Archive for January, 2010
Comparing acupuncture school´s in portugal – part VI
Sunday, January 31, 2010 15:31 No CommentsI have no doubt that many professional accredited by the weekend school´s will become excellent in this art. I have friends who took the course in APA-DA and are performing successfully. I have treated patients who had previously been treated by acupuncturists licensed by the APA-DA and had nothing bad to say. On the contrary. [...]
Comparing acupuncture school´s in Portugal – part V
Friday, January 29, 2010 21:41 No CommentsAmong the various attacks on the 3 parameters I used to advise prospective students are: (1) its subjectivity and (2) the presentation of other factors that are more beneficial to their school as the quality of teaching methods, ability and level training of teachers, career opportunities or relationship with other foreign institutions.
In fact the parameters [...]
Comparing Acupuncture School´s in Portugal – part IV
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 21:31 No CommentsWhen I criticize the clinical practice that is rare or totally absent in many courses on the weekends I am also attacked. There are people who take courses on weekends, and will receive the qualification for the job market without having seen a single patient throughout the course. Many have to learn the techniques of [...]
Comparing Acupuncture School´s in Portugal – part III
Monday, January 25, 2010 0:19 No CommentsI tend to be very attacked by students of APA-DA who do not agree with my ideas. Some try a more constructive dialogue, at least initially, thinking that can support their arguments. Others not so:
“They don´t need for any individual to make the devil’s advocate in response to criticism of their institution, entitling himself as [...]
Comparing Acupuncture School´s in Portugal – part II
Saturday, January 23, 2010 20:04 No CommentsFaced with these facts how can a student make a conscious choice of a course that can ensure him a minimally adequate education. Not being a regulated profession, there isn´t governmental aproved courses (accredited by the Portuguese government) and is subject to all kinds of advertising, without the existence of departments or institutions that can [...]
BACK SHU POINTS – Traditional Chinese Acupuncture
Thursday, January 21, 2010 0:04 1 CommentThese points are yang in nature, because they belong to the bladder meridian that is yang in nature. Moreover all other meridians that pass through the back are yang in nature. They are a total of 12 points that link the zang fu. In the table below we do the appropriate matching and subsequent information on some of [...]
Researchers unlock secret behind acupuncture
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 0:04 2 Comments«After 3,000 years, the secrets of acupuncture have been unlocked by researchers.
Morry Silberstein, professor at Australia’s Curtin University of Technology (CUT), has developed a new theory that explains, for the first time, the scientific reasons why acupuncture works .
“We have never really had a scientific explanation for how acupuncture actually works,” he said. “If we [...]
Acupuncture Points to ease expectoration
Sunday, January 17, 2010 0:25 No CommentsOn this article I will advise you 3 important acupuncture points to treat ease expectoration. The points mentioned are: CV22, CV17 and extra point Dingchuan.
Point CV22 is located in the sagittal midline, in a depression just above the superior part of the sternum bone. The pressure located in this point allows you an improvement of [...]
Types of trigger points
Friday, January 15, 2010 0:35 No CommentsThere are 3 types of trigger points. This form of classification helps us to understand the relationship between trigger points and among the symptoms they trigger. The 3 types of trigger points are: (1) active trigger points, (2) latent trigger points (3) and satellite trigger points.
The active trigger points are a continuing source of pain.
The [...]
Comparing Acupuncture School´s in Portugal – Part I
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 0:49 No CommentsMany may look at this text as an attack on their schools. On several occasions, may well be so. However, I intend to show to different readers the different schools and problems that arise in some of them. Before writing this text I struggle with a morality question between not write to affect other schools [...]

