Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture Intensive: Mastering Foundations and Clinical Application

Event recorded 18th to 19th May 2024.

Course Description

Welcome to our Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture Recorded Course, your gateway to unlocking the full potential of Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture with Dr Emily Teo.

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA) is an acupuncture microsystem developed in 1973 by Dr. Toshikatsu Yamamoto. This innovative approach harnesses anatomical and channel somatotopes to modulate biologically-mediated signaling. It offers a targeted solution for addressing neurological disorders, and is a world-renowned acupuncture system for providing both symptomatic relief and root treatment effects to individuals with restricted mobility. Explore this groundbreaking system that paves the way for holistic well-being.

Course Overview

Building a Strong Foundation
Begin the YNSA journey by delving into the essential fundamentals and concepts that will solidify diagnosis, mechanism, regions and point locations.

YNSA Basic Points
Learn all the point locations and the full system from the leading expert in the field:

• A to I
• Sensory
• Cranual and ypsilon points
• Somatopes
• J,K,I chest

Diagnostic Techniques
Learn crucial diagnostic techniques, including the areas/points of elbow, neck, abdominal and Hegu assessments:

• Elbow
• Neck
• Abdomen
• Hegu

Formulating Treatment Protocols
Emily will offer only the best clinical pearls within the course to make it easy and clear for all participants.

Advancing Your Skills with Extra Points
Elevate your YNSA understanding and application further as you explore advanced techniques and extra points in this fascinating Scalp Acupuncture System. This will encompass the topics of:

Extra Points: 

• Correlation points
• Tinnitus points
• C and C-reflected points
• Soleus points for hand and fingers
• Throat points
• Perineal points
• Groin points,
• J K thorax lumbar points.

Case Studies: Defining the application of YNSA in neuro MSK problems.

Throughout this course, you will not only become well-versed in YNSA but also gain the knowledge and experience required to seamlessly integrate these techniques into your acupuncture practice. Join us on this exciting journey as you work towards upskilling and becoming an expert of a system and technique that doesn’t take years to learn. This is because the effect of each point is easy to understand as the needle is inserted into the point connected to the site of the symptom cause (the location projected on the head).

To enable fast learning and implementation, the technique has been systemised and you will be able to take away another technique which produces oft-times miraculous results.

About Dr Emily Teo

Dr Emily Teo graduated in medicine from the University of New South Wales in 1970. She started studying acupuncture in 1987, and in 1993 obtained her Fellowship from the Australian Medical Acupuncture College. In 2002, she obtained her Master in Applied Science, majoring in Acupuncture. Throughout her career, she has been deeply involved in acupuncture education, as lecturer, tutor, mentor and examiner.

YNSA started as a chance encounter with Dr Toshikatsu Yamamoto in Vienna in 2000 and since then became a direct disciple for over 23 years with Dr Yamamoto along with being a close friend.

In 2004, Dr Teo, as Chair of Education, AMAC, invited Dr Yamamoto to run the first YNSA workshop in Australia, at the ICMART Congress in Sydney Australia. Dr Yamamoto has over the years conducted six workshops in Sydney, Perth, and in 2017, a workshop in Brisbane. Dr Teo has also conducted a series of YNSA workshops in Australia across several states and has mentored students from these courses. More recently, she has also conducted YNSA workshops overseas.

Dr Emily Teo runs a full time acupuncture practice in Australia, with YNSA as the main technique offered. To keep up to date with the latest developments in YNSA, Dr Teo attends yearly workshops conducted by Dr Yamamoto in Miyazaki, Japan.

What You Get After You Complete The Course