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June 24, 2021
Treating Low Back and Hip Pain
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Treating Low Back and Hip Pain is designed for the orthopedic and sports acupuncturist. This course emphasizes diagnosis and assessment, with all treatment plans and choice of points based upon anatomical factors. Included is the location and palpation of trigger points, motor points, and other anatomically significant zones. Easy-to-understand treatment plans that features the "triad of the low back" are presented, resulting in increased clinical clarity and precision. The following structures are covered in this three-hour course:
(1) The quadratus lumborum with points Pigen and Yaoyan.
(2) The gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. Features the extraordinary point Jiankua.
(3) The sacral-iliac joint. The zone of Bl 27 & Bl 28.
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June 24, 2021 - 12pm PDT, 3pm EDT (3 hrs)
Presentation of didactic material.Video Demonstration.Summary. Question and answer
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Whitfield Reaves
In practice for over 30 years, Whitfield Reaves, OMD, L.Ac., specializes in the field of sports medicine. Being in the forefront of the acupuncture sports medicine field, Whitfield's experience includes working with athletes at the 1984 LA Olympic Games and other sport competitions; an author, he teaches internationally as well.
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July 20, 2021
Treating Knee Injury and Pain
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Treating Knee Injuries and Pain is designed for the orthopedic and sports acupuncturist. This course emphasizes diagnosis and assessment, with all treatment plans and choice of points based upon anatomical factors. Included are trigger points, motor points, and treating the synovial joint. Easy-to-understand treatment plans are presented, resulting in increased clinical effectiveness. The following structures are covered in this three-hour course:
(1) The patello-femoral joint. Highlights: Xiyan into the sub patellar space.
(2) The medial compartment of the knee. Highlights: Threading the joint line.
(3) The ilio-tibial band. Highlights: Threading the ilio-tibial tract at GB 33.
(4) The pes anserine. Highlights: The region of Sp 9.
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July 20, 2021 - 12pm PDT, 3pm EDT (3 hrs)
Presentation of didactic material.Video of Demonstration.Summary. Question and answer
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Whitfield Reaves
In practice for over 30 years, Whitfield Reaves, OMD, L.Ac., specializes in the field of sports medicine. Being in the forefront of the acupuncture sports medicine field, Whitfield's experience includes working with athletes at the 1984 LA Olympic Games and other sport competitions; an author, he teaches internationally as well.
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July 24-25, 2021
SMAC - The Spinal Column - Postural Assessment & Corrective Exercise (PACE I)
SMAC - The Spinal Column - Postural Assessment & Corrective Exercise (PACE I)
with Ian Armstrong, Matt Callison, and Brian Lau
July 24-25, 2021
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This 2-day cutting-edge course will teach the practitioner how to assess postural dysfunction and prescribe therapeutic exercises for muscle and channel imbalances that have directly contributed to the patient's injury. This course will teach important skills to prescribe exercises in the management of their patient’s health care. Exercising different body parts simultaneously in specific and coordinated motions activates the myofascial jingjin so that form and function can align. The practitioner will learn to integrate acupuncture protocols with exercise prescription, including intra-dermal needle prescriptions on the Extraordinary Vessel master points to alleviate discomfort, increase proprioception and enhance clinical outcomes.
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July 24, 2021 - 8am PDT, 11am EDT (4 hrs)
Introduction to PACE I. Triplanar approach.Discussion of spinal bends, offsets and vertebral fixations affecting functional movement. -
July 24, 2021 - 1pm PDT, 4pm EDT (4 hrs)
Discussion of spinal bends, offsets and vertebral fixations affecting functional movement.Exercises for the spinal imbalances. Extraordinary vessel points to enhance treatment. -
July 25, 2021 - 8am PDT, 11am EDT (4 hrs)
Review of Day 1. Introduction of lateral view of spinal functional movementLateral view of spinal functional movement. Sinew channels affected. -
July 25, 2021 - 1pm PDT, 4pm EDT (4 hrs)
Exercises for the spinal imbalances. Extraordinary vessel points to enhance treatment.Exercises for the spinal imbalances. Extraordinary vessel points to enhance treatment. Question and answer
Your Teachers
Ian Armstrong
Ian is an experienced teacher of both the Treatment of Orthopedic Disorders (TOD) and Advanced TOD classes at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and current supervisor at the RIMAC center at the University of California San Diego where he supervises acupuncture students in treatment of UCSD collegiate athletes working alongside the athletic trainers.
Matt Callison
Matt Callison is a renowned instructor and published author of the Motor Points and Acupuncture Meridians Chart and quintessential texts such as the Motor Point Index (MPI) Reference Guide and Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has over 27 years of experience in sports medicine and acupuncture.
Brian Lau
Brian Lau, AP, CSMA, is certified in both Sports Medicine Acupuncture and Structural Integration. He has been on faculty since 2013 with the Sports Medicine Acupuncture Certification (SMAC) program, where he teaches anatomy and physiology, assessment and treatment of the channel sinews (jingjin), and myofascial release.
July 27, 2021
Embodying Life: Therapeutic Strategies in Person-Centered Collaborative Care
Embodying Life: Therapeutic Strategies in Person-Centered Collaborative Care
with Mitch Stargrove
July 27, 2021
7pm PDT, 10pm EDT
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In Embodying Life we look at contrasting worldviews and approaches in medicine from historical and clinical perspectives. In particular, the three worlds mythophysiology of Chinese medicine provides a guide to observing living systems and sets the stage for understanding modern systems theory and its clinical application. The Therapeutic Strategy Map and the 4Cs Collaborative Care system offer operative models for cultivating the therapeutic relationship, facilitating self-healing in patients, and framing relationships within multidisciplinary medical interventions.
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July 27, 2021 - 7pm PDT, 10pm EDT (2 hrs)
Contrasting traditions of healing and medicine in the WestChinese physiology and Systems Analysis of Meta-PhysiologyTherapeutic Strategy Maps: 3x3 Map of frames and levelsPerson-Centered Collaborative Care
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Mitch Stargrove
Mitchell Stargrove is an acupuncturist and naturopathic physician in Oregon and practices with Dr. Lori Beth Stargrove at A WellSpring of Natural Health. Drs. Mitch and Lori teach therapeutic strategies in person-centered collaborative care, host the GaiaStar Temple, and coordinate The Blue Lotus Mystery School as they explore embodied methods of self-healing, cocreativity and respectful living.
August 13-15, 2021
FSOMA Conference 2021
In-Person & Virtual
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This year's Florida State Oriental Medical Association Conference will be available in two formats: In-Person in Florida and one Online/Virtual track through Net of Knowledge.
The FSOMA conference is known for bringing you high quality Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine classes with immediately usable clinical information. In addition, there are some exceptional rates available for State Association Members.
If you are interested in attending Online only, check out the "Live or Virtual Option" in the schedule.
Visit the conference website for more information and registration!
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August 13, 2021 - 6am PDT, 9am EDT (3 hrs)
Healing the Brain: Chinese Medicine's Neurology Tradition (Brendan Kelly) -
August 13, 2021 - 11am PDT, 2pm EDT (2 hrs)
Treating the Emotions with 5-Elements (Michael Kowalski) -
August 14, 2021 - 6am PDT, 9am EDT (3 hrs)
Compounding Custom Formulas Effectively - Part I (Christine Chang) -
August 14, 2021 - 11am PDT, 2pm EDT (2 hrs)
Compounding Custom Formulas Effectively - Part II (Christine Chang) -
August 15, 2021 - 6am PDT, 9am EDT (3 hrs)
Mitigating Food Allergies (Xiu Min Li) -
August 15, 2021 - 10am PDT, 1pm EDT (2 hrs)
Diving Medicine Acupuncture EENT (Janneke Vermuelen)
August 18, 2021
Treating Foot Injury and Pain
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Treating Foot Injury and Pain is designed for the orthopedic and sports acupuncturist. This course emphasizes diagnosis and assessment along with creative treatment plans and choice of points based upon anatomical factors. While emphasizing only the most common foot injuries and pain syndromes, these easy-to-understand approaches result in increased clinical effectiveness and confidence. The following structures are covered in this three-hour course:
(1) The achilles tendon. Highlights: Threading the achilles tendon.
(2) The achilles bursae.
(3) Plantar fasciitis and fasciiosis. With the important addition of the abductor hallucis muscle.
(4) The talar joint and sprained ankle. Highlights:Treating the ankle at the talar sinus at GB 40.
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August 18, 2021 - 12pm PDT, 3pm EDT (3 hrs)
Presentation of didactic material.Video of demonstrationSummary. Question and Answer
Your Teacher
Whitfield Reaves
In practice for over 30 years, Whitfield Reaves, OMD, L.Ac., specializes in the field of sports medicine. Being in the forefront of the acupuncture sports medicine field, Whitfield's experience includes working with athletes at the 1984 LA Olympic Games and other sport competitions; an author, he teaches internationally as well.
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Past Free Events
Recording
from December 1, 2020
New and Creative Treatments for the Plantar Fascia
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New and Creative Treatments for the Plantar Fascia
with Whitfield Reaves
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from December 1, 2020
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Join Whitfield Reaves to learn how to diagnose this common source of foot pain, and treat both plantar fasciitis as well as the more current condition often called plantar fasciosis. They are different conditions, need differentiation, and there are several creative and precise treatments that can assist clinically. The practitioner needs to understand how to target the tissues of the fascia as well as including the all important abductor hallucis muscle. Often left out of heel pain treatments, this muscle to the big toe plays a significant role in both pain and the healing process. The practitioner, with this information, can find some more gentle and relatively pain free point combinations to use in treating plantar pain.
