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Medical Documentation: Essential Best Practices – Distance Learning/Self-Study Course

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Thank you for taking this class! You have 1 year from date-of-purchase to complete your class and obtain your certificates of completion. Here’s how:

1. Open up each subject under “Course Content” below and scroll through the slideshow, and mark the slideshow (and any other contents, if present) as “complete.”

2. Complete the quiz. You may take the quiz as many times as you need to get the required 100% correct.

3. Complete the course eval. The eval should “pop up” as soon as you complete the quiz (you may need to disable a pop-up blocker for www.aomprofessional.com to see the eval). The course eval is not optional, it is required by NCCAOM & California Acupuncture Board.

NCCAOM Diplomates please note: for us to report your course completion to the NCCAOM, you must provide your first & last name in the course eval, exactly as listed in the NCCAOM Diplomate database. If you check “anonymous” or use a different name spelling, the NCCAOM will not be able to associate our report with your account, and you will not receive PDAs.

NCCAOM Diplomates: we will report your course completion to the NCCAOM as soon as possible after you complete the quiz and survey. Please allow 1 week to receive your PDA certificate by email from the NCCAOM.

California Licensees: This class has not yet been approved for CAB CEUs. If you would like Category 1 CEUs for this class, please let us know at least 6 weeks in advance of when you will need CEUs. We will then submit an application to the CAB for CEUs, and notify you when it has been approved. When the class has been approved and you have completed it, your CEU certificate will be immediately available to download, and will also be stored in your account under “My Certificates of Completion.”

If you wish to continue to access the class materials after 1 year, you may subscribe to the E-book, which includes the same notes, slideshows and any associated videos.

Please let us know if you have any trouble navigating the class. Thank you for your purchase, and we hope you found the class useful!

Best wishes,

Anthony Von der Muhll, L.Ac.
Head Instructor

Red Flags & Referrals

Recognition and Management of Serious/Urgent Medical Conditions

With Instructor Anthony Von der Muhll, L.Ac., DNBAO, FAIPM

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 Course Goals and Content
On-Demand/Home Study Class

  • Over 30 “easy-to-miss” urgent/serious conditions relatively likely to present in acupuncture practice without prior diagnosis
  • Symptom-based format and case studies: test your ability to rapidly and accurately identify red flags
  • The art of making referrals and building relationships with other health professionals: enhance patient safety, while you increase your practice volume!

Recognition and management of urgent/serious medical conditions

  • L.Ac.’s role as primary health-care profession
  • Condition incidence and/or prevalence in outpatient acupuncture practice
  • Risk factor/history/sign/symptom clusters
  • Pathomechanisms, natural progression and adverse outcomes
  • Stabilizing measures, referrals, consultations, and EMS
  • Documentation of assessment, stabilization and referral

General characteristics of pain as a red flag

  • Timing of pain
  • Post-traumatic and post-surgical pain
  • Atraumatic joint inflammation and degeneration
  • Bone pain and fractures
  • Pain with neurovascular and trophic signs and symptoms
  • Degree of disability
Spinal pain, sensory and motor problems
  • Radiculopathy
  • Cauda equina syndrome
  • Spinal cancer
  • Fractures: vertebral compression, ribs, spondylolisthesis
  • Shingles/herpes zoster

Upper extremity pain, sensory and motor problems

  • Rotator cuff tears
  • Shoulder, elbow, wrist dislocation
  • Fractures: radial head and neck; supracondylar; scaphoid
  • Severe peripheral neuropathy
  • Severe Raynaud’s disease
  • Complex regional pain syndrome: reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia

Lower extremity pain, sensory and motor problems:

  • Avascular necrosis of the hip
  • Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
  • Vascular claudication
  • Ankle/foot fractures
  • Deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism
  • Compartment syndrome

Headaches and oro-facial pain 

  • TIAs, strokes and aneurysms
  • Temporal arteritis
  • Bacterial sinusitis
  • Acute closed-angle glaucoma
  • Non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • Severe sore throat

Organ pain

  • Chest and respiratory pain
  • Abdominal and digestive pain
  • Urinary and reproductive systems pain

Systemic and Psycho-Social Complaints

  • Limb swelling and pulse abnormalities
  • Fatigue and changes in weight
  • Dizziness and altered mental function
  • Substance abuse, depression and suicidality
  • Signs and symptoms of abused and neglected patients

Making and Building Referrals

  • The art of building referral relationships to enhance patient safety and volume.
  • Protocols for effective and timely referrals
  • Documentation of management and referrals
Recommended text: An Acupuncturist’s Guide to Medical Red Flags and Referrals, David Anzaldua, M.D.

Student Ratings and Comments

from evaluations as required by California Acupuncture Board

Respondents: 8 of 13 enrolled

Average rating:  5/5

Comments:

“Awesome class as usual, great guest presenters!” –Marian Blum, L.A.c

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Stabilizing and Mobilizing Joints With Prolo-Acupuncture

With Instructor Anthony Von der Muhll, L.Ac., DAOM, DNBAO, FAIPM

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Billed once per year until cancelled

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--Ebooks are included with class purchase--please do not purchase both. When purchased separately, Ebooks are for informational purposes only--no PDAs/CEUs.

