Orthopedic Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain – Andrew Nugent-Head

This seminar focuses on treating shoulder injuries from a variety of etiologies. Whether it is a shoulder impingement, frozen shoulder, rotator cuff tear, or arthritic shoulder, Chinese medicine shines at providing a fast, tangible recovery if the right treatment is given. Andrew will cover different treatments for different types of injury, providing the theory, treatment method, demonstration and then partnered training to ensure the material is completely understood. Emphasis will be placed on the structure, function and pathways of the tendo-meridian sinew channels of the body which are integral in the treatment of orthopaedic injury.

The seminar will also cover a nuanced approach to identifying the location of Ashi points and treating them with specific needle techniques. This refined method of orthopaedic treatment yields remarkable clinical results that moves practitioners beyond trigger or motor point theory.

What You Will Learn

• The role and treatment of tendino-meridian channels in shoulder injuries, with a walkthrough of each individual channel and the type of shoulder pathology it relates to in order to allow for clarity of diagnosis in clinic
• Specific orthopaedic needle manipulations and how to tailor them to your patient base
• A multifaceted approach to Ashi points including learning how they form, how to identify which ones are relevant to a specific injury locally and distally and how to treat them with appropriate techniques
• Simple bodywork techniques to integrate with acupuncture
• All techniques will be demonstrated on volunteers from the audience and will be followed by partnered practice to ensure the material is fully understood

Details

DATES: 7-8th September 2019

TIME: 9:00am – 4:00pm each day

CPD: 12 CPD points

PRICING

• Practitioner Early Bird (expires August 16th 2019) – $595
• Student Early Bird (expires August 16th 2019) – $495
• Practitioner – $675
• Student – $575

Includes morning & afternoon tea and notes

*Cancellations: Registrations cancelled up to 1-week prior to seminar will be refunded less 20%. We regret that refunds are not otherwise possible.

About Andrew

Andrew Nugent-Head lived in China for 28 years, studying under the last pre-liberation practitioners there in traditional mentor-disciple relationships. He studied classical Chinese and Daoism with the late scholar and calligrapher Wang Jin-Huai; he was the last formal disciple, translator and confidant of the late Yin style Bagua practitioner Xie Peiqi and is the closing door disciple of professor Li Hongxiang. Also no stranger to the official Chinese medical world, he has interned at the Hospital of Chinese Medicine and is a student of the doctoral program of Zhejiang University of Chinese Medicine. Dedicated to teaching Chinese medicine, martial arts and internal cultivation in a tangible, application focused manner, Andrew returned to the United States in 2014 and is the chief practitioner of The Alternative Clinic, a Chinese medicine teaching clinic in Asheville, North Carolina.