After the lecture, we will have an audience Q&A session with Whitfield. This session is designed to make sure each practitioner is clear on the precise treatment needed in plantar fasciitis and plantar fasciosis. But we intend to open up the rest of this free webinar to all questions. "Ask us anything", on any topic of sports acupuncture. This should be fun!
For our friends in timezones that can not join us live, feel free to register to watch the recording.
Your Teacher
Whitfield Reaves
In practice for over 30 years, Whitfield Reaves, OMD, L.Ac., specializes in the field of sports medicine. Being in the forefront of the acupuncture sports medicine field, Whitfield's experience includes working with athletes at the 1984 LA Olympic Games and other sport competitions; an author, he teaches internationally as well.
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from November 12, 2020
Why Amino Acids Are An Acupuncturist’s Best Friend
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Why Amino Acids Are An Acupuncturist’s Best Friend
with Carolyn Reuben
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from November 12, 2020
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Nutrition is within the scope of practice of California acupuncturists but in our schools we are not trained to use individual amino acids and a pro-recovery diet to quickly stop cravings for drugs, behaviors, and food. Yet, decades of research and empirical evidence support these quick and efficient treatment modalities. Meanwhile, during COVID-19, citizens isolated and quarantined are eating and drinking like never before. Sales of alcohol have increased 55% this year compared to last year at this time and the Mayo Clinic calls the result of our new compulsive eating habits "the quarantine 15".
This presentation reminds participants that their patients may not list overeating or over drinking or over drugging on the intake form but a great number of them ARE in the throes of addiction. Food addiction, alone, is the most dangerous and most common addiction in the United States, causing obesity and diabetes at epic levels in younger and younger individuals. On top of that anxiety and depression are epidemic and most commonly treated with pharmaceuticals such as SSRIs, SNRIs, and highly addictive benzodiazepines. Yet we as acupuncturists have at our fingertips not only excellent acupuncture points as a response, but also useful nutritional tools in amino acids and menu choices. I will detail each of the five amino acids that are useful to respond to patient needs, with results apparent within fifteen minutes, and offer the simple questionnaire that helps the practitioner figure out what the patient's most pressing needs are at that time. The same questionnaire helps both patient and practitioner figure out what dose is needed and when the supplements can be stopped.
Your Teacher
Carolyn Reuben
Carolyn began using acupuncture for addiction treatment in substance abuse treatment programs in 1992 in Sacramento, CA. Carolyn has lectured at state and national conferences, written magazine articles and is the founding director of the Alliance for Addiction Solutions.
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from October 14, 2020
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
An Introduction to German Auricular Therapy
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
An Introduction to German Auricular Therapy
with SaTerra Vishnu and Frank Yurasek
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from October 14, 2020
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Hosted by the Florida State Oriental Medical Association, this is the first of a 3-part series, (culminating with a three-day live seminar), dedicated to empowering you with an evidence-based, results-oriented, Veteran Acupuncture System of Care. Initiated in 2012 with the treatment of hundreds of homeless veterans at the semi-annual (Summer and Winter 'Stand Downs") held at the respective North and Southside National Guard Armories Chicago, Dr.'s Vishnu and Yurasek, created these evidence-based protocols providing "real-time" results to those vets in chronic pain and suffering. These clinical efforts culminated in a poster and presentation to the World Federation of Acupuncture Societies in Toronto, Canada, 2016......"Where Have All The Flowers Gone".
Your Teachers
SaTerra Vishnu
SaTerra Vishnu, DOM, AP has over 30 years of clinical experience. A 1986 graduate of the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine in Chicago, IL where he obtained his degrees in Acupuncture, Herbs and Manipulative Therapy. Since then he has had extensive training in BioElectrical Diagnostics and German Homotoxicology using bioenergetic equipment to find underlying pathogens.
Frank Yurasek
Frank Yurasek, PhD, LAc, received Oriental Medicine training from Midwest College of Oriental Medicine 30 years ago and trained at the Guang Zhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is the Acupuncture Clinical Advisor at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, National University of Health Sciences, and the director of Acupuncture, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
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from May 7, 2020
An Introduction to Auricular Medicine
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An Introduction to Auricular Medicine
with TruthSayer
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from May 7, 2020
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Auricular Medicine is a specialty within Traditional Chinese Medicine that has its roots in the Huang Di Nei Jing and some of its branches in Western Medicine. Using the micro-system of the Auricle, Auricular Medicine has developed into an incredibly sophisticated system of both diagnosis and treatment of all bio-systems of the body. The diagnosis is remarkably comprehensive and accurate. Without a patient interview, or history, the examination alone provides the doctor with more information than the patient’s intake paperwork. Treatment can relieve acute pain within seconds. Dr. TruthSayer’s introduction includes many interesting cases from her clinical practice.
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TruthSayer
Dr. TruthSayer, DAOM, Dip.OM, LAc, LMFT, is a President Emeritus of the California State Oriental Medical Association, and a former faculty member of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She is Founder and Chief Faculty of the Institute of Auricular and Transcendental Medicine and has lectured around the world on auricular topics.
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from April 30, 2020
An Exploration of Love And It's Threoretical Foundations Through the Lense of Classical Chinese Medicine
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An Exploration of Love And It's Threoretical Foundations Through the Lense of Classical Chinese Medicine
with Felice Dunas
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from April 30, 2020
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“Love” is an imperative for healthy living. “Lack of love” dramatically affects health and is a treatable condition. In this presentation Dr Dunas will introduce the qualities and complex energetic make up of love. She will address the following questions: How does the capacity to love develop in patients as they go through each jing cycle into maturity? How is love defined and what historical reference points help us understand the definition of love according to Chinese medicine? How does culture help and hinder patients as they create, experience and give love? How can you, as a practitioner, enhance a patient’s experience of love, even during globally stressful times? How do energetic imbalances and clinical health problems affect a patient’s capacity to love? What is "false love" and why is it so prevalent in our world? What happens energetically when we fall in love or fall out of love? What are the energetic patterns that make up heartsickness? How does love heal and how can we help those under our care thrive with the capasity to love during stress?
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Felice Dunas
Felice Dunas, Ph.D., is an international speaker, consultant, intimacy educator, and holistic healer, who has used her understanding of behavior and the human body to help clients for over 40 years. An author, she has been the recipient of the 'Acupuncturist of the Year' award.
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from April 26, 2020
Flower Essences for Emotional Health During Crisis
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Flower Essences for Emotional Health During Crisis
with Sharon Loerzer
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from April 26, 2020
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Because a person's emotional state impacts on their immunity, as practitioners it's useful having as many tools as possible to help a person cope with fear and anxiety. Expand your clinical repertoire by incorporating Flower Essences into your treatment protocols for the treatment of mental health and resilience building. Safe and effective, flower remedies are easy for patients to purchase and can be used at home. As well as extending the benefits of your acupuncture treatments, flower remedies are a safe alternative to pharmaceutical interventions.
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Sharon Loerzer
Sharon Loerzer is the founder of the Family Evolution Centre which has helped over 2,500 children, teenagers and their families over the past 25 years. Sharon is passionate about helping adults to see through the eyes of children so that a clear and empathetic bond can form outside of traditional power struggles.
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from April 20, 2020
Coronavirus Covid-19, Childhood Vaccinations and Immunity
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Coronavirus Covid-19, Childhood Vaccinations and Immunity
with Julian Scott
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from April 20, 2020
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In this exclusive live webinar, Pediatric Acupuncture expert Dr Julian Scott shares his views on the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. Learn about immunity and Lingering Pathogenic Factors from a TCM and western medicine perspective and enjoy personal insights from one of the forefathers of contemporary acupuncture. Informed by his forty year career working with children and campaigning about childhood vaccinations, this webinar is a must see for parents and clinicians.
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Julian Scott
Dr Julian Scott is the world's most eminent Paediatric Acupuncture Specialist with 40 years experience treating babes and children with acupuncture, dietary advice and western herbs. He is author of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Children, Natural Medicine for Children and Natural Medicine for Women, and Acupuncture in the Treatment of Eyes.
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from April 19, 2020
Korean Hand Therapy: Safe, Low Cost Treatments for Yourself and Your Clients
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Korean Hand Therapy: Safe, Low Cost Treatments for Yourself and Your Clients
with Dan Lobash
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from April 19, 2020
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Keep your clinics open! (Online.) Dr. Dan Lobash showcases some fast an effective treatments that can be done entirely on the hand! KHT provides safe, fast, and low cost treatments. Dan will also be sharing his free manuals with everyone for both client and practitioner.
Your Teacher
Dan Lobash
Dr. Dan Lobash, Ph.D., L.Ac., practices KHT (Korean Hand Therapy) and Traditional Oriental Medicine and has been in practicing for over 30 years. He has taught KHT seminars internationally and is published in several TCM journals.