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Ligaments, or 韧带 rèndài

join bones to bones, and may be considered part of the 经 筋 jīngjīn, or myofascial/sinew meridians. Yet assessing and treating ligament injuries is literally a “missing link” in much acupuncture training regarding musculoskeletal pain and disability. Simple and easily-learned techniques for needling ligaments can stimulate self-repair and improve outcomes by helping to:

  • Accelerate healing and reduce chronicity from acute sprains/strains;
  • Re-stabilize hypermobile joints, and restore normal joint tracking and biomechanics;
  • Slow and allow for reversal of joint degeneration that leads to osteoarthrosis;
  • Enhance the treatment of muscles, nerves, and other tissues and systems that contribute to chronic pain.

Ligaments and Joints Covered:

Shoulder, Arm and Hand

  • Acromio-clavicular joint: sprains, separations, chronic hypermobility
  • Gleno-humeral joint: sprains, AMBRI, TUBS and SLAP lesions
  • Transverse humeral ligament: bicipital tendon subluxations
  • Elbow collateral ligaments: sprains, subluxations
  • Wrist ulnar- and radio-carpal ligaments and the triangular fibrocartilage complex: sprains, tears, chronic hypermobility

Hip, Knee, Ankle and Foot

  • Knee patellar, collateral and cruciate ligaments: sprains, chronic hypermobility
  • Knee menisci and the tibio-meniscal ligament: sprains, degeneration
  • The superior and inferior tibio-fibular joints: sprains, chronic hypermobility
  • Lateral ankle/foot: ATF, CF, PTF and CC ligaments: sprains, chronic hypermobility
  • Medial ankle: hyper-pronation, deltoid and spring ligaments: chronic hypermobility

The Spine

  • Cervical and lumbar facet joints: sprains, dysfunction, chronic hyper- and hypo-mobility
  • Posterior sacro-iliac, ilio-lumbar and sacro-tuberous ligaments: dysfunctions, degeneration
  • Supraspinous ligament: whiplash, sprains

Anatomy and Patho-anatomy

  • Functional/clinical anatomy, patho-anatomy of the main and commonly-injured joints of the body, in AOM and standard contemporary medical terms
  • Common etiologies and prognoses for common injuries and pain of the major joints of the body, in AOM and standard contemporary medical terms

Assessment

  • Performing a physical exam for common injuries and pain of the major joints of the body, including observation, inspection, palpation and special orthopedic tests for joint range-of-motion, tracking and end-feel/stability
  • Red flags for serious/urgent joint injuries and pain that warrant referral to physician care

Treatment

Treatment for common joint injuries with acupuncture, including ligamentous prolo-acupuncture (“dry”) needling, electro-acupuncture, and 7-star needling.

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Elbow and Forearm Review and Practicum Lab

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  • Practice, apply, re-inforce and expand upon physical examination and treatment techniques taught in the associated didactic module.
  • Labs focus on areas of particular technical difficulty, and provide an opportunity for presentation, demonstration treatment and discussion of challenging cases.
  • Note: Practicum/Review Labs are open only to participants who have completed the prior associated didactic module: Elbow, Forearm, Wrist, Hand.

Elbow joint review:

  • Joint play and end-feel testing
  • Ligamentous prolo-acupuncture for elbow joint re-stabilization

Elbow and forearm muscle review: manual strength testing, trigger point needling, and gua sha therapy

  • Triceps brachii
  • Biceps brachii and supinator
  • Pronators teres and quadratus
  • Brachialis
  • Brachioradialis

Wrist joint review:

  • Joint-play/end feel testing: ulnar-carpal, radio-carpal, and distal radio-ulnar joints
  • Ligamentous prolo-acupuncture for wrist joint re-stabilization

Forearm and wrist muscle review: manual strength testing, trigger point needling, and gua sha therapy

  • Flexors carpi ulnaris and radialis
  • Extensors carpi ulnaris and radialis

Hand and finger joint review:

  • Joint-play/end feel testing: carpo-metacarpal, metacarpo-phalangeal, and interphalangeal joints
  • Ligamentous prolo-acupuncture for wrist joint re-stabilization

Hand and finger strength testing review: dynanometer measurement

  • Grip strength
  • Pinch strength
  • Manual testing

Case presentation/demonstration treatment and discussion

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Essentials of Integrative Acupuncture Orthopedics + Basics of Shoulder Injuries and Pain: 2017 ACCHS DAOM Videos

Content Video
DAOM Integrative Acupuncture Orthopedics Program Overview 1 Link
DAOM Integrative Acupuncture Orthopedics Program Overview 2 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics Intro Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics Overview Link
DAOM, IAO / Shoulder Basics, Chronic Pain Overview Link
DAOM, IAO / Shoulder Basics, Degenerative Pain Cascade Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Ergonomics & Posture 1 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Ergonomics & Posture 2 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Range of Motion 1 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Range of Motion 2 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Anatomy/Physiology 1 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment Overview 1 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment Overview 2 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment Overview 3 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Anatomy Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Physical Exam 1 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Physical Exam 2 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Physical Exam 3 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Physical Exam 4 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Physical Exam 5 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Physical Exam 6 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Physical Exam 7 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment 1 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment 2 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment 3 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment 4 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics, Treatment 5 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics (day 2) History & Physical Exam Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics (day 2) History & Physical Exam 2 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics (day 2) Treatment 6 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics (day 2) Treatment 7 Link
DAOM, Shoulder Basics (day 2) Physical Exam Review Link

Shoulder, Arm, Hand — Review and Practicum Lab

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--Ebooks are included with class purchase--please do not purchase both. When purchased separately, Ebooks are for informational purposes only--no PDAs/CEUs.

