Program – 39. ICMART World Congress on Medical Acupuncture

6 NOVEMBER 2026

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Time	Main Hall	Parallel Hall 1	Parallel Hall 2	Parallel Hall 3	Parallel Hall 4	Time	Workshop Room 1	Workshop Room 2
09:00 – 10:00	Session 1 Keynote Speeches Chair: Marcia Yamamura
09:00 – 09:30	Konstantina Theodoratou Global Progression and Future Perspectives of Acupuncture in the Next-Generation Medicine and Patient Care
09:30 – 10:00	Guillermo Chaibún Hazardous Acupuncture Points in Pregnancy. True or False? Review
10:00 – 10:45	Opening Ceremony — ICMART President, General Secretary and Representatives of the European, Asian, North American and Latin American Chapters
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15	Session 2 Keynote Speeches Chair: Kanat Tayfun
11:15 – 11:45	Dongwoo Nam Beyond Pain Relief: Functional Restoration Through Evidence-Based Integrative Acupuncture: Perspectives from Korean Medicine
11:45 – 12:15	Chin Chan ICMART Charter 2026
12:15 – 13:15	ICMART Forum 1: Ethical Issues in Acupuncture Chair: Konstantina Theodoratou Discussants: Thomas Burgoon · Kanat Tayfun · Francisco Lozano · Dongwoo Nam





13:15 – 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:15	Session 3 Chair: Dongwoo Nam	Session 4 Chair: Josef Hummelsberger	Session 5 Chair: Tijen Acarkan	Session 6 Chair: Baha Çelik	Session 7 Chair: Batu Bayar	14:15 – 15:15	Sunita Kapur Prickling Nerve Stimulation Technique (PNST)	Dominik Irnich Trigger Point Acupuncture at the Upper Extremity (Shoulder, Elbow, Hand)
14:15 – 15:15	Session 3 Chair: Dongwoo Nam	Session 4 Chair: Josef Hummelsberger	Session 5 Chair: Tijen Acarkan	Session 6 Chair: Baha Çelik	Session 7 Chair: Batu Bayar
14:15 – 14:35	BoIn Kwon Sojadodamganggi-tang attenuates allergic lung inflammation by inhibiting T helper 2 cells and augmenting alveolar macrophages	Henri Yves Truong Tan Trung The Role of Acupuncture in General Practice: Scientific Evidence and Misconceptions	Demet Erdoğan Efficacy of Acupuncture in Managing COPD: An Overview of Anti-inflammatory Effects of Acupuncture	Ahmet Kalaycıoğlu Anatomy of Acupuncture	JengYi Chang Stage-Adapted Acupuncture for Peripheral Facial Palsy and Post-Paralytic Synkinesis
14:35 – 14:55	Jinyeong Hong Safety of Thread Embedding Acupuncture: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	Fatih Mehmet Sürmen A Multilayered Acupuncture Model: Integrating Embryology and Heaven-Earth-Human Concept	Onur Aksoy Balance Method Distal Acupuncture Delivered by Procaine Point Injection: Preliminary Experience from an Ongoing Case Series	Baha Çelik Effectiveness of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Post-Polio Syndrome	Zoya Jelovecki-Dokic Acupuncture for Residual Facial Palsy 25 Years After Bell's Palsy: A Case Report
14:55 – 15:15	Yoohyun Sim Pain Distribution-Based Clinical Phenotypes of Burning Mouth Syndrome: An Integrative Medicine Perspective	Josef Hummelsberger Acupuncture – Myths, Effectiveness vs. Efficacy, Dosage, Number of Needles – What We Could Have Learned from 30 Years of Research	Alenka Spindler Vesel - Jasmina Markovič Božič Randomized Clinical Study Comparing Two Acupuncture Methods for Migraine Treatment: Established Local Points vs. Channel‑Based Point Selection	Kemal Nuri Özerkan The Importance of Point Selection in Acupuncture Treatment	Songhomitra Panda Jonas Treatment of Age-Related Non-Exudative Macular Degeneration with Acupuncture – a Pilot Study