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Shen Series - Course 3
Emotions: How to Address the Jumbled Movements of Qi
with Elisa Rossi
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To us westerners it looks as a reductive over-simplification that in Chinese medical tradition there are only 5 or 7 emotions and that they do not seem to consider all the other sentiments, as hate, envy, jealousy, attachment, aggressiveness, shame, fault, regret, avarice, etc.
It is the result of recognizing the essential, of going to the root, to the core, into the heart of the primary emotions.
Chinese Medicine sees emotions as physiological events, a response of our qi and shen to what comes from the outside world. But excessive emotions are harmful: “Desires without limits and worries without end consume jing, coagulate ying qi and expel wei qi; then the shen leaves and the disease is not curable” (Suwen, ch.14) and “When euphoria and anger are not regulated, they will injure the organs, when organs are injured, illness originates in the yin” (Lingshu, ch.66).
Emotions, internal movements, affect qi. If qi does not move properly we can have qi stagnation, blood stasis, accumulation of dampness and phlegm, transformation into Fire and internal Wind, etc. Yin, blood, and jing are injured.
Sadness consumes qi, euphoria scatters the shen, thought and worry knot the flow of qi, anger rises it up, fear does not contain it.
How to recognize the single emotions in patients and in the therapeutic encounter.
Detailed clinical examples help to recognize different patterns and how to use the “shen-axis” points combination.
Learning Objectives
- How to recognize emotions in patients and in the therapeutic encounter.
- Possible use of the “shen-axis” points combination in clinical cases.
- How Chinese Medicine considers emotions.
- When emotions may become pathological and what disorders in the qi system may happen.
Your Teacher
Elisa Rossi
Elisa Rossi PhD, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Acupuncturist, and Licensed Psychotherapist. In 1994 Elisa co-founded the School of TCM “MediCina” and from 2006 she is member of Milan Medical Board for Non-Conventional Medicine. Elisa has written numerous books and has lectured extensively around the world.
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This course looks at how to do a proper chart and examines some of the common mistakes made when charting. Based on the instructors experience with medical charting and over 12 years of clinical supervising, seeing all the mistakes and studying what makes a great chart. In addition, this course will discuss medicolegal aspects of SOAP notes as well as the SOAPE note. This course is a must take for anyone who wishes to protect themselves legally as well give the best care to their patients.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to employ the SOAP and SOAPE style of charting.
- Understand how to avoid common errors in charting.
- Be able to identify medicolegal aspects of proper charting and the consequences of improper charting.
Your Teacher
Greg Sperber
Dr. Greg Sperber is an author and also holds a Masters and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He is a professor at PCOM and speaks internationally on TCM business and drug-herb interactions.
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SMAC Webinar Program - Module III (Lower Extremity) - Course 4
Postural Assessment and Corrective Exercise
with Ian Armstrong, Brian Lau, and Matt Callison
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* You can normally get a discount when you buy a series whole!
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Instructor: Ian Armstrong
Assisted by Brian Lau and Matt Callison
This 2-day cutting-edge course will teach the practitioner how to assess postural dysfunction and prescribe therapeutic exercises for postural, muscle and channel imbalances that have directly contributed to the patient's musculoskeletal injury. This course will teach the acupuncturist important skills to prescribe specific exercises in the management of their patient’s health care. Exercising different body parts simultaneously in specific and coordinated motions activates the myofascial sinew channels so that form and function can align. The practitioner will learn to integrate acupuncture protocols with exercise prescription, including how to use intra-dermal needle point prescriptions on the Extraordinary Vessel master points to alleviate discomfort, increase proprioception and enhance clinical outcomes.
This PACE course will build from what was taught in PACE (Module II) that focused on the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex and its relationship to the lower extremity and foot/ankle complex.
The remainder of this class will get the practitioner ready for information taught in Module IV: The Neck, Shoulder and Upper Extremity. The practitioner will learn to assess, through static and functional assessment techniques, postural disparities and associated muscle imbalances that can cause injury to these regions of the body.
Participants will learn how to effectively prescribe therapeutic exercises that will help balance ribcage, neck, shoulder and upper extremity imbalances.
Learning Objectives
- The practitioner will learn to integrate acupuncture protocols with exercise, including intra-dermal needle prescriptions on the Extraordinary Vessel master points to alleviate discomfort, increase proprioception and enhance clinical outcomes.
- The practitioner will learn visual assessment skills for postural imbalances.
- Participants will learn how to effectively prescribe therapeutic exercises that will help balance the foot and ankle disparities such as pes planus and neck shoulder imbalances such as forward head, forward shoulder, cervical rotation.
Your Teachers
Ian Armstrong
Ian is an experienced teacher of both the Treatment of Orthopedic Disorders (TOD) and Advanced TOD classes at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and current supervisor at the RIMAC center at the University of California San Diego where he supervises acupuncture students in treatment of UCSD collegiate athletes working alongside the athletic trainers.
Matt Callison
Matt Callison is a renowned instructor and published author of the Motor Points and Acupuncture Meridians Chart and quintessential texts such as the Motor Point Index (MPI) Reference Guide and Sports Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach Combining Sports Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has over 27 years of experience in sports medicine and acupuncture.
Brian Lau
Brian Lau, AP, CSMA, is certified in both Sports Medicine Acupuncture and Structural Integration. He has been on faculty since 2013 with the Sports Medicine Acupuncture Certification (SMAC) program, where he teaches anatomy and physiology, assessment and treatment of the channel sinews (jingjin), and myofascial release.
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Mind, Money and Marketing
Things that work in a crisis and beyond.
with Ward Willison
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Are you prepared for a crisis such as a worldwide pandemic in your clinic? This video will show you ways to succeed now and in the future. This course is brought to you free and with a free CEU.
Mental toughness, grit, and resilience are key components to hanging in long enough to win. Learn how to maintain perspective and get it back once lost. Adrenal response can take over with negative stress. Ward has extensive knowledge and training in these subjects and will walk you through how to work with and manage them.
Businesses that run out of money have to shut. Ward has experience as a financial planner and he teaches the building blocks of a financial plan, leading to financial independence.
Peek into Ward's well-received “Practice Management Series”. Classify your clinic and what you need to focus on.
Long game marketing is the key. Many focus on the short game, which is a reason most clinics close. Examples of both are taught.
Learn how to take your clinic online from scripts, what you can do; web services to use and what not to say.
Ward’s shows his clinical numbers for the past few years and what a Covid-19 lockdown did to his clinic once it reopened, what changes he made and why, and thoughts of how his practice changed post Covid-19 lockdown.
Ward is joined by Dr. John Stan for a discussion on new practitioners, the value of Toastmasters, things he did to stay in business, and much more.
Join Ward in helping you to success in your life and practice.
Learning Objectives
- Learn Marketing strategies during stressful events and how to connect to patients and win them for life.
- Understand the basic financial building blocks to financial independence and how to build a simple financial plan.
- Manage and understand some of the emotions and cognition drives in stressful times (why do we freak out and what to do about it).
- What has worked since returning to work and what to avoid at all cost.
Your Teacher
Ward Willison
Success in Life and Practice—join Ward on a trip to your success: a business career, a near death accident, and apprenticing for 10 years with a master. His clinic does 2500+ clients with 3 months off a year, since 2008. Learn the processes that work!
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Management of Headaches in Clinical Practice
Acupuncture for Headaches
with Hamid Montakab
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Headaches constitute one of the most common patient complaints as about 70% of people have experienced headaches and about 15-20% suffer regularly from migraines. Although acupuncture has been proven one of the best therapy methods, still the Chinese diagnosis and treatment remains at times a dilemma for the practitioner, as it involves, quite frequently a combination of patterns.
Learning Objectives
- External headaches: classification, diagnosis and treatment.
- Treatment principles.
- Physio-pathology and diagnosis of headaches.
- The energetics of the head: overview of channels; head and neck points.
- Internal headaches: classification, diagnosis and treatment.
Your Teacher
Hamid Montakab
Hamid Montakab graduated from the Medical School of Paris, completed an education in acupuncture in France and in China. He practiced in the US and later founded the Academy of Chinese Healing Arts in Switzerland and was co-founder and president of the Swiss Professional Organization for TCM.
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Paediatric Masterclass: Non-Needle Methods for Paediatric Mental Health
A deep dive into non-invasive protocols that really work in the paediatric clinic
with Rebecca Avern
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Mental health issues are the most common reason that children and teenagers come for acupuncture treatment. Many of these children are vulnerable and sensitive and are therefore not ready to accept needles. It is essential to have a wide-ranging tool kit so that we can deliver the treatment they need in other ways. In this four part webinar series, we will explore in detail the use of the following non-needle protocols and how they can be used in clinic to support a child’s mental health:
- Moxa
- Cupping
- Gua sha
- Low level laser therapy
- Shonishin
- E-stim
You may be familiar with the use of modalities such as moxibustion and cupping in your adult practice, but unaware of the ways they can effectively be applied in the treatment of paediatric conditions, specifically mental/emotional problems such as anxiety and depression.
This webinar has a practical focus, and will enable you to immediately start applying what you have learned effectively in your paediatric clinic. There will be a chance to ask questions, have discussion and bring case histories.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the key pathologies seen in paediatric mental health conditions
- Understand the basic theory behind the use of a wide range of non-invasive methods in the treatment of paediatric mental health conditions
- Learn how to safely and effectively use a wide range of non-invasive methods in the treatment of paediatric mental health conditions
Your Teacher
Rebecca Avern
Rebecca Avern is a senior lecturer, clinical supervisor and teaching clinic director at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading, UK. In 2012, she founded an acupuncture centre for the treatment of children in Oxford – the Panda Clinic - and her clinical work is now entirely with children. She teaches paediatrics online and at undergraduate and post-graduate level.
