What You Need to Succeed: Essential Skills in Managing Pain

With AOM Modalities

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

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Map out your path to clinical success in orthopedics and pain management! Participants will gain many immediately applicable take-home techniques and strategies, as well as an overview of how to develop knowledge, abilities, and marketability to compete in this rapidly-growing area of AOM specialization. If you are considering certification in Integrative Acupuncture Orthopedics through AOM Professional or advanced studies in orthopedics anywhere, this class is a great place to start!

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, the jing-jin ("myofascial meridians") tissue histology
  • Patient 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
  • Reflex and sensory testing

AOM Treatment by Tissue and Pattern Identification

Neck and shoulder pain as example

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