates that these scams (posing as a medical board official), with some variations on the theme...
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Discussion of Essential Business and Governor’s Order
Discussion of Essential Business and Governor’s Order
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Dry Needling Requirements: 2020
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