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Shen Series - Course 2
Shen, Hun, Po: Classical Texts and their Contemporary Clinical Application
with Elisa Rossi
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The course focuses on what may be puzzling concepts, starting from accurate references to the Classics, to the exploring of contemporary clinical use.
We explore shen in many contexts: Shen as extra-ordinary, that which is beyond yin and yang, does not belong to this world of the ten thousands—the world of differentiation, of shapes, of transformation; Shen as the most subtle of the three treasure (shen-qi-jing); Shen as vitality/life (in eyes, pulse, tongue, etc); Its functions (cognitive functions, consciousness, wisdom and intuitive knowledge, integration of the emotions, perception); Its significance in individuals and its relation with the psycho-emotional disorders.
We also explore the Hun and the Po, a couple whose meaning and functions may be vague and confusing. We explore their relation with jing and shen and what is meant by: “hun enters po and po holds hun”, “they are the light and the dark side of the moon”, “hun is the flame of po; po is the root of hun”, “po as remembering on the inside, hun as governing movement and action”.
We also examine their clinical use by looking at disorders in which patients suffer of conditions as a lost contact with reality, anorexia, obsessive thought, somatic disorders, violent behavior, etc. Clinical examples will be discussed.
Learning Objectives
- Possible interpretations in contemporary practice, recognizing their clinical use in different categories of disorders
- How hun and po are described in the Classics and understand their significance in individuals
- How shen is described in the Classics and its function in individuals
Your Teacher
Elisa Rossi
Elisa Rossi PhD, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Acupuncturist, and Licensed Psychotherapist. In 1994 Elisa co-founded the School of TCM “MediCina” and from 2006 she is member of Milan Medical Board for Non-Conventional Medicine. Elisa has written numerous books and has lectured extensively around the world.
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Management of Seasonal and Perennial Allergies in Clinical Practice
Acupuncture for the treatment of respiratory allergies and hay fever.
with Hamid Montakab
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Allergies, in particular hay fever, represent the fastest rising pathology around the world. Inherited “Atopic” conditions affect children at an early age and may even prove quite handicapping in some cases.
Chinese medicine and acupuncture in particular are quite effective in managing not only the symptoms during the acute phase, but also in treating the deeper roots.
This webinar covers:
(1) The head energetics involving the sensory portals, ear, nose, throat and the eyes
(2) Physio-pathology, diagnostic and therapeutic principles
(3) Practical strategies for the treatment of: allergic rhinitis; allergic asthma
Learning Objectives
- Acupuncture protocols for the treatment of the acute phase and the allergic condition.
- Asthmatic condition. Zang-Fu patterns. Treatment of the acute phase. Case studies. Sources
- Inherited (Atopic) conditions and the Extraordinary vessels. Prevention
- Allergic disease. Chinese physio-pathology. Notion of "hyper-reactivity". Notion of "de-synchronization". Seasonal and perennial allergies. Inherited (Atopic) conditions. Smptom analysis
- Exploring the head energetics involving the sensory portals, ear, nose, throat and the eyes; Primary channels involved; role of the Luo; Divergent and Extraordinary Vessels.
Your Teacher
Hamid Montakab
Hamid Montakab graduated from the Medical School of Paris, completed an education in acupuncture in France and in China. He practiced in the US and later founded the Academy of Chinese Healing Arts in Switzerland and was co-founder and president of the Swiss Professional Organization for TCM.
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Military Pingheng (Balance) Acupuncture
38 Effective Points for Pain and Common Conditions
with Hui Zhang
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PHA was firstly popularized in military health care services. Thanks to its fast effectiveness, requirements of few needles (mostly only one needle), convenience and safety, it was honored as “Community Health Promotion Program” by China’s Ministry of Health in 2005 and other rewards. After over 30 years’ development, PHA has gained attraction from doctors all around China, not only in general hospitals in big cities but also in primary clinics in remote areas.
Mechanism: originates on the theories of meridians and nerves. It’s the combination of Heart-Shen Controlling in CM and Nervous Regulating.
Characteristics: Single Point, Fast Inserting and Withdrawing, Instant Effect, Emphasis on Deqi, Points Name, Easily Understood and Memorized, Movement and Stimulation, Safety
Principle of Selecting Points: For certain conditions, specific location is selected, e.g. blood sugar reducing point, insomnia point. For most of the pain points, if it happens only on one side of the body, acupoint is selected contra-laterally i.e. left-right or upper-lower. For example, neck pain point on the left side is used to treat the pain on the right neck.
Categorization: 1) body pain points/external pain, 2) organ pain points/internal pain and 3) non-pain points.
There are 9 points located on head and neck, 11 on upper limbs, 3 on chest and abdomen, 4 on back, and 11 on lower limbs.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the background and features of PHA
- Acupoints for body pain
- Acupoints for non-pain disorders
Your Teacher
Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang, Ph.D., is a Chinese Medicine Doctor, Educator, and Researcher. Having trained at the Chengdu University of TCM in China, he works in Denmark. Hui lectures regularly in Denmark, Germany, Austria, and China.
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Improving Function of the Gut-Brain Axis with Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs
with Ayla Wolf
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What does Chinese medicine have to offer in the way of improving both brain function and gut function? In this course you will learn exactly that, along with the neuroscience behind the brain’s top-down modulation of gut function, and the involvement of the autonomic nervous system in digestive health. The connection between dysautonomia and Ying-Wei Disharmonies will be explained in the context of gut dysfunction. The use of acupuncture from a theoretical and modern neuroscience perspective will be provided.
This course covers:
• Regions of the brain involved in gut function
• Clinical presentation of dysautonomia
• Dysautonomia and Ying-Wei Disharmonies
• How to assess the autonomic nervous system
• The use of acupuncture and Chinese herbs for improving autonomic nervous system function
• Case studies
• Clinical gems
Learning Objectives
- Learn the connection between dysautonomia and Ying Wei Disharmonies
- Learn the neuroanatomy involved in the autonomic nervous system
- Learn applications of Classical Chinese herbal formulas for digestive disorders
Your Teacher
Ayla Wolf
Dr. Wolf is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine specializing in neurological disorders, chronic pain, and concussion recovery. She is a faculty member of the Carrick Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation.
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Systematic Acupuncture for Back Pain
The 8 step protocol for diagnosis and strategic treatment approach for back pain
with Daun Jeong
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The systematic acupuncture for back pain is a crash course for acupuncturists treating back pain, the most frequent disease in the acupuncture clinic.
It consists of a basic concept for comprehensive diagnosis, pragmatic treatment procedures, and expected response of patients.
To make the diagnostic process simple and reproducible, Daun Jeong introduces 8 step protocol of physical exam for back pain. Even though you are not familiar with anatomy, pathophysiology, kinesiology, and neurology, you can establish your treatment manual after this course.
It contains the drills to distinguish the severe case for referral, to diagnose, treat, and set up a prognosis based on the information you got from the proper diagnostic exam.
Moreover, the concise manual for common disorders is presented, including acute sprain, chronic back pain, disc lesion, and spinal stenosis.
Learning Objectives
- Be able to answer the question "What is the problem?"
- Be able to answer the question "Why did it happen?"
- Be able to answer the question "How can I treat the patient?"
Your Teacher
Daun Jeong
Daun Jeong, a Korean medical doctor, and a licensed acupuncturist is the founder and CEO of Beyond Acupuncture Institute. He is providing practical courses on acupuncture for back pain, shoulder, knee, neck, and peripheral joints.
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Shen Series - Course 1
An Introduction: Classic and Contemporary Approach to Psycho-emotional Disorders
with Elisa Rossi
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Elisa Rossi is a practicing acupuncturist of 40 years as well as an MD and Jungian Psychotherapist, with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Having spent 3 months in China in 1983 researching for shen-hun-po, and subsequently publishing her book “Shen” in 2002, it is clear to Elisa that her interest is in the internal side of human being. And Chinese Medicine is an incredible tool to look at these forces, and to do something about their disorders. It can give some meaning to conditions that may appear confused and confusing, some help to whom is suffering.
Some patients speak directly of anxiety or depression, while others express their emotional discomfort through pain, chest oppression, abdominal swelling, fatigue, insomnia, etc. There are times when the “emotional illness” shows itself clearly, others in which it seeps inside in even more alarming ways. Using acupuncture we do not to have to separate emotional and somatic levels.
This introduction about shen and the 4 courses that spring from it are based on careful reference to the Classics, so to be able to be creative and effective in our daily practice.
Clinical cases are discussed all along, with their doubts and failures, so to connect to real experience.
Contents: meaning of shen, hun, po and use in our practice; the role of emotions and how to recognize them; “psycho-emotional” diagnostic patterns and treatment guidelines; “psycho-emotional” classical signs and syndromes. Complete and clear handouts.
