A traditional Chinese medicine teacher teaches that good health is a result of a free flowing, well-balanced energy system. It is believed that regular practice of Qi Gong helps cleanse the body of toxins, restores energy, reduces stress and anxiety, and helps individuals maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. These exercises will enable to participant to have a better perception of their own qi flow and to use these exercises for helping patients with chronic back pain and qi deficiency.
The attendees will be taught Qi Gong to develop an awareness of qi sensations (energy) in their body and use their mind to guide the Qi. As the practitioners achieve a sufficient skill lever, they can direct or emit external Qi for the purpose of healing others. Selections will be from the deer, tiger and bear forms. This course will enable practitioners to pass along these techniques to their patients so that they are capacble of taking a more active role in their own healthcare, especially for disease prevention.
9:00 am - 9:50 am
Alex Tiberi - Using Meridians and Five Phases to Treat Zang/Fu Syndrome
1 CEU/PDA General Credit
Many practitioners are unable to combine the two different chinese medicine paradigms of five elements and eight principles. This lecture will explain how these systems are entirely compatiable allowing the mixture of methods such as five element point needling, Japanese meridian therapy and chinese TCM style treatment.
One of the most important aspects of healing is the onging cultivation of its clinicians. Intrinsic to the practice of Chinese medicine is the ongoing responsibility of a clinician to examine his or her role and how such role can have an impact on the modalities that one practices and subsequently its influence on the overall healing process. This lecture will focus on the role of a healer and an examination of “healing” modalities.
11:10 am - 12 noon
Janet Zand - An Introduction to Integrating TCM with Conventional Western Medicine: The Best of Both Worlds
1 CEU/PDA
Often times a patient comes to our office with a previous diagnosis and a variety of medications. What can we take from Western medicine to enhance our result? This session will give background of how the TCM practitioner can enhance clinical results with the use of conventional serum blood work, Western botanicals and nutritional supplements.
A traditional Chinese medicine tenet teaches that good health is a result of a free flowing, well-balanced energy system. It is believed that regular practice of Qi Gong helps cleanse the body of toxins, restores energy, reduces stress and anxiety, and helps individuals maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. This course will enable practitioners to pass along these techniques to their patients, which will be capable of taking a more active role in their own healthcare, especially for disease prevention and wellness.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Alex Tiberi - Five Elements and Eight Principles - No Difference
3 CEUs/PDAs
General Credit
This workshop will teach two very special techniques. One called shao yao daoist needle methods which is an extremely comfortable method to create "de qi" needle sensation and "snake moxa" which is a very tonic technique of applying moxa on ginger along the whole spine. There will be theoretical discussion of how acupuncture can treat internal disorders as well as herbs in many cases. Also special point combinations based on the five phases will be taught. These can directly treat many common clinical complaints.
It is often stated that Chinese medicine is essentially the application of Chinese philosophy rooted in Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. To allow for greater understanding of these concepts, tangible images and forms were devised to create a greater grasp of their elusive dynamics, e.g., five element theory of correspondences. This workshop will explore the metaphors of Chinese medicine and how its understanding can enhance clinicians.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Janet Zand - Integrating TCM with Conventional Western Medicine: The Best of Both Worlds
3 CEUs/PDAs
The objective of the afternoon session is to give examples of conventional western syndromes and expose the practitioner to various botanicals not commonly used in TCM and nutritional supplements that can augment clinical result. Additional solutions to these 8 conventional Western medical topics: alcoholism, anorexia and bulimia, hypoglycemia, diabetes, food allergies, demetia, hyperparathyroidism and insomnia will be presented. The goal of the workshop is to provide additional tools to improve and enhance clinical result.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Mike Akong- Treating Common Neurological Problems and Severe Paralysis Using Neuro-Acupuncture Techniques
3 CEUs/PDAs
As clinicians we have had our share of difficult patients and difficult cases. In this workshop, attendees will learn specific techniques for obtaining faster results in some of the most difficult cases, including severe paralysis (from stroke or spinal cord injury). Recent biomedical research will show how acupuncture works via the musculoskeletal, peripheral and central nervous systems. Specific scalp micro-systems will be reviewed and practiced and participants will learn an iterative treatment paradigm to obtain and manage Qi in order to reduce pain and promote higher function.
The Shanghai college of TCM has been using Tuina methods to lower blood sugar levels and promote healing of hard to heal wounds and to prevent peripheral neuropathy. This workshop will teach a hands on Tuina approach to enable the participant to better serve the diabetic patient. There will be emphasis upon the care and management of diabetes and its common side effects of peripheral neuropathy and hard to heal wounds.
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses by Toan Truong and Leslie McCoy
