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Contemporary scientific models of the mechanisms of pain, and how acupuncture treats it, can open up new understandings avenues for therapy. Knowing the language, paradigms and findings of clinically-applicable research facilitates communication with Western patients that can enhance trust and outcomes, and with medical providers that can lead to increased referrals.
Live class format: weekend lecture modules
Soon to be available as distance-learning/self-study courses
Required for Certification in Integrative Acupuncture Orthopedics:
- Complex and Chronic Pain Conditions I: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), aka Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Causalgia
- Neural sensitization: linking mind-body pain
- Etiology, pathology, and natural history of CRPS
- Recognition and diagnosis of CRPS
- Managing and treating CRPS
- Complex and Chronic Pain Conditions II: Primary Headaches, Fibryomylagia, Myofascial, and Post-Traumatic Pain Syndromes
- History-taking, physical exam, and differentiation of syndromes
- Treatment with AOM modalities
- Sleep, dietary, lifestyle and exercise interventions
- Working with mal- and non-adaptive pain psychology and behaviors
- Clinical Applications of AOM Research
- Assessing research quality, validity and relevance
- Scientific models of acupuncture mechanisms
- Differentiating evidence-based from unsupported variables in acupuncture techniques
- "Placebo effects" and the therapeutic alliance
- Case reporting guidelines: how to take SOAP notes that are publication-ready
