Lindsay Long, L.Ac., C.SMA®, received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sports and Health Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. There she conducted research on the effects of exercise versus pharmaceutical drugs on clinical depression and extensively studied athletic training with the head trainer for the University of Missouri Tigers football team. She graduated from Northwestern Health Sciences University with a Masters Degree in Oriental Medicine.Lindsay completed a year long certification process in Sports Medicine Acupuncture® at NESA in Boston, Massachusetts in 2010. She is currently one of only two acupuncturists in the state of Colorado as well as one of only two acupuncturists in the state of Minnesota certified to provide this advanced training in the treatment of sports injuries using motor point needling techniques, soft tissue mobilization, and rehabilitative exercises. In 2012 and 2013 Lindsay was honored to assist Matt Callison as a teaching assistant to the Sports Medicine Acupuncture® program in Boston.Lindsay completed a six month Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship with Whitfield Reaves in 2011, one of the innovators in the field of sports acupuncture and performance enhancement, in Boulder, Colorado. In June 2013 Lindsay was honored to take over Whitfield’s practice in Boulder, Colorado while he is on a sabbatical in Maui, Hawaii. Lindsay collaborates closely with Whitfield and provides sports acupuncture to a variety of athletes in Colorado including Iron Man athletes, cyclists, marathoners, gymnasts, arena football players, as well as weekend warriors. Lindsay currently practices primarily in Boulder, Colorado, but returns to Minnesota once a month to provide acupuncture at her office in Maple Grove. Lindsay has worked with professional athletes from all over the country by providing sports acupuncture to NFL players at the Larry Fitzgerald Receiver camp the past four years and well as in the office in Maple Grove.Specialties: Sports Medicine Acupuncture®