Management Pain Syndromes & Avoid Opiate Drug Addiction

Course overview

Treating Pain and Opioid addictions are truly opportunities and as well as a challenges for TCM practitioners in US. First stop pain; second is how do help people to quit the addiction to opioid drug. Does the TCM practitioner have enough knowledge and technique reserve power to relieve pain? Can Acupuncture completely replace the opioid drug? What pain syndromes are the right indication for acupuncture? For overcome the opioid addiction, what is the correct acupuncture procedure? What is the prospect result in a short term and long term? All these questions should be addressed and answered by our TCM practitioners. The advance research for the mechanism of acupuncture analgesia provide a great evidence. Clinically, the most challenge cases are from post surgery and newly traumatic injury patients. Due to the limitation of time and space, TCM practitioners cannot reach the patient on time. Opioid pain medicines are the absolutely thing to be prescription, which creates many addiction patients. To avoid and prevent opioid addiction, the best way to improve the way how to practice acupuncture and invent new technique for this challenging situation. To treat Shen mind and elevate patient pain threshold, the Cross Needling technique is used. To collect the traditional and modern acupuncture manipulation technique for pain management, such as Si Guan Point, Pi Zhen and many other micro-needling systems. It is necessary to develop a convenient device to be carried with patient, to develop more efficient herbal medicine for pain relief, to take the advantage of needling combination with herbal medicine for all the pain syndromes. For successful abstinence of opioid pain drug, based on personal clinical experience, there are eleven multiple approaches to be followed. This is the only way to keep patient completely away from opioid drug.