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Acupuncture Learning & Integrated Educational Development

Acupuncture in Respiratory Care

Acupuncture Course Outline

This course integrates Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM] Acupuncture, trigger points and electro-Acupuncture theory into manual and exercise therapy for respiratory care. It includes an evidence based, clinical reasoning paradigm incorporating recent research protocols to support your choice of management.

This course has been specifically designed to facilitate learning for:

• Physiotherapists working in the field of respiratory rehabilitation
• Outpatient and inpatient care

The course will include:

• Pathophysiology of pain and respiratory dysfunction with a view to Acupuncture management
• Physiology of Acupuncture with reference to:
  • Breathlessness
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • COAD
  • Respiratory distress
  • Anxiety
• Myofascial Pain, trigger point contributions to lung dysfunction
• Integration of clinical reasoning within Acupuncture
• Evidence to support Acupuncture protocols

Indicative Acupuncture Content

• Power point presentations of theoretical aspects of condition,
• Clinical reasoning within action groups with patient scenarios,
• Submission of a 2,500 word case study of a patient presenting with a condition relevant to this course.

Suggested Pre-Course reading

• Acupuncture for respiratory disease. Lancet letters. Lancet; April 4, 1987
• Giovanni Maciocia The Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Chapter 8 & 12 The Functions of the Lung; Heart and Lungs in TCM
• Giovanni Maciocia The Principles of Chinese Medicine. Chapter 5 asthma; Chapter 8 Cough.
• Val Hopwood Acupuncture in Physiotherapy. Chapter 2 QI, Blood and Body Fluids. Page 157-160
• Filshie and White. Medical Acupuncture Pages 249-260

Acupuncture Course Dates & Venues

For dates and venues for this course, please see the Programme of Acupuncture Training Courses on the menu to the left.

For further information on Acupuncture Courses, please contact ALIED