Jonah Hershowitz, LAc, CMTPT/DN

Co-Owner & Clinical Director
Myofascial Pain & Dry Needling

Myofascial pain clinician and educator.

Jonah co-founded AcuGroup and serves as its clinical director. He has practiced and studied dry needling and the treatment of muscle pain for more than 25 years. His work draws on current pain science and a detailed knowledge of neuromuscular and fascial anatomy.

Today Jonah works mostly remotely. He oversees the plans of care for his patients, who see AcuGroup providers between his visits, and he treats in person a few times a year. He leads development of the AcuGroup Method and trains our providers in it. He also consults with patients and clinicians on complex pain cases and teaches practitioners outside AcuGroup.

Over his years in practice, his patients have included professional athletes, performing artists, and founders and CEOs of major technology and financial companies.

Teaching & Research

Co-conducted a randomized controlled trial on electroacupuncture analgesia at the Stanford Pain Lab with principal investigator Nick Phillips, MD, advised by Helen Langevin, MD, of the University of Vermont
Presented at the World Congress on Pain (Buenos Aires) and the Society for Acupuncture Research conference at Harvard Medical School
Co-taught with Anthony von der Muhll in the AOM Professional Integrative Acupuncture Orthopedics & Sports Medicine program
Has lectured at professional conferences and hospitals

Specialties

Jonah’s clinical focus is persistent, complicated pain: neck, back, and hip pain, thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), TMJ dysfunction, carpal tunnel syndrome and other wrist and arm pain, and foot pain.

Training

Certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist, Dry Needling (CMTPT/DN), Myopain Seminars, with Jan Dommerholt, PT, DPT
Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine, one-year certificate program, with Alon Marcus, DOM
Fascial Manipulation, Level I, with Antonio Stecco, MD
Interdisciplinary pain rounds, Pacific Pain Treatment Center, with Elliot Krames, MD
Photobiomodulation training with James Carroll, THOR Photomedicine, and Low Intensity Laser Therapy certification, Meditech International, Toronto
Clinical internship, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sichuan, China (1999)
Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine (MTCM), Five Branches Institute
Professional bodywork certification (Tui Na, Shiatsu, Thai, deep tissue), Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (now Pacific College of Health and Science)

License & Affiliations

California Acupuncture License #AC9538
Founding President, San Francisco Chapter, Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM)
Member, Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR)
Member, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Clinic Experience

Co-Founder and Clinical Director, AcuGroup
Founder, Roots & Blossoms Medicine
Acupuncture Provider and Program Director, Providence House, Oakland
Clinical work in Naples, Italy, at Centro Shen and Ospedale Ascalesi

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