15:20 – 16:20	Session 8 Chair: İlhan Öztekin	Session 9 Chair: Kanat Tayfun	Session 10 Chair: Deniz Aracı	Session 11 Chair: Salih Urper	Session 12 Chair: Mehmet Dinçer Bilgin	15:20 – 16:20	Faruk Şahin Acupuncture Treatment for Cerebrovascular Diseases and Spinal Cord Injuries	Ayfer Kuzulugil Rapid-acting auriculotherapy for tension-type headaches
15:20 – 15:40	Fernando Farias How far are we from an Evidence-based Acupuncture?	Murat Topoğlu Acupuncture in obesity treatment	Alain Huchet Anorexia Nervosa and Po (魄)	Hicran Uşan The Five Osteopathic Models: A Clinical Framework for Integrative Medicine	Pei-Hsuan Li Acupuncture Combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine for Severe Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report
15:40 – 16:00	Thomas Burgoon The future of acupuncture research: comparative effectiveness trials	Dilek Öztaş Acupuncture in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	Liu Baoyan WFAS President's Speech	Gül Kulan Acupuncture for Muscle Health: From Sports Medicine to Healthy Aging	Syuan-Yu Wu Integrating Acupuncture into the Treatment of a Patient with Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report
16:00 – 16:20	Keiko Ogawa Kampo Medicine Today: The Traditional Art and Scientific Evidence	Sercan Bulut The Effect of Acupuncture Therapy on Serum Asymmetric Dimethylarginine Levels in Patients with Chronic Coronary Syndromes	Siwoo Lee Predicting Sleep Efficiency in University Health Center Visitors using Sasang Constitution Probabilities, BMI, and Autonomic Biomarkers: A Machine Learning and Regression Analysis	Saliha Karatay TDAS Bioholographic Breast Somatotop	Hua Lin Yang Acupuncture as an Adjunctive Therapy for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report
16:20 – 16:40	Coffee Break
16:40 – 17:40	Session 13 Chair: Thomas Burgoon	Session 14 Chair: Murat Topoğlu	Session 15 Chair: Ahmet Kalaycıoğlu	Session 16 Chair: Hicran Demir Usan	Session 17 Chair: Sunita Kapur	16:40 – 17:40	Ladislav Fildán Biodermal Threads as Related Method of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Disorders	Guillermo Chaibún Wrist & Ankle Acupuncture
16:40 – 17:40	Session 13 Chair: Thomas Burgoon	Session 14 Chair: Murat Topoğlu	Session 15 Chair: Ahmet Kalaycıoğlu	Session 16 Chair: Hicran Demir Usan	Session 17 Chair: Sunita Kapur
16:40 – 17:00	Cemal Çevik Proposition of a New Meridian Pair in Acupuncture: The Endocrine–Hypothalamus Meridian	Deniz Aracı Chinese dietetics and anti-inflammatory nutrition	Yücel Katı Evaluation of acupuncture for dry eye and dry tongue	Abdurrahim Koçyiğit The Role of Natural Products and Their Active Compounds in Cancer Chemoprevention	Raman Kapur Manaka's Approach to Treatment
17:00 – 17:20	Marcia Yamamura Tinnitus Management with Dry Needling and Yamamura Acupuncture Microsystem	Mehmet Dinçer Bilgin Potential Therapeutic Effects of Photobiomodulation at the Huantiao (GB30) Acupoint in an Experimental Model of Diabetic Neuropathy	Akihiro Kawahara Li Development of an Automated Tongue Diagnosis System for Estimating Kampo Pathological States from a Single iPad-Captured Facial Image	Metin Turan TCM Herbal Teas and Clinical Case Analyses	Songhomitra Panda Jonas Dynamic Flow Acupuncture for Adhesive Capsulitis
