With AOM Modalities
With Instructor Anthony Von der Muhll, L.Ac., DNBAO, FAIPM
Understanding Chronic Pain: Essential Knowledge
- Acupuncture and the opioid epidemic: opportunities, risks, challenges and roles for acupuncturists
- Understanding pain as a subjective perception of past, current or potential tissue damage
- Neural sensitization: a common mechanism in chronic pain
- Neuromusculoskeletal anatomy: surface (palpatory), sub-surface, kinesiology, kinematic chains and the jing-jin ("myofascial meridians") tissue histology
- Communication and education
- Managing and transforming maladaptive hopes, expectations, fears, assumptions, beliefs, habits, behaviors
- Paradigm shift: from passive pain relief to pro-active functional restoration
- Pain psychology and behaviors: a five-element perspective
- Explaining acupuncture mechanisms and effects to patients and other medical professionals
Essential Skills for Working in Integrative Pain Management
- Communication with other providers: roles and the licensure hierarchy
- Medical documentation & report-writing for coordination of care and referral-building
- Patient/condition selection: knowing the strengths and limits of your knowledge, skills, and abilities
Essential History and Physical Exam Skills in Pain Management
Neck and shoulder pain as an example
- Ruling out urgent conditions
- Active range-of-motion
- Passive range-of-motion and joint play testing
- Manual strength testing
AOM Treatment by Tissue and Pattern Identification
Neck and shoulder pain as example
- Gua sha and tui na
- Electro-acupuncture
- Active cupping
- Lancet, 3-edged and 7-star needling
- Myofascial trigger needling
- Ligamentous prolo-acupuncture
- Distant needling
- Classical Chinese jing fang herbal formulas