Learning Objectives
- An introductory exploration of: the role of emotions and how to recognize them in the patient and in the therapeutic relationship
- An introductory exploration of: reference to hun and po in clinical disorders
- An introductory exploration of: shen, hun, po in the classics
Your Teacher
Elisa Rossi
Elisa Rossi PhD, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Acupuncturist, and Licensed Psychotherapist. In 1994 Elisa co-founded the School of TCM “MediCina” and from 2006 she is member of Milan Medical Board for Non-Conventional Medicine. Elisa has written numerous books and has lectured extensively around the world.
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The Encounter with the Patient: Sparkles and Traps
The main issues in the clinical relationship to improve therapeutic results
with Elisa Rossi
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Please Note: This course is presented in English and is verbally translated into German during the presentation.
The workshop focuses on the process of co-building a working alliance.
We discuss some main features of the therapeutic relationship: the structure of communication and the emotional, mental, physical space of the treatment.
We see how to deal with:
the daily management of time, requests, money
the dynamics of empathy and neutrality
the deep movements stirred up by the use needles
the expression of hidden or violent emotions
the yin attitude of “being there”
We work with illnesses and suffering, it is a delicate matter.
The encounter of patient and practitioner requires a specific attention.
To improve therapeutic results we need not to be submerged by what takes place inside the relationship.
The classics give a great attention to it – quotations will be discussed in the workshop.
Clinical cases are given throughout all the issues.
Learning Objectives
- Refer to the Classics and Recognize deep relational movements in given clinical cases
- Paths to deal with dysfunctional behaviours
- Learn how to address the clinical relationship in daily practice. Deal with questions about ethics, communication, clinical interview. Understand how to handle interpersonal issues that arise in the clinic.
- Cope with the therapeutic setting, empathy, expression of emotions, silence and words. Not be invaded or drifted away by what may happen during the treatment. Use a yin attitude of “being there”
- Why we have chosen this profession, what deep needs it responds to, how we deal with it all
Your Teacher
Elisa Rossi
Elisa Rossi PhD, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Acupuncturist, and Licensed Psychotherapist. In 1994 Elisa co-founded the School of TCM “MediCina” and from 2006 she is member of Milan Medical Board for Non-Conventional Medicine. Elisa has written numerous books and has lectured extensively around the world.
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Chronic Disease: The Initiating Causes and Downstream Effects
Beyond symptomatic treatment; looking at root causes.
with Butch Levy
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The goal of this course is to provide a broad overview of the root causes of chronic disease seen today in modern societies. Root causes of disease come from our toxic environment, exposure to infectious agents, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal disruption and imbalanced immunity. These insults create chronic inflammation and oxidative stress that damage cellular function, promoting chronic illness. This discussion will review each causative factor, its impact on health, and current approaches to treatment. It will integrate treatments used in Chinese medicine, Naturopathic medicine and Western medicine.
Regardless of the paradigms you offer in your practice, one approach is often limited in therapy. Having multiple skill sets to approach a complex problem offers greater opportunity for restoring health. This course will bridge the East and West to provide a holistic perspective on chronic illness, with clinical pearls that can be applied right away.
Learning Objectives
- Understand current diagnostic approaches to uncovering these influences.
- Learn about the bodies response to imbalance and damage with inflammation and oxidative stress, and recognizing they are the pathway to diseases.
- Become familiar with the several causative factors that contribute to the development of chronic disease.
- Learn about treatment options to remediate each issue.
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Butch Levy
Dr. Levy is a primary care physician with twenty-eight years of Chinese Medicine experience. He uses his diverse skill set to provide expertise in topics including age-related cognitive decline, supportive care for cancer patients, auto-immune diseases, and chronic illness.
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Kiiko Matsumoto is an internationally recognized Master in Acupuncture. She is a Chinese Medicine scholar and an author of multiple texts on Classical Acupuncture. These texts include Hara diagnosis, Extra Meridians, and her own books, Clinical Strategies Volumes 1 and 2. She has developed her own style of acupuncture, Kiiko Matsumoto Style (KMS), that is being translated into multiple languages. This class highlights her skill in protocols for chronic pain including protocols for trauma, painful scars, neuropathy, painful veins, inflamed nerves, diabetes, osteoarthritis, chondritis and abdominal pain.
This is an advanced course for those who have already studied in person with Kiiko.
Learning Objectives
- To further studies in Japanese acupuncture and Moxa, especially Kiiko Matsumoto Style (KMS) directly from the founder.
- The objectives of this class are to expose acupuncture practitioners to innovative ways to diagnose and treat patient's pain.
- To examine case studies which illustrate methods for immediate resolution of pain.
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Kiiko Matsumoto
Kiiko Matsumoto is a licensed acupuncturist, internationally recognized for her scholarly work interpreting the Chinese Classics and her unique and practical acupuncture style that integrates the work of important Japanese masters. An author on numerous acupuncture texts, she maintains a private practice in Boston and frequently lectures around the world.
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Safeguard Your Clinic Workspace Series 1 - Course 3
EMF Radiation
with Sue Nelson
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Overview
As a workplace concern, EMF Wireless radiation is not ‘on the radar’ for many TCM practitioners but it should be! Current safety standards continue to be based on outdated threshold limits for THERMAL-ONLY biological effects.
As a result, EMF Wireless devices have proliferated the planet with totally inappropriate emission levels. These levels fail to integrate the growing weight-of-evidence warnings about the disastrous NON-THERMAL health effects!
Lloyds of London – the biggest Insurance market in the world – will not accept liability for ‘Wi-Fi Injury’ associated with Wi-Fi devices. Lloyds has done its homework on both THERMAL and NON-THERMAL effects and thresholds.
National standards are far from unified, especially since the release of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Study in 2016. This crucial 10-year Study confirmed the causal link between tumours of the Brain and Heart and excessive exposure to 2G and 3G mobile phones. Now the world is facing the 5G threat which will add to the aggregate burden of EMF radiation from digital meters, routers, and wireless devices in the community.
EMF wavelengths cannot be effectively blocked but they can be avoided or have their impact lessened to a degree. TCM practitioners need to educate themselves on this urgent health and safety issue, even if it means learning new technical jargon and contradicting the public perception of safe-use technology. In this way, they have the chance to lead the health industry.
PLEASE NOTE: While this course does cover safety-related topics, it is not accredited by NCCAOM under the "Safety Category", but rather the "AOM-BIO" category.
Learning Objectives
- Understand why the Insurance companies refuse to indemnify ‘Wi-Fi’ Injury in the clinic workplace and elsewhere.
- Identify the historical landmarks underpinning the formation of THERMAL-only EMF Safety Standards in different countries.
- Understand the current international disparities in EMF Safety Standards.
- Be informed of the scientific and medical concerns surrounding the NON-THERMAL biological effects of EMF radiation.
- Obtain a template for clinic ‘risk management’ in terms of avoidance or mitigation strategies for minimising EMF exposure.
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Sue Nelson
After learning a traditional style of Chinese Medicine, Sue Nelson B.A, B.TCM has been in continuous clinical practice in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 3 decades. She uses an eclectic range of healing therapies and enjoys a country lifestyle. She has lectured at 2 Brisbane Acupuncture colleges.
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Safeguard Your Clinic Workspace Series 1 - Course 2
MIT Lung and Skin Allergen
with Sue Nelson
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Overview
Many TCM clinic practitioners may be unaware of the number of common usage products containing Methyl-Iso-Thiazolinone (MIT).
The use of MIT as a chemical water preservative since 2001 is out-of-control. It has been allowed to reach the absurdly high concentration of 100 parts per million (ppm) even after it’s mother product CMIT:MIT, with its much lower proportion of 15 ppm MIT, showed disturbingly high rates of Skin and Lung Allergies in exposed consumers.
MIT is out-of-control because it is in so many product categories. In 2001, MIT started as an industrial preservative in Paint. Unfortunately Allergy reports were ignored and MIT was then introduced to Cosmetics and Personal products in 2005. This was a disaster considering that Cosmetics and products such as Sunscreen, are LEAVE-ON products, absorbed directly into the Skin!
MIT is out-of-control because industry regulation is lacking. Paint manufacturers are allowed to ‘self-regulate’ the amount of MIT added to their Paints, with the result that exposure to Paint fumes accounts for 50% of all MIT-based Contact Dermatitis cases.
MIT is out-of-control because the medical screening test, the Patch Test, is applied to CMIT:MIT only, and not to MIT alone, leading to misdiagnosis. The main treatment for Allergic reactions - trigger avoidance – is impossible if patients have not been medically diagnosed properly. There needs to be a lot more public education about MIT so that people can select safer product substitutes.
PLEASE NOTE: While this course does cover safety-related topics, it is not accredited by NCCAOM under the "Safety Category", but rather the "AOM-BIO" category.
Learning Objectives
- Examine the management of this Delayed-type Hypersensitivity to obtain a protocol for product substitution and Allergen avoidance.
- Be informed of the concentration threshold changes to MIT, with reference to industry regulation since its release.
- Identify the large array of common usage products containing the highly Allergenic MIT preservative.
- Learn the aetiology of this Lung and Skin Allergen.
Your Teacher
Sue Nelson
After learning a traditional style of Chinese Medicine, Sue Nelson B.A, B.TCM has been in continuous clinical practice in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 3 decades. She uses an eclectic range of healing therapies and enjoys a country lifestyle. She has lectured at 2 Brisbane Acupuncture colleges.