17:20 – 17:40	Rezan Akpınar “Meridian”: One Word, Many Structures – Re-evaluating Meridian Terminology in Research	Erfan Ghanad Patient-blinded Pilot Study on the Impact of Intraoperative Acupuncture on Recovery and Pain in Thoracic Surgery – ThorACU feasibility trial	Doğuş Bahadır Why is pulse diagnosis important in acupuncture?	Nazlı Ferhan Sayıt Coşkun Aromatherapy and Acupuncture in Emotional Trauma	Boris Ivanic Management of Functional Joint Instability in Athletes Using Thread Embedding Therapy (TET): From Theoretical Model to Clinical Practice in Ankle Injuries
17:45 – 18:45	Session 18 Chair: Cemal Çevik	Session 19 Chair: Cüneyt Bozer	Session 20 Chair: Didem Tuba Akçalı	Session 21 Chair: Abdurrahim Koçyiğit	Session 22 Chair: Hasan Karaağaç	17:45 – 18:45	Raman Kapur Color Therapy in Acupuncture – A Needleless Option	Hicran Demir Usan Bloodletting and Hot Cupping as Acupuncture-Related Approaches in Musculoskeletal Pain
17:45 – 18:05	Ayfer Kuzulugil Clinical Evaluation and Auriculotherapy in Headaches	Yanpi Li Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation for Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial	Lorente Marian Neuromodulation and Medical Acupuncture in Pain Units	Ali Timuçin Atayoğlu Apipuncture	Ting-Yu Huang An exploratory study of the De-Qi location of LI11 acupoint
18:05 – 18:25	Faiza Machou Management of masticatory system dysfunction using auriculotherapy	Yiming Fu Electroacupuncture Alleviates KOA-Induced Pain and Cartilage Degeneration via NGF/TrkA Pathway	Ivan Šklebar Treatment of chronic postherpetic neuralgia with acupuncture and skin infiltration with local anesthetic and corticosteroid	Batu Bayar Leech therapy on acupuncture points	Jian-Feng Tu Blinding Effect of Sham Acupuncture Combining Penetrating and Non-Penetrating Needles in Healthy Volunteers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
18:25 – 18:45	Hakan Ertok Towards a Mathematical Model of Auricular Acupuncture: A Conceptual Framework	Na-Na Yang Electroacupuncture ameliorates postoperative ileus by driving muscularis macrophage reprogramming and suppressing IL-6: a cross-species study	Ekaterina Kopylova Acupuncture of Yin and Yang Luo-Connecting Group Points for More Pronounced Pain Reduction in Radiculopathy Caused by Cervical Intervertebral Disc Herniation	Dursun Ünal Apipuncture in Rheumatoid Arthritis	Hayriye Alp Patient series of homeopathy and acupuncture applied in rhinoplasty cases
18:45 – 19:45	Poster Session
20:30 – 22:00	Welcome Reception

7 NOVEMBER 2026

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Time	Main Hall	Parallel Hall 1	Parallel Hall 2	Parallel Hall 3	Parallel Hall 4	Time	Workshop Room 1	Time	Workshop Room 2	Workshop Room 3
09:00 - 10:00	Session 23 Chair: Chunn Lee Oei-Tan
09:00 – 09:30	David Vinyes Unlocking the Capacity to Respond: Allostatic Load, Autonomic Regulation, and Neural Therapy
09:30 – 10:00	Pakhi Chaudhuri Qigong Sensory Therapy for Autism: A Classical Chinese Medicine Framework, Evidence‑Based Clinical Implications, and Research Directions
10:10 – 11:10	Session 24 Chair: Rezzan Akpınar	Session 25 Chair: Görkem Tuncay	Session 26 Chair: Tuğrul Cabioğlu	Session 27 Chair: Oğuzhan Gündüz	Session 28 Chair: Fatih Mehmet Sürmen	10:10 – 11:10	Rezzan Akpınar “Meridian”: Many Channels, Many Treatment Methods – Differentiating Channel Pathologies and Selecting Appropriate Treatment Approaches	10:10 – 10:55	Cemal Çevik Three-Cycle Acupuncture (45 min)	Bin Xue Medical Tai Chi Exercise Healing System: Therapeutic effects of medical Tai Chi



