Dr. Michael Corradino graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Cum Laude, in 1995 with a Masters in Traditional Oriental Medicine (MTOM). He has been in the field of Integrated Chinese Medicine since his graduation (20+ years). His mission in life is to expose quality Integrative Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to as many people as possible in his lifetime, in order to present an effective, quality option for health care, while aiding the integration of Eastern, Western, and Natural medicine. While on the east coast, Dr. Corradino ran a very successful acupuncture treatment company in New York, as well as owning an acupuncture medical billing company. He relinquished his acupuncture contracts and relocated to San Diego in 2004 to complete his Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) in an effort to further enrich and deepen his understanding of TCM. It was at this time that he began to have deeper questions about the actual physiological mechanisms of acupuncture and began to research neurophysiology to investigate acupuncture in the area of neuroscience.
Dr. Corradino has been an educator for over a decade, teaching at Master and Doctoral levels. He has lectured at various professional institutions including UC Irvine School of Medicine, multiple professional Oriental and Acupuncture conferences, the Pacific Symposium, the San Diego Art Institute, and San Diego State University. He has been a guest on KUSI San Diego live morning news, had a health slot on the CS Keys sports talk show with On the Mic with Dr. Mike, presents continuing education unit (CEU)-accredited workshops on the theory and clinical applications of “Neuropuncture,” an acupuncture system based on neuroscience, and more. He is also the resident practitioner and weekly speaker for the elite Golden Door Spa and Retreat, located in Southern California. Here he presents every week on several topics, all involving Chinese medicine. He has been featured on their special Speaker Series and is in the process of developing and launching a product line integrating Traditional Chinese herbal medicine with nutraceuticals into transdermal patches.
Dr. Corradino was one of the first DAOM graduates in the USA. This postgraduate doctorate is a two-and-a-half-year integrated clinical doctorate in TCM, which includes, but is not limited to, the study of the five main Chinese medical classics, Chinese medical language, advanced areas of specialty (neuromuscular), an integrated clinical internship, and a Capstone proposal in which Dr. Corradino ran a successful clinical Electro-Acupuncture trial on sciatica due to intervertebral disc herniation. He has also studied medicine under five highly renowned and experienced doctors at two hospitals and one medical school in China, completing the first “Five Masters’ TCM Tour Program” in 2007.
Currently Dr. Corradino has two private practices in Southern California. As mentioned above, the first is the elite Golden Door Spa and Retreat. He also has a general practice, focusing on pain management, which is located inside Pain Care San Diego, an integrated pain center. He treats patients with a wide range of conditions as he focuses on applying neuroscience to every possible scenario in order to test its effectiveness across the board in all medical cases. His clinical interests include pain management, sports medicine, neurology, addiction medicine and pharmaceutical drug cessation treatments, neuromuscular conditions, general internal medicine such as cardiology and endocrinology, psychiatry, and general wellbeing/longevity.
Applying neurophysiology techniques to acupuncture and various types of Electro-Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Herbology mixed with nutraceuticals, and Tui Na (Chinese structural alignment) are some of Dr. Corradino’s special integration techniques. His passion, devotion, and belief in the integration of TCM and Western medical science contribute to his success.
Dr. Corradino has owned several clinics on hospital campuses and enjoys presenting the scientific research of the neuroscience of acupuncture to Western health care practitioners. He finds that they are extremely responsive. Dr. Corradino has developed Neuropuncture to better understand acupuncture’s mechanisms, cross-reference these mechanisms to TCM theory, create an acupuncture system in which practitioners can illustrate reproducible, consistent, and successful acupuncture treatments, and provide a new understanding of this ancient art and medicine.