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Safeguard Your Clinic Workspace Series 1 - Course 1
Moxa Smoke Inhalation
with Sue Nelson
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Overview
There are valid TCM industry concerns about the carcinogens emitted by ‘sidestream’ Moxa smoke. What are the effects of these carcinogens being inhaled by practitioners, staff members and patients – both short-term and long-term – in the closed-up confines of a clinic space?
Despite 2,500 years of therapeutic usage, Moxibustion cannot escape the modern scrutiny of all combustible smoke inhalation risks, due to the awareness created by Tobacco smoking fatalities.
Since the 1950s the ongoing Tobacco health crisis has prompted the refinement of research methods to confirm the causality between smoking – as in ‘active’ or ‘passive’ smoking - and Lung Cancer.
This course explores the types of research directed towards the analysis of Moxa smoke in the clinic setting, especially those reputable research methods borrowed from the Tobacco industry. It highlights the relative lack of Epidemiology studies as the major weak area in Moxa smoke research.
Mitigation methods are recommended for TCM practitioners using Moxibustion regularly in the workplace. But the main focus is on the modern thermal substitutes in the form of Infrared lamps and hand-held devices, for Moxa-averse practitioners wishing to follow the ‘precautionary principle’.
Learning Objectives
- Obtain a template for future ‘risk management' in terms of either mitigation strategies or modern thermal substitutes.
- Be able to identify the research methods used to confirm causality between Tobacco ‘smoking’ and Lung Cancer.
- Understand how the TCM industry can borrow from well-established causality studies to analyse the impacts of Moxa smoke inhalation in the workplace.
- Be informed of the industry concerns surrounding the inhalation of Moxa smoke in the clinic workspace.
Your Teacher
Sue Nelson
After learning a traditional style of Chinese Medicine, Sue Nelson B.A, B.TCM has been in continuous clinical practice in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 3 decades. She uses an eclectic range of healing therapies and enjoys a country lifestyle. She has lectured at 2 Brisbane Acupuncture colleges.
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This webinar by Dave Shipsey, author of “Mastering the Art of Abdominal Acupuncture, a concise guide to treating numerous painful conditions”, the first English language book on this topic, will give you an insight into the reasons why abdominal acupuncture is such a powerful and yet gentle system of acupuncture. Dave will provide you with a detailed account of this system from a theoretical basis to the practicalities of using Abdominal Acupuncture in your clinic, he will use real case histories and a demonstration to achieve this. You will learn about the relevance of each of the three levels in Abdominal Acupuncture with special attention given to the Turtle hologram used at the heaven level.
Dave will discuss why abdominal acupuncture offers such a powerful and yet gentle system of acupuncture that usually gives fast effective and long lasting results. He will discuss this from both a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), point of view and from a Western “scientific” perspective. Dave will detail the potential mechanism’s at play which will help to explain how abdominal acupuncture can potentially give such effective and at times profound results with wide and varied (therapeutic) side benefits. A detailed analysis of the importance of the “Gut Brain” or “Second Brain”’ the Triple Burner and the energetics of the abdominal area will be given to help appreciate “why abdominal is phenomenal”.
Dave will give a demonstration of abdominal acupuncture in practice and you can observe various aspects of an abdominal treatment, including the “Lotus Flower”. He will also provide a number of treatment protocols for some commonly seen painful conditions including Hip, Back neck and shoulder problems.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to treat hip problems using Abdominal Acupuncture.
- Show how the Eastern and Western Theory of the abdominal area are related in order to show how Abdominal Acupuncture potentially works.
- Understand the energetics of abdomen and the abdominal acupuncture points.
- Gain an appreciation of the theory behind Abdominal Acupuncture (AA).
- Learn how and when to use the abdominal Lotus Flower
Your Teacher
Dave Shipsey
Dave Shipsey is a Registered Acupuncturist, author, and International teacher of Abdominal Acupuncture. Dave has been teaching Abdominal Acupuncture since 2011 and published the first English book on the subject “Mastering the Art of Abdominal Acupuncture”, in 2015.
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The Big Formulas and the Big Ideas Behind Them - Course 1
Xiao Chai Hu Tang
with Will Maclean
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Xiao Chai Hu Tang is one of the most important formulas from the Shang Han Lun, and with over 2000 years of clinical experience behind, still one of the most widely and effectively used for a host of commonly seen ailments. This talk explores the popularity and dynamics of Xiao Chai Hu Tang, and goes beyond the usual shao yang/lingering pathogen narrative. We expand the understanding of Xiao Chai Hu Tang from a formula used for infectious processes, into one that is capable of managing some of the most common health issues of the modern world, and the reasons for this. We will see how understanding the structure and function of XCHT, and its related group of formulas, can assist in uncovering and elucidating the causes, pathology and solutions to the problem of chronic inflammation, or persistent heat in the language of Chinese medicine.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the Primary Pathological Triad model and be able to apply it, and utilise Xiao Chai Hu Tang and related formulas effectively, in the treatment of complex chronic pathology with a p[ersistent heat component
- Understand how Xiao Chai Hu Tang, and it related group of formulas, provides insights into the genesis, development and persistence of the problem of persistent heat in the body (synonymous with chronic inflammation).
- Be familiar with the origin and classical use of Xiao Chai Hu Tang
- Understand the structure and functional dynamics of Xiao Chai Hu Tang, form both the classical and modern perspectives
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Will Maclean
A graduate of the Sydney College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Will Maclean, M.Sc.Chin. Med, Dip.TCM, Cert. Chin. Med, trained in China, and has practiced TCM for over 25 years. An author, Will teaches internationally and speaks on topics pertaining to acupuncture and herbal medicine.
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The Big Formulas and the Big Ideas Behind Them - Course 2
Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang & the Directional Tendencies of Herbs
with Will Maclean
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Understanding Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang (BXXXT), its stucture and mechanics, provides insights into the importance of the qi dynamic in managing gastrointestinal problems. A member of the harmonising group of formulas, BXXXT demonstrates how the use of herbs with opposing natures and directional tendencies can drive and restore normal qi movement. While the main focus is on the middle burner qi dynamic, the principle can be extended to assist in rectifying other qi dynamics, the Heart Kidney axis, Spleen Lung (ying wei dysharmony) etc. We look at the directional tendencies of herbs and how to combine them to suit specific purposes.
Learning Objectives
- Appreciate the directional tendencies and thermal natures of certain herbs, and how to combine these to drive qi movement, and the restoration of the various qi dynamics of the body.
- Understand the function of the middle burner qi dynamic, and its importance in gastrointestinal complaints.
- Learn how to identify middle burner qi dynamic pathology, and solutions to restore its proper function.
- Understand to origin, stucture and mechanics of Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang and its related formulas.
Your Teacher
Will Maclean
A graduate of the Sydney College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Will Maclean, M.Sc.Chin. Med, Dip.TCM, Cert. Chin. Med, trained in China, and has practiced TCM for over 25 years. An author, Will teaches internationally and speaks on topics pertaining to acupuncture and herbal medicine.
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Developmental Concept: Finding the Centre
Developing Your own Boundaries
with Karin Kalbantner-Wernicke
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Offering a new perspective on development, this course shares a concept which combines both Eastern and Western knowledge and understanding. It is presented half through video and half through follow-along reading materials, in a comprehensive learning experience that offers practical approaches to support healthy baby development, parents, and families.
In the first year of life, an important development window occurs, as key sensory-motor milestones and our emerging meridian blueprint start to lay the foundations for future development.
The Developmental Concept aims to bring the Western knowledge of neuroscience, developmental physiology and psychology into alignment with the knowledge and experience of Eastern Medicine and meridian theory.
When viewed together as a holistic concept, we can also gain insights into themes which link our early development to topics and presentations in our later school years or adult life. This course starts at the beginning phase of life in the world, learning what it means to ‘find our centre’ and our sense of boundaries and how to support this.
You may be a practitioner working with babies and children, or have an interest in the topic of development. The course comprises practical and theoretical information along with comprehensive notes.
It is also accessible for interested parents and care-givers, with practical support such as handling methods and tips for baby’s everyday life.
The Developmental Concept is the result of many years of research and clinical experience by Karin Kalbantner-Wernicke and Dr Thomas Wernicke.
Learning Objectives
- Understand links between early development and difficulties in later years.
- Learn some ‘everyday’ tips that will help support baby at this stage.
- Gain a basic understanding of infant development from the Eastern and Western view in the first few months of a newborn.
- Develop awareness of KISS Syndrome and how it presents.
- Gain an understanding of the philosophy and overview of the Developmental Concept.
- Learn appropriate handling methods.
- Identify the group of meridians which comprise the Front Family.
- Describe some of the key themes which relate to the developmental concept Finding the Centre and the topic of the Front Family.
- Be able to offer supportive suggestions for parents which connect to this developmental topic.
Your Teacher
Karin Kalbantner-Wernicke
Karin Kalbantner-Wernicke is a Shiatsu teacher and children Physical Therapist. She is Program Coordinator and Lecturer for University Certification Program. Since over 30 years her work as a lecturer takes her abroad on a regular basis to many European countries, to the US, Japan, and Australia.
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Without clients in your clinic, you do not need a clinic. Years of school, work and the money could all be gone. Get a plan for getting and keeping clients using offline, online and in clinic methods. This course covers simple to sophisticated tactics and strategy’s for filling up your clinic.