10:10 – 10:30	Chunn Lee Oei-Tan TCM Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine in the Elderly – Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine in an Eighty-Year-Old Patient	Elham Hooshyarazar Acupuncture in Uterine Fibroids Management: Literature Update on the Underlying Mechanism	Elvan Sarac Jennings Botanical and Bioregulatory Injectable Agents in Acupuncture Point Injection Therapy: Clinical Applications, Mechanistic Rationale, and Research Challenges	Ali Özden Öztürk HYPNO-ACUPUNCTURE: The relationship between AUCH Hypnosis (Awareness Under Conscious Hypnosis) and AUCH Acupuncture (Acupuncture Using Complementary Healing)	İpek Nurdan Dikmen The Regulatory Role of Acupuncture on Gut Microbiota and the Gut–Brain Axis in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Current Evidence
10:30 – 10:50	Karin Stockert Simple herbal prescriptions for acupuncturists to tonify Qi and Blood	Hoda Azizi Acupuncture Versus Clomiphene for Ovulation Induction in Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): A Randomized Clinical Trial	Murad Aktan Potential Synergistic Effects of Acupuncture and Stem Cell-Based Therapies	Mehmet Karav Needles in Our Souls: The Traumas We Carry	Teresa Nadia Marpaung Acupuncture as Adjunctive Therapy in Insulin-Dependent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Comprehensive Clinical Case Report			10:55 – 11:40	Cemal Çevik Microcolon Acupuncture (45 min)	Bin Xue Medical Tai Chi Exercise Healing System: Therapeutic effects of medical Tai Chi
10:50 – 11:10	Francisco Lozano Effective herbal prescriptions for acupuncturists to regulate Qi stagnation & to nourish Liver and Kidney	Ramin Majlesi The effect of acupressure at the Sanyinjiao point (SP6) on primary dysmenorrhea in students resident in dormitories of Tabriz	Tuğrul Cabioğlu Acupuncture and Stem Cell-Rich Plasma Pharmacopuncture in Patients with Dementia: Clinical Observations	Semih Emre Ayyıldız The Word Beside the Needle: Suggestion, Expectancy and Nocebo in Needle- and Hand-Based Medicine	Chang-Hang Ren Effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for functional constipation: An updated overview of systematic reviews			10:55 – 11:40	Cemal Çevik Microcolon Acupuncture (45 min)
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:40	Session 29 Chair: Yukako Tachibana	Session 30 Chair: Francisco Lozano	Session 31 Chair: Myungseok Ryu	Session 32 Chair: Hakan Volkan Acar	Session 33 Chair: Sonja Maric	11:40 – 13:10	Kosei Hanaoka & Keiko Ogawa The K-Style Contact Needle Technique (CNT; sesshoku-shin): History, Philosophy, and Hands-on Practice	11:40 – 12:40	Fatih Sağ Basic Acupuncture Applications	Saliha Karatay TDAS Bioholographic Breast Somatotop
11:40 – 12:00	Hidenori Ito Characteristics of Japanese Acupuncture	Asuman Kaplan Algın Cosmetic acupuncture	Hyocheong Chae Anatomical and Physiological Approach to Acupuncture: Why It Is Needed and What It Offers	Duygu Dayanır Medical Ozone Therapy from a Histological Perspective: Current Assessment of Tissue Effects	Marcia Yamamura Pediatric Hospital Acupuncture and Palliative Care: Clinical Experience of São Paulo Hospital, Federal University of São Paulo, in the Public Health System, Brazil
