From June 29th to July 1st, 2018, the American Society of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture (ACTMS) held a three-day International Acupuncture Pain Forum and the first advanced training course on acupuncture pain at the Sheraton Flushing Hotel in New York. A report on the “Acupuncture Indications Survey in American Acupuncture Clinics” was released at the dinner on June 30th.

The forum invited internationally renowned pain experts from the main medical schools in the United States and China's leading acupuncture experts, as well as well-known Chinese medicine practitioners and acupuncturists from the first-line work in the United States to conduct academic exchanges and lectures and demonstrations. On July 1st, Chen Decheng was invited to give an academic report on “Motion Acupuncture Treatment of Soft Tissue Injury” at the conference, and demonstrated it on the spot.