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Dates: October 17th-19th, 2025
Approved for 25.5 California CEUs, Category 1, CEP#1721
Pending 26.5 NCCAOM PDAs, Category PE-CW
Times: Friday & Saturday: 9:00am-6:00pm; Sunday 9am-5:00pm
Location: Mesa, AZ
Venue: Crossfit Shokunin
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- 2023 Recorded Sports Seminar from Mesa, AZ
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- 6-month membership to Dr. Lombardi’s Mentorship Community
The perfect seminar for both Dry Needlers and Acupuncturists! Take your assessment and needling skills to the next level. Learn how to apply acupuncture and dry needling beyond just trigger points or local treatments. Learn to treat the root cause of pain and performance issues by finding and correcting dysfunction in athletes.
Dr. Anthony Lombardi and Dr. James Werner are seasoned veterans when it comes to treating athletes. Their backgrounds and experience fast-track you to becoming a top sports injury and performance practitioner. No, it does not take years. In fact, in one weekend you will obtain the understanding and skills necessary to treat athletes of many different sports and backgrounds – Weekend warriors, amateurs, and pros.
This seminar focuses on assessment, treatments, and new concepts including movement hierarchy and orders of operations, which simplifies and streamlines the assessment and treatment of athletes. Through lecture, extensive hands-on practice, and multiple patient demos on athletes. you will be able to apply these new skills the day you get back into your clinic.
This seminar includes follow-up support that assures you implement these changes into your practice successfully:
-6-month membership to Dr. Lombardi’s Mentorship Community on DrAnthonyLombardi.locals.com.
-2 business meeting via Zoom to discuss your branding, messaging, and website (with Joshua Swart, founder of ASE SEMINARS LLC)
Course objectives:
- Learn how to assess and treat sports injuries and performance issues in athletes
- Understand the specific movements involved in different sports based on vectors and lines of tension
- Understand how kinetic chains and energy transfer works, and what it means in assessment & treatment
- Learn, understand, and be able to apply the movement hierarchy including identifying the joints and muscles involved, and what this means diagnostically
- Understand and apply the order of operations for treating athletes
- Understand the athlete’s status – recovery, development, or performance via the EXSTORE™ exam
- Learn and be able to perform assessment and treatment strategies including motor point stimulation, electro-acupuncture, manual therapy, and rehab in the treatment of athletes
Itinerary:
Next Level Needling: Advanced Sports Injury & Performance Strategies for Assessing & Treating Athletes
⚠️ Movements covered apply to all sports – Sprinting, Swinging, Throwing
This is how we cover so much – it’s not sport-by-sport, it’s MOVEMENTS.
Friday – Sprinting
9:00am-10:00am – Patient demo
10:00am – 10:30am: Intro to the Course, Anthony, and James
10:30am – 12:00pm – Anthony and James: Quick review of the EXSTORE scan, functional tests; Special considerations when treating athletes: Fascia, ANS relationship to fascia; overtraining, neurogenic inflammation, motor inhibition, trophic changes, using multiple frequencies; all with focus on athletes
Simplifying: ID/ follow the patterns, cycles & connections of the above. Over training (CNS) -> motor inhibition: (overuse, Pain/ trauma, arthritic changes)-> Sympathetic dominance (ANS)-> fascial changes<->neurogenic inflammation & trophic changes
With athletes, performance dips or inconsistencies are often the first sign of issues/compensations. Don’t wait for pain to show up, be proactive. Performance & availability thrives on elite sensory-motor integration
12:00pm-12:15pm – Get food – catered lunch
12:15pm – 1:00pm – Lunchtime patient
1:00pm-3:00pm – Sprinting Anthony lecture + motor points
Traditional EXSTORE approach; assessment and treatment – motor points involved in that movement
Lecture and hands-on practice
3:00pm-5:30pm: Sprinting James lecture and lab
-Biomechanics + movement hierarchy
-Old Injuries
-Central stability
-Ipsilateral stability issues (lateral/ stirrup sling)- rotational issues
-Contralateral stability issues (cross body/ spiral line/ torsional vector)-Linear based movements
-Key muscles