12:00 – 12:20	Yuto Matsuura Japanese Modern Medical Acupuncture	Lili Luzina Chju Type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications	Kwanghwan Lim Introduction to Acupotomy: Fundamentals, Distinction from Conventional Acupuncture, and Mechanisms	Aygen Türkmen The Future of Regenerative Synergy: Ozone Therapy and Exosomes	Jadwiga Hajewska Kosi Celebrating 50 Years of Medical Acupuncture in Slovenia: Development, Education, and International Cooperation
12:20 – 12:40	Ikuro Wakayama Acupuncture Recommendations in Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines: Is the Evidence Applicable to Japanese Patients?	Xixiyun Wang Fire Needle Therapy Improves Pain and Muscle Stiffness in Sleep-Related Leg Cramps: A Randomized Sham-Controlled Clinical Trial	Myungseok Ryu Clinical Applications of Acupotomy and Case Experience in Difficult Disorders	Didem Tuba Akçalı Ozonepuncture	Seda Irer Pain and combining acupuncture related techniques; ear, scalp, body and photonics
12:45 – 13:45	Session 34 Chair: Dominik Irnich	Session 35 Chair: Guillermo Chaibún	Session 36 Chair: Jonas Vasmer	Session 37 Chair: Yücel Katı	Session 38 Chair: Ali Özden Öztürk			12:40 – 13:40	Seonghyung Cho From Functional Diagnosis to Integrative Treatment in Chronic Low Back Pain and Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Dr. Cho’s FSC-Based Identification of rLOR+(4/5) with Acupuncture and PHFM Chuna	Mehmet Karav & Semih Emre Ayyıldız Needles in the Soul, Words at the Skin: A Hypnosis Workshop for the Acupuncture Clinic
12:45 – 13:45	Session 34 Chair: Dominik Irnich	Session 35 Chair: Guillermo Chaibún	Session 36 Chair: Jonas Vasmer	Session 37 Chair: Yücel Katı	Session 38 Chair: Ali Özden Öztürk
12:45 – 13:05	İlhan Öztekin Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture in Chronic Pain Management	Zuhal Dilek Şanlı Complementary medicine and women's health in intergenerational transmission	Tanja Rauter Pungartnik Effectiveness of Medical Acupuncture as an Adjunct to Spa Rehabilitation after Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Reconstruction	Cüneyt Bozer Auricular Chromotherapy for Trauma-Related Symptoms: A Case Series of Rapid Clinical Responses	Bülent Özdemir Mesotherapy application to acupuncture points
13:05 – 13:25	Francisco Lozano The Five Pillars of Modern Medical Acupuncture: An Original Integrative Clinical Reasoning Model for Contemporary Medical Practice – Clinical Application I: Migraine	Görkem Tuncay Acupuncture in female infertility	Guang-Xia Shi Effect of Meridian-Based Acupuncture on Sciatica: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial	Sevil Tunabayoglu YNSA in Parkinson's Disease	Hasan Karaağaç Injecting 5% Dextrose into acupuncture points
13:25 – 13:45	Tuğrul Cabioğlu Acupuncture and Pharmacopuncture in Pain Management: Clinical Observations in Lumbar Disc Herniation	Sunita Kapur Acupuncture Balance Method for Fertility: Application of Dr. Tan’s Balance Method in Selected Gynecological and Infertility Cases	Hicran Demir Usan From Needles to Gene Regulation: Acupuncture and the Epigenetic Clock in Fibromyalgia	Erfan Ghanad Acupuncture for Postoperative Pain and Recovery After Bariatric Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial	Ahmet Yasin Tekin Acupuncture and Mesotherapy in Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: Current Evidence and Hypotheses for Combined Use
13:45 – 14:45	Lunch Break
