A live presentation of the AI-PAMI Patient and Caregiver Presentation "How Acupuncture and Acupressure Can Treat Pain" by Brooke Stuart, AP, DACM, an integrative practitioner and Douglas Suffield, MAcOM, Pain Education Specialist at UF Health Jacksonville. Our panel of acupuncturists provide an overview of acupuncture, its origins, the evidence for its use with pain and how you can apply acupressure techniques to similar body points for self-management of pain. They also provide useful acupuncture and acupressure resources for those looking to get started with finding an acupuncturists and trying the integrative technique.
Table of Contents:
•Introduction
•Acupuncture Overview
•Chinese Medicine
•Conditions That Acupuncture Can Treat
•How Acupuncture Works
•Clinical Application
•Pain Management Protocols
•Find A Practitioner + Resources
The Aging and Integrative Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (AI-PAMI) is a comprehensive project addressing non-opioid pain management in adults ages 50 and older living in Northeast Florida. The overall goal of AI-PAMI is the advancement of innovative pain education and patient care focused on multimodal and integrative pain management.
Learn more: pami.emergency.med.jax.ufl.edu
12 май 2021
