North Carolina (NCALB)

Goals and Outlines
At the end of the webinar, each participant will understand how to:

Goals and Outlines

Part 1: Acupuncture and Gua Sha therapy for adhesive capsulitis frozen shoulder
1.     Familiarize a participant on research sources for acupuncture and frozen shoulder
2.     Detail steps in classical interactive acupuncture therapy session including assessing ROM, palpation, needling and Gua sha, repeat ROM. 
3.     Assessing treatment progress within a session
4.     Responsive treatments over time with patient activation to ‘thaw’ frozen shoulder
 
Part 2: Neuro-anatomical acupuncture for rotator cuff & shoulder girdle dysfunction

1. Learn to analyze shoulder dysfunction based on trigger point, tendinopathy, hypertonicity and motor inhibition.  
2. Learn to translate each of the 8 possible movement problems to muscle groups and associated nerves, as well as associated points. 
3. Learn the needle technique, De Qi confirmation and electrical acupuncture strategy to target neuroanatomically precise points.
4. Be confident in assessing and treating complex shoulder dysfunction.

 
Part 3: The treatment of frozen shoulder using dr tan balance method acupuncture

1. Understand the basic of the balance method,
2. Learn how to diagnose frozen shoulder.
3. Transforming our diagnosis into a simple acupuncture treatment.
4. Understand the balance method approach for shoulder problems.
5. Know how to guide patients to do simple rehabilitation exercise.

 
Part 4: A Global Approach to Treating Shoulder Pain & Rotator Cuff Tears

1. Students will understand the principles of treating sports injuries and orthopedic conditions of the shoulder and rotator cuff.
2. Students will understand how and when to combine acupuncture tui na, herbal formulae (internal and external) and rehabilitative Qi Gong in treating sports injuries and orthopedic conditions of the shoulder and rotator cuff.
3. Student will learn and understand the importance of adjunctive herbal medicines for treating the shoulder and rotator cuff.

 
Part 5: Master Tung’s Magic Points: Five Different Ways to Address Shao Yang Neck and Shoulder Pain

1. Understand which points to choose for which type of Shao Yang neck and shoulder pain
2. Understand how to use gua sha and cupping techniques for releasing spasms in the neck, the top of the shoulder and the upper back.

Goals and Outlines
Part 1: Treating Insomnia with UAT: Using Saam 4 Needles and I Ching Patterns to treat sleeping disorders

• Understand the meridian clock and the transition from daytime to night time
• Be able to apply 2 Saam patterns for sleep problems
• Be able to apply 2 I Ching Ba Gua patterns for sleep patterns
• Understand how to differentiate between the 4 patterns of the course

 
Part 2: Insomnia and the Modern World Diagnosis and Acupuncture strategies

• Understand the Western physiology of sleep
• Understand the Health consequences of insomnia
• Understand the Chinese energetics of sleep

• Learn the primary acupuncture points for insomnia

 
Part 3: The Yang of Sleep: Using the Yang Qiao to Treat Insomnia

• Participants will review good sleep hygiene to reduce external stimuli.
• Participants will learn the pathway points and functions of the Yang Qiao.
• Participants will explore treatment strategies for the Yang Qiao & insomnia.
• Participants will learn points that open the Pericardium loop to free emotional constraint and allows the Wei qi to internalize at night.

 
Part 4: Treatment of Insomnia with Classical Formulas

• To learn the basic single mechanism for insomnia
• To differentiate the single mechanism into Yang vs Yin insomnia
• To differentiate most common types of insomnia in both Yang and Yin categories
• To differentiate insomnia from other related issues

To grasp key principles and the herbal formulas that go with those principles
 
 
 
Part 5: A Five Spirits Approach to Treating Insomnia and Anxiety

• Understand of insomnia and anxiety through the lens of wushen
• Deepen their understanding of the role of the blood as the yin matrix of the soul and spirit and the treatment of deficient blood from a Five Spirits perspective
• Understand the Heart monarch’s role in regulating sleep and dreams as described in classical texts
• Learn specific points as well as adjunct treatments to treat these conditions
• Learn sleep meditation and breathing practices to support their patients in developing better sleep patterns