You will get the “inside look” at the numbers and what I did to get to the point where I do over 2500 clients a year, for years and years. I will show you how I trained my clients to do the marketing, and also guide you how to do it faster and easier from the lessons learned since I started in 1996.
You can have a busy clinic, a smooth running business, excellent income and the life you dream of. Take the step towards success in this business. Watch this, the first course in the four part Business Flow series, and get busy.
Learning Objectives
- Learn skills to build out marketing and sales material and how to deliver it.
- Build a marketing and sales plan and how to action it, in a way that you can manage.
- Identify client acquisition tactics and skills for offline, online and in the clinic.
- Learn how to build a routine for patients from the welcome door to leaving the clinic.
- Understand the value and steps of communication excellence with patients and the general population.
Your Teacher
Ward Willison
Success in Life and Practice—join Ward on a trip to your success: a business career, a near death accident, and apprenticing for 10 years with a master. His clinic does 2500+ clients with 3 months off a year, since 2008. Learn the processes that work!
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Why do some clinics succeed and others close down? How can I be a success?
Watch this and find out some of those answers!
You will hear from someone who talks with you not at you. Sharing some stories of winning and losing and how he kept going and built a solid practice. It is not always easy, but it was always worth it.
Ward is going to walk you through a brief assessment to figure out where you are on your map to clinical success. If you know where you are on a map and know where you want to go, and you are willing to learn the skills required to get from A to B. You will likely get there.
Learn why in the beginning you memorize scripts and follow directions. But by the end you forget all of that “stuff” people told you to do and you run your clinic your way.
Ward will show you the three stages of business, giving skills and requirements for each and goals to get you to the next level.
Learn about Client flow, Clinic flow, Financial flow and Life flow. How they affect you, your family and your business. Each flow has three stages and there is a great tip given for each one. Things you can reflect upon and see if you are doing them. As when you incorporate those tips into your practice you will get better results clinically and financially.
Let’s begin.
Learning Objectives
- Learn the 3 stages and 4 flows of business, and what is required at each level to help a practice thrive.
- Learn the challenges and highlights of running a medical practice, and how to build a roadmap for success.
- To understand client and sales numbers and build a process to track them and learn the income potentials of the clinic and what is required to reach those levels.
- Learn strategies to balance both clinic and personal life, and how each aspect can complement the other.
- Understand how to navigate, plan, and deal with clinic challenges in a variety of scenarios, and possible solutions for each situation.
Your Teacher
Ward Willison
Success in Life and Practice—join Ward on a trip to your success: a business career, a near death accident, and apprenticing for 10 years with a master. His clinic does 2500+ clients with 3 months off a year, since 2008. Learn the processes that work!
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Multiple Systems: Balance System Acupuncture - Level 2
Balancing mulitple meridians at a time.
with Sonia Tan
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This course expands on the basic principles taught in the Balance System of Acupuncture Level I - Single Systems. This class will discuss treatment of functional and internal disorders and how to treat them with multiple systems of the Balance Method / System of Acupuncture. Students will expand on the knowledge from Level I, extending their clinical reach from musculoskeletal (MSK), orthopedics and pain, to treating internal medicine disorders, including the discussion of complicated cases that include both MSK pain and functional internal disorders. The mirror and imaging format will be further discussed and how it is used in clinical practice to treat internal issues and body pain. Advanced treatments will be discussed such as Eight-Meridian combo for gynecological issues. A Four-Meridian will also be discussed as a treatment strategy to treat bronchial disorders, cardiology symptoms, digestive disorders and urogenital diseases. Practitioners will understand how to approach complicated cases involving multiple meridians in clinical practice.
Pre-requisite: Balance System of Acupuncture Level 1 - Single Systems.
Learning Objectives
- Locate specific acupuncture points within the Balance Method/System.
- Apply pre-designed strategies to treat a variety of health conditions.
- Differentiate dynamic and static balance.
- Select the most efficient meridians to heal multiple sick meridians.
- Design a treatment plan/strategy that incorporates dynamic and static balance to heal multiple meridians.
Your Teacher
Sonia Tan
Dr. Sonia F Tan, DAOM, RAc, RTCMP, licensed since 2006, is a Doctor of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (DAOM degree), a Registered Acupuncturist, and a Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practitioner. She is one of few certified Gold Level practitioners of the late Dr. Richard Tehfu Tan.
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Abdominal acupuncture is a relatively new form of acupuncture which was developed by Prof. Bo ZhiYun over the course of approximately 20 years, it was introduced in China in 1991. It is still relatively unknown in many parts of the West and offers a comprehensive and powerful system to treat a multitude of Muscular-skeletal, painful, acute and chronic conditions (see Dave Shipsey’s book “Mastering the Art of Abdominal Acupuncture, a concise guide to treating numerous painful conditions” the only book written in English on this topic). It is a Micro-System with Mega Power, for many reasons, which will be detailed in this webinar.
Abdominal acupuncture is easy to incorporate into your practice, it is simple to learn and once the subtleties of this system are understood and refined it can be performed in a fast effective and reliable way. It offers clients an almost pain-free form of acupuncture that has many nurturing effects which enables it to give a multitude of side benefits that are more far reaching than regular acupuncture. It allows many problems to be treated in one session without the need for complicated prescription formulation or complex diagnosis.
This webinar is designed to give you an understanding of all aspects of Abdominal Acupuncture necessary to utilize this wonderful pain - free system in your clinic. You will discover why abdominal acupuncture packs such a powerful therapeutic punch, and you will also learn a number of tried and tested methods to treat a variety of commonly seen painful conditions.
The theory is supported with real life case histories from Dave Shipsey’s practice. There are also two live demonstrations which will allow you to observe the subtleties of abdominal diagnosis, point location, abdominal needle techniques and formulating abdominal prescriptions. You can observe the abdominal treatment protocol in a step - by - step manner, so that you are confident to use this system upon completion.
Learning Objectives
- Obtain a deeper comprehension of AA points used will assist with formulating prescriptions.
- Understand the Anatomical significance of AA points to ensure fast diagnosis and treatment.
- Gain an appreciation of the theory behind Abdominal Acupuncture (AA).
- Gain an understanding of empirical prescriptions.
- Gain an appreciation of the importance of using AA landmarks and recognizing abdominal patterns will be attained, thus ensuring correct abdominal point location.
Your Teacher
Dave Shipsey
Dave Shipsey is a Registered Acupuncturist, author, and International teacher of Abdominal Acupuncture. Dave has been teaching Abdominal Acupuncture since 2011 and published the first English book on the subject “Mastering the Art of Abdominal Acupuncture”, in 2015.
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This two-part course is designed to develop an understanding of Yangsheng in the postpartum, the art of self-cultivation and taking the opportunity for change inherent in this life transition.
Each module will be one hour long and will be illustrated with mothers’ stories and footage from interviews with mothers. As this is intended for CM practitioners in a western setting with patients from many different cultural backgrounds, there will be an emphasis on understanding various different cultural practices in postpartum care from a Chinese medical viewpoint. There will be a discussion of how to help manage and support mothers’ postpartum in a modern clinical setting.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the physiology of the postpartum from the perspective of Chinese Medicine.
- Understand the physiology of the postpartum from the perspective of Western Biomedicine.
- Understanding the principles of managing the postpartum, as well as the following aspects of self care: Rest, Routine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Dietary Therapy, and Social Support.
- Understand the benefits of a well-managed postpartum, including the concept of the Golden Month, as an opportunity for long-term health improvements in the mother.
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Jenny Allison
Jenny Allison is a Chinese Medicine practitioner and author of ‘Golden Month: Caring for the World’s Mothers after Childbirth.’ She has focused on woman’s health for the past 30 years, and has a special interest in the care of mothers postpartum.
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Treatment results from practitioner to practitioner can vary greatly when treating a condition. Even more confounding is when treatment results vary when different practitioners treat the same patients with the same points, but somehow one practitioner’s treatment results in a “so-so” treatment, and the other produces a fantastic result. Dr. Chang will discuss the importance of needle depth, direction, and engaging the De Qi sensation as factors in creating a “Wow” treatment. Based on her years of clinical experience, she will help both new and experienced practitioners refine their needling techniques for more effective and consistent outcomes.
Learning Objectives
- How to effectively treat various types of pain and get quick results with your patients in clinic
- Learn the following needling techniques: deqi, quqi, liuqi, the concept of heaven, human and earth layers when inserting acupuncture needles, Dao Ma, Dong Qi and Qian Yin techniques
- Review the TCM time clock and what this can tell us in the patient’s history of their presenting concern.
- Learn what causes pain in TCM so that you can effectively treat it clinically
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Christine Chang
Dr. Christine Chang, DAOM, specializes in herbal formulas and Chinese nutrition, and brings this expertise to her private practice as well as serving as a faculty member at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine. She is also the interpreter for the lectures of Dr. Wei Chieh Young.
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Points Series - Course 5
A Study of Xingjian (Liv. 2)
with Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
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An in-depth study based on the Chinese Classics, on the deep insight of great masters of the past, and on the knowledge of their cultural environment. This presentation sets up a firm foundation for the correct use of the point, Liver 2, which becomes familiar so as to be easily and naturally used. In this course, the Liver 2 - Xingjian is covered. A comprehensive explanation of the point name that helps explain the point's functions, position, and roles is explored; as well, the clinical use of Liv. 2 in the great classical texts of medicine and examples of associations with other points to treat specific symptoms and disorders are also covered.