-Concept of neuromuscular mapping of peripheral nerves/ plexus & segmental level
-Order of operations – example 3 exercises then breakout
-Modified Exstore (Intra-Abdominal Pressure / Breathing)
-McGill Bridge
-Wall Drive / March, skip, high knee progression
-Treatment strategy – Soft Tissue – Rehab
-1*: Diaphragm + Psoas : Wall bug- Varied leg angles & heights
-2*: TFL/Glute Med + Adductor Magnus – McGill Series (cross body plank if McGill busts)
-3* Tib post + Peroneal long – Extreme Iso Lunge & Wall Drive
5:30pm-6:30pm – live demo patient
Saturday – Swinging Movements
9:00am-10:00am – Demo patient
10:00am – 12:00pm – Swinging – Anthony
Traditional EXSTORE approach – motor points involved in that movement; lecture and hands-on practice
12:00-12:15pm – Catered lunch
12:15-1:00pm – Lunchtime patient
1:00pm-4:00pm – Swinging – James’s section
-Biomechanics + movement hierarchy
-Key muscles
-Order of operations – example 3 exercises then breakout
-Modified Exstore (obliques)
-Low Oblique Sit Transition (serratus, IAP, RTC)
-Hip Opener (Foot stability + Hip dissociation)
–Hip Drop (hip dissociation) **if hip opener is a bust
-Treatment strategy –Soft Tissue + Rehab
1* Diaphragm + Serratus: -Pidgeon Series
2* TFL + Adductors-Foam Roll Hip Shift
3* Rotator Cuff -Powell Raise
4:00pm-6:00pm – Demo patients – 1 or 2 depending on how much time
Sunday – Throwing Movements
9am-10:00am – Patient demo
10:00am – 12:00pm – Throwing – Anthony
Traditional EXSTORE approach – motor points involved in that movement, lecture and hands-on practice
12:00-12:15pm – Catered lunch
12:15-1:00pm – Lunchtime patient
1:00pm-4:00pm – Throwing – James’s section
-Biomechanics + movement hiearchy
-Key muscles
-Concept of neuromuscular mapping of peripheral nerves/ plexus & segmental level
-Order of operations – example 3 exercises then breakout
-Modified Exstore (latt)
-Supported ER
-DB/KB Serratus Hold
-Modified plank, cross body plank
-Treatment strategy –Soft Tissue + Rehab
-Scalenes (Serratus + Supra/Infra)
-Coracoid Process (Supra/infra)
-Lat (Intercostal & septum= serratus/latt)
4:00pm-5:00pm – Demo patient
About the Instructors:
Anthony Lombardi, DC, Founder of the EXSTORE™ System
Owner, Hamilton Back Clinic, Hamilton, ON
Dr. Anthony Lombardi is a 2002 graduate of the New York Chiropractic College in Seneca Falls, New York and completed the McMaster Contemporary Medical Acupuncture program in Hamilton, Ontario. He founded the Hamilton Back Clinic in 2002 and has since become a private consultant to athletes in the NFL, CFL, and NHL. Dr. Lombardi has accumulated some 190,000 treatments over the past 22 years of practice.
In addition to practicing, Dr. Lombardi was also an instructor in the Contemporary Medical Acupuncture Program at McMaster University from 2004 to 2013. In 2010 he developed EXSTORE™, an organized system of assessment and treatment that produces fast results using motor points, electro-acupuncture, soft tissue work, and other modalities. Dr. Lombardi has a library of on-demand education that continues to grow, with some 75 webinars available covering a variety of Musculoskeletal conditions and practice management topics. He also teaches his EXSTORE™ system through live, in-person seminars throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Dr. Lombardi maintains a busy practice, averaging 170 patient visits a week, including 12 new patients every week, for over ten years.
James Werner, DC, MSc. Sports Med., CSCS
Director of Rehabilitation at Tread Athletics
Growing up, James Werner was a high-level hockey player, wearing a letter on multiple teams that went to Nationals. Unfortunately, he suffered a string of injuries that culminated in one that knocked him out of the National Championship game. Struggling to understand why he was never the same after his injuries, James set off on a professional journey to give other injured athletes the opportunity to flip the script.
Now a chiropractor and clinician who helps athletes reach peak performance following injuries in their own careers, James has worked with athletes at every level, from high school and college to NHL players, Olympians, and MLB pitchers. As the Director of Rehabilitation at Tread Athletics, James’ expert skillset (D.C., M.Sc. Sports Med., CSCS) plays an integral role in hands-on therapy at Tread HQ, continuing education for our performance department, and the buildout of protocols and resources for remote athletes.