14:50 – 15:50	Session 39 Chair: Patrick Sautreuil	Session 40 Chair: Asuman Kaplan Algın	Session 41 Neural Therapy Chair: Petja Piehler	Session 42 Chair: Karin Stockert	Session 43 Chair: Elvan Sarac Jennings	14:50 – 15:50	Jonas Vasmer RAVA – Regulative and Vitalizing (Ear-) Acupuncture	14:50 – 15:50	Francisco Lozano Special Acupuncture & Related Techniques for the Most Common Musculoskeletal Disorders	Pakhi Chaudhuri Qigong Sensory Therapy for Autism: A Demonstration and Clinical Overview of an Evidence‑Based Intervention
14:50 – 15:50	Session 39 Chair: Patrick Sautreuil	Session 40 Chair: Asuman Kaplan Algın	Session 41 Neural Therapy Chair: Petja Piehler	Session 42 Chair: Karin Stockert	Session 43 Chair: Elvan Sarac Jennings
14:50 - 15: 10	Hakan Volkan Acar History of Acupuncture in Turkey: From Central Asia to Anatolia	Sonja Maric Tibetan Medicine and Acupuncture – Two Traditions, One Vision of Balance	Petja Piehler Introduction to Neural Therapy	Irmgard Simma-Kletschka Functional disorders – CMD – immediate effects of oral acupuncture: the sensitivity of muscles and oral acupuncture areas for diagnosis and therapies	Putri Ade Meuratana Effectiveness of Laser Acupuncture Therapy Compared with NSAIDs on Pain Reduction and Quality of Life in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: a Randomized Controlled Trial
15:10 – 15:30	Ilgaz Akdoğan What Do the Treatment Methods at Ancient Hospitals – the Asclepieion – Tell Us Today?	Josef Hummelsberger The State of Evidence in Acupuncture – Update 2023–2024	Christine Wibmer Persistent Pain in the Extremities and Oropharyngeal Inflammation – Case Presentation and Literature Review	Nezir Çelik Diagnostic and Therapeutic Methodology in Master Tung's Acupuncture System	Josipa Kljajić Acupuncture in a Patient with Persistent Tietze Syndrome: A Case Report
15:30 – 15:50	Doğu Yıldırım From Göbeklitepe to the Present: The Evolution of Anatolian Medicine	Ethem Hakan Eraltan A New Holistic Acupuncture Approach Based on the Four Elements	Michaela Klausner How to Treat Craniomandibular Dysfunction (CMD) – Update 2026	Fatih Mehmet Sürmen Hand & Foot Microsystems for Lumbar Radiating Leg Pain: Guided by Master Tung’s Approach	Amir Hooman Kazemi Comparative Efficacy of Acupuncture, Venesection, and Physical Therapy on Chronic Low Back Pain Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial
15:50 – 16:50	Session 44 Chair: Gerhard Litscher	Session 45 Chair: Konstantina Theodoratou	Session 46 Neural Therapy Chair: Demet Erdoğan	Session 47 Chair: Gülsemin Ertürk Çelik	Session 48 Chair: Erol Güçlü Gülanber	15:50 – 16:50	Jonas Vasmer RAVA – Regulative and Vitalizing (Ear-) Acupuncture	15:50 – 16:50	Francisco Lozano Special Acupuncture & Related Techniques for the Most Common Musculoskeletal Disorders	İlhan Öztekin Acupuncture treatment with a low number of needles for chronic pain
15:50 – 16:50	Session 44 Chair: Gerhard Litscher	Session 45 Chair: Konstantina Theodoratou	Session 46 Neural Therapy Chair: Demet Erdoğan	Session 47 Chair: Gülsemin Ertürk Çelik	Session 48 Chair: Erol Güçlü Gülanber
15:50 – 16:10	Dominik Irnich Recent developments in Acupuncture research on mechanisms, clinical evidence and new obstacles	Oğuzhan Gündüz Hypnotic Healing Techniques in Male Sexual Dysfunction	Fatma Gülçin Ural Nazlıkul Neural therapy and acupuncture for patients with fibromyalgia syndrome	Gülsemin Ertürk Çelik Cupping Therapy in Musculoskeletal Disorders: Current Evidence and Clinical Perspectives	Erol Güçlü Gülanber Implant Acupuncture (Gold Bead Implantation) in Dogs and Cats with Spondylosis Deformans