Learning Objectives
- The student will understand how associations with other points may be used in different clinical patterns.
- The student will learn the possible functions and clinical patterns for the point.
- The student will be able to describe the profile of the point and its functions.
- The student will learn the meaning of the expression that forms these characters and its classical use, and application in medical texts.
- The student will study and understand the characters composing the name of the point.
Your Teacher
Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
TCM academic and historian, Elisabeth Rochat has specialized in both medical and philosophical Classics in her 40+ years career. She co-authored 'A Survey of Chinese Medicine' and continues to teach about the Classics of TCM internationally.
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In the Clinic Series - Course 1
Session 1
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
This recorded webinar is the next best thing to spending time in the clinic with Professor Neil Gumenick. Videos of actual patients are presented prior to treatment. Next, Neil discusses his diagnostic findings: Causative Factor, physical, mental, and/or spiritual level of the disease; pulse diagnosis, and point selection, including explanations of the choice of points in the context of the Law of Five Elements; the pulse findings, the spiritual connotations of the points, the action performed on each point, and the rationale for the precise order is discussed. Post treatment videos follow, after which, Neil analyzes the changes in the patient, particularly from the viewpoint of the vocal sound and emotion. Neil will then share the post treatment pulse findings, and strategize the next several treatments, with full explanations of each point chosen. Different videos, patients, diagnoses, and treatment plans are presented in each session, offering a wide range of case studies, diagnoses, and strategies to be discussed and analyzed. Notes for download are provided.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn how the diagnostic information is assessed and translated into a specific treatment plan, unique to the present needs of the patient.
- Students will learn how the theory of Classical Diagnosis by sound and emotion is employed with actual patients and can reveal the Causative Factor of Disease
- Students will learn interviewing skills to uncover the deeper needs of the patient, particularly at the levels of mind and spirit
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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In the Clinic Series - Course 3
Session 3
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
This recorded webinar is the next best thing to spending time in the clinic with Professor Neil Gumenick. Videos of actual patients are presented prior to treatment. Next, Neil discusses his diagnostic findings: Causative Factor, physical, mental, and/or spiritual level of the disease; pulse diagnosis, and point selection, including explanations of the choice of points in the context of the Law of Five Elements; the pulse findings, the spiritual connotations of the points, the action performed on each point, and the rationale for the precise order is discussed. Post treatment videos follow, after which, Neil analyzes the changes in the patient, particularly from the viewpoint of the vocal sound and emotion. Neil will then share the post treatment pulse findings, and strategize the next several treatments, with full explanations of each point chosen. Different videos, patients, diagnoses, and treatment plans are presented in each session, offering a wide range of case studies, diagnoses, and strategies to be discussed and analyzed. Notes for download are provided.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn interviewing skills to uncover the deeper needs of the patient, particularly at the levels of mind and spirit
- Students will learn how the theory of Classical Diagnosis by sound and emotion is employed with actual patients and can reveal the Causative Factor of Disease
- Students will learn how the diagnostic information is assessed and translated into a specific treatment plan, unique to the present needs of the patient
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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In the Clinic Series - Course 5
Session 5
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
This recorded webinar is the next best thing to spending time in the clinic with Professor Neil Gumenick. Videos of actual patients are presented prior to treatment. Next, Neil discusses his diagnostic findings: Causative Factor, physical, mental, and/or spiritual level of the disease; pulse diagnosis, and point selection, including explanations of the choice of points in the context of the Law of Five Elements; the pulse findings, the spiritual connotations of the points, the action performed on each point, and the rationale for the precise order is discussed. Post treatment videos follow, after which, Neil analyzes the changes in the patient, particularly from the viewpoint of the vocal sound and emotion. Neil will then share the post treatment pulse findings, and strategize the next several treatments, with full explanations of each point chosen. Different videos, patients, diagnoses, and treatment plans are presented in each session, offering a wide range of case studies, diagnoses, and strategies to be discussed and analyzed. Notes for download are provided.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn interviewing skills to uncover the deeper needs of the patient, particularly at the levels of mind and spirit
- Students will learn how the theory of Classical Diagnosis by sound and emotion is employed with actual patients and can reveal the Causative Factor of Disease
- Students will learn how the diagnostic information is assessed and translated into a specific treatment plan, unique to the present needs of the patient
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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Points Series - Course 4
A Study of Tai Chong (Liv. 3)
with Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
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Overview
An in-depth study based on the Chinese Classics, on the deep insight of great masters of the past, and on the knowledge of their cultural environment. This presentation sets up a firm foundation for the correct use of the point, Liver 3, which becomes familiar so as to be easily and naturally used. In this course, the Liver 3 - Tai Chong is covered. A comprehensive explanation of the point name that helps explain the point's functions, position, and roles is explored; as well, the clinical use of Liv. 3 in the great classical texts of medicine and examples of associations with other points to treat specific symptoms and disorders are also covered.
Learning Objectives
- The student will study and understand the characters composing the name of the point.
- The student will learn the meaning of the expression that forms these characters and its classical use, and application in medical texts.
- The student will learn the possible functions and clinical patterns for the point.
- The student will understand how associations with other points may be used in different clinical patterns.
- The student will be able to describe the profile of the point and its functions.
Your Teacher
Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
TCM academic and historian, Elisabeth Rochat has specialized in both medical and philosophical Classics in her 40+ years career. She co-authored 'A Survey of Chinese Medicine' and continues to teach about the Classics of TCM internationally.
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In the Clinic Series - Course 4
Session 4
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
This recorded webinar is the next best thing to spending time in the clinic with Professor Neil Gumenick. Videos of actual patients are presented prior to treatment. Next, Neil discusses his diagnostic findings: Causative Factor, physical, mental, and/or spiritual level of the disease; pulse diagnosis, and point selection, including explanations of the choice of points in the context of the Law of Five Elements; the pulse findings, the spiritual connotations of the points, the action performed on each point, and the rationale for the precise order is discussed. Post treatment videos follow, after which, Neil analyzes the changes in the patient, particularly from the viewpoint of the vocal sound and emotion. Neil will then share the post treatment pulse findings, and strategize the next several treatments, with full explanations of each point chosen. Different videos, patients, diagnoses, and treatment plans are presented in each session, offering a wide range of case studies, diagnoses, and strategies to be discussed and analyzed. Notes for download are provided.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn interviewing skills to uncover the deeper needs of the patient, particularly at the levels of mind and spirit
- Students will learn how the theory of Classical Diagnosis by sound and emotion is employed with actual patients and can reveal the Causative Factor of Disease
- Students will learn how the diagnostic information is assessed and translated into a specific treatment plan, unique to the present needs of the patient
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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In the Clinic Series - Course 2
Session 2
with Neil Gumenick
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This recorded webinar is the next best thing to spending time in the clinic with Professor Neil Gumenick. Videos of actual patients are presented prior to treatment. Next, Neil discusses his diagnostic findings: Causative Factor, physical, mental, and/or spiritual level of the disease; pulse diagnosis, and point selection, including explanations of the choice of points in the context of the Law of Five Elements; the pulse findings, the spiritual connotations of the points, the action performed on each point, and the rationale for the precise order is discussed. Post treatment videos follow, after which, Neil analyzes the changes in the patient, particularly from the viewpoint of the vocal sound and emotion. Neil will then share the post treatment pulse findings, and strategize the next several treatments, with full explanations of each point chosen. Different videos, patients, diagnoses, and treatment plans are presented in each session, offering a wide range of case studies, diagnoses, and strategies to be discussed and analyzed. Notes for download are provided.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn how the diagnostic information is assessed and translated into a specific treatment plan, unique to the present needs of the patient
- Students will learn interviewing skills to uncover the deeper needs of the patient, particularly at the levels of mind and spirit
- Students will learn how the theory of Classical Diagnosis by sound and emotion is employed with actual patients and can reveal the Causative Factor of Disease
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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Will the Real Channels and Organs Please Stand Up
How Biomedicine Pulls Them Into Focus
with Dan Keown
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A 57-year-old woman come into the clinic complaining of waking in the night needing to pee; she also has a diagnosis of asthma. Patients often present with multiple symptoms. Dr. Keown discusses his strategies for history taking, formulating a diagnosis, making a plan, and then treating. Dr. Keown's style of practice is heavily influenced by Dr. Wang Ju-Yi and his channel palpation method. He considers himself a student of this method and focuses on exploring people's experience and knowledge of channel palpation. Finally, in the last part of this talk, he discusses how Western medicine strengthens our understanding of Chinese medicine, thereby giving practitioners new ways to explain TCM to their patient population.
Learning Objectives
- Understand jing luo as simply spaces in the body
- Understand the points as places where change occurs
- Understand the Chinese function of organs in biomedical terms
- Realize the channels as real physical spaces that surgeons use and acupuncturists can use in palpation
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Dan Keown
Dan Keown, M.B.Ch.B., B.A., received his medical degree from Manchester University and completed a degree in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture from the College of Integrated Medicine. A member of the British Acupuncture Council for 10 years, Dr. Keown is also an author on topics relating to TCM and western medicine.
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