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Mon, January 8, 2024, 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time, 1600 Broadway, Oakland CA
8 PDAs approved
CAB CEUs available on request received prior to 12-08-2024

Course Content

  • Practice, apply, re-inforce and expand upon physical examination and treatment techniques taught in the associated didactic module.
  • Labs focus on areas of particular technical difficulty, and provide an opportunity for presentation, demonstration treatment and discussion of challenging cases.
  • Note: Practicum/Review Labs are open only to participants who have completed the prior associated didactic module: Shoulder Girdle, Arm, Hand.

Shoulder Girdle:

  • AROM/PROM, joint-play/end feel testing and prolo-acupuncture for the acromio- and sterno-clavicular and glenohumeral joints
  • Muscle strength and length testing for the shoulder girdle
  • Manual and exercise therapies and taping for the shoulder girdle

Elbow joint review:

  • Joint play and end-feel testing
  • Ligamentous prolo-acupuncture for joint stabilization

Elbow and forearm muscle review: manual strength testing, trigger point needling, and gua sha therapy

  • Triceps brachii and anconeus
  • Biceps brachii and supinator
  • Pronators teres and quadratus
  • Brachioradialis
  • Forearm extensors and flexors

Wrist joint review:

  • AROM measurement
  • Joint-play/end feel testing: ulnar-carpal, radio-carpal, and distal radio-ulnar joints

Hand and finger joint review:

  • AROM measurement
  • Joint-play/end feel testing: carpo-metacarpal, metacarpo-phalangeal, and interphalangeal joints

Hand and finger strength testing review: dynanometer measurement

  • Grip strength
  • Pinch strength
  • Manual testing

Case presentation/treatment demonstration and discussion

Low Back, Core and Pelvic Girdle — Review and Practicum Lab

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--Ebooks are included with class purchase--please do not purchase both. When purchased separately, Ebooks are for informational purposes only--no PDAs/CEUs.

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Monday, May 6, 2024, 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
at ACCHS, 1600 Broadway, Oakland CA
8 NCCAOM PDAs approved
CAB CEUs Category 1 available on request received prior to March 31, 2024

Course Content:

  • Practice, apply, re-inforce, expand upon physical examination and treatment techniques taught in the associated didactic module.
  • Labs focus on areas of technical difficulty, and presentation & demonstration treatment and discussion of challenging cases.
  • Note: Practicum/Review Labs are open only to participants who have completed the prior associated didactic module: Low Back, Core, Pelvic Girdle.

Central Nervous System Exam

  • Upper motor neuron pathologic reflexes

Lumbo-Sacral Spine Exam

  • Lower extremity reflexes
  • Lower extremity sensory exam
  • Lower extremity myotome exam
  • Lumbar AROM assessment
  • Manual strength testing of gluteals, hip external rotators, and iliopsoas

Low Back, Core, and Pelvic Girdle Treatment

  • Prolo-acupuncture for lumbar facets, sacro-iliac and pubic symphysis joints, and iliolumbar and sacrotuberous ligaments
  • Soft joint mobilizations for lumbar facets, sacro-iliac and pubic symphysis joints
  • Trigger point needling, gua sha, and manual therapies for lumbar, abdominal and gluteal musculature, including quadratus lumborum and iliopsoas
  • Core strengthening therapeutic exercises

Case presentation/treatment demonstration and discussion

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Head, Neck, Thorax — Review and Practicum Lab

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Monday 7-31-23, 9 am-6 pm, at ACCHS 1600 Broadway, Oakland CA
NCCAOM PDAs approved - CAB CEUs pending

  • Apply, practice, re-inforce, expand upon physical exam and treatment techniques taught in the associated didactic module.
  • Labs focus on areas of particular difficulty, and include presentation, demonstration treatment and discussion of challenging cases.
  • Note: Practicum/Review Labs are open only to participants who have completed the prior associated didactic module: Head, Neck, Thorax.

Head and Central Nervous System Exam

  • Cranial nerve exam
  • Central nervous system exam

Cervico-thoracic Spine Exam

  • Upper extremity reflexes
  • Upper extremity motor exam
  • Cervical and thoracic spine active range-of-motion assessment
  • Ribcage excursion assessment

Cervico-thoracic Spine Treatment

  • Tui na joint mobilization and prolo-acupuncture for cervical subluxations and facet joint arthropathy
  • Trigger needling, gua sha, and manual therapies for trapezius, levator scapula, scalenes, sternocleidomastoid, multifidi, and intercostal muscles

Case presentation/treatment demonstration and discussion