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Myofascial gua sha requires more skill and training than conventional wei qigua sha in order to safely and effectively treat the muscles, tendons, and aponeuroses of the jing-jin ("sinew meridians") or myofascial tracts, while avoiding destabilization of adjacent joints or trauma to nerves:
Break up painful myofascial trigger points and relieve myalgia
First time user? Your account will be automatically be created after purchase. Please note:
--Webinars require continuous attendance on the date(s) offered to receive PDAs/CEUs. If you cannot attend, please consider a self-paced distance-learning version instead, if available, or another class that you will be able to attend.
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Why Electroacupuncture (EA)? EA has unique therapeutic effects, and complements manual acupuncture:
Provokes strong pain control responses through release of the brain’s own opioid neurotransmitters (including endorphins, dynorphins, enkephalins), as well as up-regulation of serotonin, a critical mood stabilizing biomolecule.
Interrupts pain/spasm cycles, and can facilitate the gains in joint range-of-motion crucial to physical rehabilitation.
Stimulates proprioceptive nerve fibers, resulting in muscle re-balancing and re-education of hypo-functioning or injured muscles.
Normalizes local blood flow and lymphatic drainage.
Speeds up cell metabolism, thus stimulating tissue repair and regeneration.
Electroacupuncture is safe for long-term use and without known side-effects. Properly-applied, electroacupuncture is no more uncomfortable, and is better tolerated by some patients, than manual stimulation of needles to bring about pain relief.
Electroacupuncture safety:
Cautions and contraindications
Patient education and informed consent
Safety protocols and management of adverse events
Electroacupuncture parameters and settings:
Amplitude: milli- and micro-
Frequency
Mode
Duration
Polarity and lead placement
Integrating electroacupuncture into acupuncture clinic flow:
Combining electroacupuncture with other therapies
Documentation for malpractice defense and to support insurance billing
Student Comments:
"I really appreciated the straightforward and science based education on how to properly apply e-stim. I understand it so much better now!" -- Elizabeth Angiello, Richmond, CA
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Cupping has unique benefits for musculo-skeletal pain that cannot be obtained any other way. Cupping decompresses and stretches myofascial tissues away from the underlying structures (instead of pushing them into bones, like massage).
Beyond "set and forget" static cups, advanced orthopedic cupping can provide more powerful therapeutic effects for neuro-musculoskeletal pain and disability, including:
Precisely and actively engaging, stretching and mobilizing the underlying muscles, tendons, fascia and joints
Reducing painful trigger points and adhesions
Triggering muscle relaxation reflexes
Draining areas of inflammation and lymphatic congestion (heat, qi and blood stagnation, and damp-phlegm accumulations)
Drawing fresh blood through tight, adhered or restricted muscles, removing wastes and bringing new oxygen and nutrients to injured area
Decreasing pain-inhibition to movement
And restoring normal muscle-tendon strength and flexibility, and joint range-of-motion
Passive cupping
Beyond "sliding," passive cupping employs specific mobilization techniques using both directed suction, and passive movement of the affected limbs.
Active cupping
Guiding patients through precise movements with cups in place over specific myofascial tissues combines therapeutic exercise with suction for synergistic benefits.
Passive and active cupping requires the acupuncturist to understand the optimal types and directions of myofascial tissue mobilization for specific body regions and injuries.
"Wet" cupping
involves cups applied to body regions following the use of a 7-star, lancet or 3-edged needle, in order to enhance the movement of stagnant body fluids that trap heat, dampness and phlegm (inflammation) and obstruct the inflow of new, fresh blood.
Class Topics:
Safety and standards of care
Cautions and contraindications
Patient education and informed consent
Manual pump vs. fire cupping
Risk reduction protocols and management of adverse events
Cup disinfection and re-use
Post-cupping protocols
Passive and active cupping: therapeutic mechanisms, indications and protocols for specific body regions
Regional muscle hypertonicity/spasticity
Paraspinals
Forearm
Shoulder girdle
Gluteals
Quadriceps, IT band and hamstrings
Calves
“Wet” cupping: therapeutic mechanisms, indications and protocols for specific conditions
Acute sprain/strain injuries
Bursitis (shoulder, hip, knee, calcaneal)
Adhesive capsulitis
Tendinitis and tendinosis
Chronic myofascial pain and blood stasis
Integrating advanced orthopedic cupping into acupuncture clinic flow.
Combining cupping with other therapies
Billing and coding
Documentation for malpractice defense and to support insurance billing
Student Comments:
"Can't wait to apply these new techniques in my practice! I already have a few patients in mind." -- Elizabeth Angiello, Richmond, CA