16:10 – 16:30	Olivier Cuignet Segmental Electroacupuncture for Long COVID Neuropathic Pain: A Neuroimmune Rationale Based on Dorsal Root Ganglion Autoimmunity	Kanat Tayfun Comparison of Ayurvedic and phytotherapeutic supplements in the lower urinary system	Tijen Acarkan Efficiency of neural therapy and acupuncture in migraine	Batu Bayar Cupping therapy according to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine	Sonila Kiki The Use of Acupuncture in Canine Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
16:30 – 16:50	Isabel Giralt Clinical and Demographic Profile of 4,899 Patients Attending an Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine Clinic: A Retrospective Descriptive Study	M. Mustafa Çiftçi The Efficacy of Auriculotherapy in the Treatment of Oligospermia	Burcu Kaner Soylu Neural Therapy and Acupuncture for Low Back Pain	Salih Urper Hands and Needles: Osteopathy and Acupuncture: Does 1 + 1 Equal 3?
16:50 – 17:10	Coffee Break
17:10 – 18:10	ICMART Forum 2: What Is a Related Technique in Acupuncture? Chair: Francisco Lozano Discussants: Petja Piehler · Konstantina Theodoratou · Hicran Demir Usan




18:15 – 19:15	ICMART General Assembly
20:00 – 24:00	Gala Dinner

8 NOVEMBER 2026

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Time	Main Hall	Parallel Hall 1	Time	Workshop Room 1	Workshop Room 2	Time	Workshop Room 3	Workshop Room 4
09:00 – 10:30	Session 49 Chair: Gerhard Litscher	Session 50 Chair: M. Mustafa Çiftçi	09:00 – 10:30	Marcia Yamamura Rapid Acupuncture and Yamamura Acupuncture Microsystems for Acute Conditions in the Urgent Care Setting	Myungseok Ryu, Kwanghwan Lim, Hyocheong Chae Acupotomy treatment	09:00 – 09:45	Hidenori Ito Introduction to Meridian Therapy: A Traditional Japanese Acupuncture Approach	Yücel Katı Evaluation of acupuncture for dry eye and dry tongue
09:00 – 09:30	Gerhard Litscher The Science of Laser Acupuncture: From Past to Future	Vida Bojnec Immediate Effects of Wrist and Ankle Acupuncture on Pain and Shoulder Mobility in Patients with Shoulder Pain
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00	Şerafettin Özdoğan Acupuncture, Fascial Networks, and Rhythmic Fascial Organization: From Traditional Meridian Theory to a Mechanobiological Approach	Elvan Sarac Jennings Acupuncture in the United States: Current Utilization, Regulation, Education, and Healthcare Integration
09:30 – 10:00						09:45 – 10:30	Yuto Matsuura Hands-on Clinical Applications of Japanese Modern Medical Acupuncture for Depression and Somatic Distress	Fatih Mehmet Sürmen From Mapping to Needling: Hands-on Distal Systems for Lumbar Radiating Leg Pain
10:00 – 10:30	Marco Antonio Helio Silva A Systematic Review of Electroacupuncture on Postoperative Pain Control	Muhammet Ali Beheşti Baylan Acupuncture applications in neurodegenerative diseases
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00	ICMART Forum 3: What’s the Point? Chair: Dominik Irnich Discussants: Patrick Sautreuil · Cemal Çevik · Marcia Yamamura





12:00 – 13:00	ICMART Young Scientist Awards & ICMART Science Award Ceremony
13:00 – 13:15	ICMART Poster Award Ceremony
13:15 – 13:45	ICMART Ambassador Forum
13:45 – 14:15	Closing Ceremony / Presentation of ICMART 2027