Besides the other numerous benefits to FSOMA membership listed at FSOMA.org, including the soon-to-be-upgraded website which will facilitate patient referrals directly to you, consider this.
Our basic right to practice acupuncture has been created and sustained over the past 40 years by the Florida State Oriental Medical Association (FSOMA). Before FSOMA, we were only able to practice under the supervision of MD’s or DO’s, and at that we were only allowed to stick in needles and use moxa. Nothing else. We had no legal right to diagnose. No rights to do massage, recommend herbs and supplements, use e-stim, light therapy, essential oils, or treat with any other of the many modalities we now regularly employ. We had no right to call ourselves Acupuncture Physicians or even bill insurance companies independent of our MD overlords. Believe me. I know. That’s how it was when I came to Florida in 1982, until a courageous and determined group of FSOMA members gathered the political support in Florida’s Legislature to create laws and rules in our favor.