Course Objectives
- Difficulties with diagnosis: Students will learn how to manage patients when the physical cause of their suffering is unknown.
- The Intake: Understanding how to explain your treatment process so that your patient feels comfortable engaging your services and how to ask the right questions to get the information you need to begin treatment and get off on the right foot.
- Acupuncture protocols: Students will learn acupuncture point combinations and how to space treatments to get the most benefit with the least number of treatments will be explained in detail.
- Patient self-care: Students will learn how to reduce the backward steps patients cause themselves while teaching them safe practices that can improve their outcomes.
Course Outline
0 hrs - 15 min
Difficulties with diagnosis: In most cases of low back pain, a definitive diagnosis is difficult, if not impossible, to reach. Students will learn how to manage patients when the physical cause of their suffering is unknown.
15 min - 45 min
The Intake: How to explain your treatment process so that your patient feels comfortable engaging your services and how to ask the right questions to get the information you need to begin treatment and get off on the right foot.
45 min - 1.25 hrs
Acupuncture protocols: Point combinations and how to space treatments to get the most benefit with the least number of treatments will be explained in detail and how long to stay with your plan A before changing to plan B.
1.25 hrs - 1.75 hrs
Patient self-care: Students will learn how to reduce the backward steps patients cause themselves while teaching them safe practices that can improve their outcomes.
1.75 hrs - 2 hrs
Adjunctive therapies: Acupuncture is not the only therapy needed for best results. Students will learn the more reliable and cost-effective adjunctive therapies.
A terrific overall course for anyone wanting to start treating back pain, or to improve what they already know.
Kira F. - Canada
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Taught by Matthew Bauer
Matthew began his full-time practice of Chinese Medicine in 1986 after several years of studying Taoist philosophy with a 74th generation Taoist Master. Matthew is the President of the Acupuncture Now Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to educating people about acupuncture.
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