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The use of Kiiko Matsumoto's & Myofascial Treatment Strategies in Gynecological Conditions: Uncovering the Deep Neuroanatomic Map of Somato-Viscero/Viscero-Somatic Reflexes
Instructors: Joseph Audette, MA, MD and David Euler, LAc
We are pleased to announce another offering of an exciting education opportunity - a workshop exploring the use of Kiiko Matsumoto's and myofascial treatment strategies in gynecological conditions. This workshop will be presented in March 2008 by Dr. Joseph Audette and David Euler, LAc, the co-directors of the Harvard Continuing Medical Education course, Structural Acupuncture for Physicians. This two day workshop will combine lecture, case presentations, and hands-on work for physicians and acupuncturists who are interested in an expanded neuroanatomic understanding of the pain processing system and its relationship to viscero-somatic reflexes. This approach may provide the scientific basis of understanding classical forms of acupuncture as well as myofascial approaches to visceral pain. To assure a high quality learning experience,
attendance is limited to 40 participants.
Purpose and Objectives:
Acupuncture education and clinical research in the West has been largely shaped by either Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formulaic approaches to point selection or neuroanatomic considerations. This modern interpretation of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture as a method of determining a treatment strategy has been driven by reductionist, scientific influences, not always with the most positive results as demonstrated by recent studies showing no difference between TCM formulas and sham acupuncture needling for a number of pain conditions. Further reductionist influences in the West with, for example, the formalization of percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS) by White and Ghoname, have led to the strong influence of narrowly conceived neuroanatomical approaches to pain syndromes. Although this approach has been shown to provide short-term analgesic benefit, there have been no long-term studies to show the duration of the effect. Of equal importance to serious acupuncturists is the fact that these reductionist approaches do not allow us to understand the potential clinical benefit of more robust styles of acupuncture based on ancient Chinese Classical Texts such as the Nan-ching and Su Wen. Finally, there is little guidance from the literature to help guide us whether such a reductionist, neuroanatomical approach can be applied to visceral pain syndromes such as those that occur with gynecological disorders. We will present an argument based on basic science and clinical data that standard TCM and Neuroanatomical approaches to acupuncture fail to do justice to the clinical impact of more robust acupuncture styles such as is seen in Japan today.
The Workshop will present basic science and clinical data to support that visceral pain conditions can be both diagnosed and treated by a deeper neuroanatomic understanding of the pain processing system with special focus on viscero-somatic reflexes and that this approach may provide the scientific basis of understanding classical forms of acupuncture as well as myofascial approaches to visceral pain. In particular, discussion will include the neuroanatomic basis for a method of acupuncture point selection and treatment that is rooted in the Chinese classical theory as interpreted by Kiiko Matsumoto. The Workshop will then conclude with a clinical exposition and demonstration of the technique and show how myofascial approaches can be integrated into this model.
Accreditation:
The American Academy of Medical Acupuncture is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Medical Acupuncture designates the Workshop for a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the activity.
Target Audience:
Pain specialists, physiatrists, family practitioners, internists, neurologists, anesthesiologists, obstetricians and gynecologists - physicians and licensed acupuncturists who want to improve their palpation skills and learn objective clinical findings that can be integrated with needling and physical medicine strategies.
Learning Objectives:
The overall objectives for physicians attending the Workshop:
- Become familiar with the historic factors that led to the standardization of modern Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (TCM) formulaic approaches to point selection and reductionist, neuranatomical approaches.
- Recognize the inevitable research equivalence of TCM formulaic acupuncture with Sham acupuncture needling.
- Understand a more profound neuroanatomical model of acupuncture based on the deep organization of viscero-somatic and somato-visceral reflexes that can serve as basis for understanding point specificity as demonstrated with Kiiko Matsumoto's techniques and the myofascial representation of visceral disease.
- Learn about an approach to diagnosis, point selection, and needling for Gynecological Disorders based on the interpretation of classic Chinese acupuncture texts by a modern Japanese master, Kiiko Matsumoto.
- Be able to integrate myofascial approaches to Gynecological Disorders as part of an overall acupuncture treatment strategy.
About the Faculty:
David Euler, LAc. - Mr. Euler is a recognized authority on Japanese styles of acupuncture and has worked in close collaboration with Kiiko Matsumoto for over 15 years. He has taught acupuncture to physicians in Israel and Germany and has taught locally at the New England School of Acupuncture. He specializes in translating Chinese theories of medicine into western terms.He is Course Co-Director of the Harvard Continuing Medical Education course, Structural Acupuncture for Physicians and author of Kiiko Matsumoto Clinical Strategies, Vol. 1., 2002.
Joseph Audette, MA, MD - Dr. Audette earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1991 and completed a residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York in 1995 and is board certified in PM&R and Pain. While in New York, he was trained in acupuncture at the Tristate School of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and has been mentored in Kiiko Matsumoto's system over the last 10 years in Boston. He is currently the Director of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's Outpatient Pain Services. He has lectured and written extensively on topics including Myofascial Pain, Pain Rehabilitation, and Acupuncture. His clinical and research interests include myofascial pain, chronic pain, acupuncture, and Tai Chi. He is Co-Director of the Harvard Continuing Medical Education course, Structural Acupuncture for Physicians and Medical Director Spaulding Outpatient Pain Services, Harvard Medical School.
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The workshop will be held as follows:
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Ask for AAMA Workshop room rate
$139 Single/Double
(Available until January 29 OR
when block sells out)
Call (847) 696-1234
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The schedule for the workshop will be as follows:
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*There will be a 15 minute break each morning and afternoon and a one and a half hour luncheon break (lunch is not included - participants are on their own for lunch).
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REGISTRATION
Attendance is limited to 40 participants in order to provide the optimum learning experience. Complete the attached registration form and submit it to the Academy's office. Registrations will be accepted in the order received until the course is full at 40 participants. After the course is full, you will be notified and your fee returned, or you may go on the 'wait list' should there be a cancellation. To avoid missing out, you should send in your registration and make a room reservation as soon as possible. Each participant is responsible for his or her own travel and hotel expenses. Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
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