Acupuncture Foundation Course (5-days)

This course will run over 5 days (dates below) from 9am - 4pm each day.

• 20th & 21st July 2024

• 3rd & 4th August 2024
• 14th September 2024

Just Therapy Education (formerly ALIED) was originally conceived after using and studying Acupuncture for several years within Physiotherapy practice. All the tutors teaching the Just Therapy Education Foundation course have completed advanced Acupuncture Training to MSc level and all have extensive experience in clinical practice. Just Therapy was developed with the purpose of bringing Acupuncture into the world of evidence based pain management, progressing with its use in evidencebased management of selected disorders. It offers a unique ability to integrate Acupuncture within clinical management.

Just Therapy Education seeks to teach students on its training courses effective, safe, efficient Acupuncture treatment, which will both complement clinical management and provide relevant up to date research results, attempting to integrate Acupuncture philosophy within a scientific paradigm. All students are taught accurate point identification, core standards of needling, safety and effectiveness together with physiology, anatomy and integrated patient management.

The course will equip students with grounding in current NHS and private practice policy providing sound arguments for its use within clinical reasoning and effective practice, substantiated by current research.

The Tutors are experienced clinicians, clinical educators and have a background in providing educational material within University and postgraduate teaching areas.

The aim is to provide all students with competent, safe, effective Acupuncture skills both within the clinical setting and with a research background. This is provided initially within the core of the Basic Course at foundation level and later on more advanced courses at post-basic and advanced levels.

The emphasis of the course is on:

• Practical application and needling skills
• Theoretical underpinning of needling philosophy (Scope of Acupuncture within professional scope of practice, Limitations of Acupuncture, Advantages)
• Range, purpose and limitations of different Acupuncture approaches
• Evidence based underpinning of Traditional theories wherever possible
• Evidence based theories underpinning western scientific Acupuncture theory
• Anatomy
• Safe needling
• Physiology

Pathology The tutors will ensure that students are fully aware of:

• Professional standards and codes of conduct in Acupuncture application
• Current Acupuncture legislation and practice codes (Incorporating current Health and safety legislation, Scottish requirements o Needle policy, Sharps contracts, Proposed government changes to the Acupuncture profession)
• Confidentiality
• Consent (Different forms of consent and how they apply, Informed Consent)
• Practice management (Record keeping, Clinical records for audit, Working knowledge of the audit cycle, Information storage)
• Critical evaluation (Current research, Acupuncture techniques, Acupuncture protocols)

Sports therapists are welcome as long as they hold a degree in sports therapy.

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