Name: Tuina [Post Grad 6 Month Course]
Start: 2025-01-10T10:00:00+00:00
Location: College of Integrated Chinese Medicine

🖐️ This newly revamped and refreshed post-graduate course now runs as a 6 month program at the college, starting on 10th January 2025.
The course is continuing to be presented by principal teacher Alex Evans, alongside Kevin Young with his 20+ years experience, plus a special addition of internationally renowned tuina author and teacher Sarah Pritchard, who is focusing on tuina and moxa for menstrual and fertility issues.
Given that tuina is one of the four main pillars of Chinese Medicine, this course will equip you to use tuina as a stand-alone therapy or as an effective therapeutic addition to your acupuncture practice.

Tuina is a complete medical system, with a comprehensive set of diagnostics and techniques. As such, it can increase the effectiveness of your treatments by:
✅ adding a thorough hands-on palpation-based approach to your existing skill set, diagnosing and treating a wide range of issues, from muscular-skeletal injuries to internal organs disharmonies, to Shen based issues
✅ enhancing your palpation abilities to be able to diagnose a wide range of pathologies by feeling the body’s qi and blood imbalances.
✅ providing you with a deeply calming and relaxing treatment which yields powerful results
✅ allowing you to apply pressure and stimulation to acupuncture points for needle phobic patients
✅ combining tuina with acupuncture to strengthen your treatments, speeding up the healing process and outcomes
✅ allowing you to stimulate parts of the body with appropriate tuina techniques, to address disharmony and nourish patients
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📚 Tuina Diploma - 6 months
🧑‍🏫 Alex Evans, Kevin Young & Sarah Pritchard
📆 Starts Friday 10th January 2025
🏫 In-person at CICM
💰 £1850
🐦 Early bird discount of £100, if paid in full by 10th Nov 2024
💳 Payment plans by monthly direct debit also available
🤲 Open to those with a recognised 3 year qualification in acupuncture
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As a highly practical course, there is a focus on developing the physical skills and techniques needed to become a competent tuina practitioner.
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🖐️ Phase 1 - Techniques
Introduces you to the 20 most common techniques used in clinical practice, and the most common sinew stretches. This module will teach you to be able to use structural analysis and channel palpation skills, be able to diagnose and differentiate various pathologies by practicing on each other, match techniques with diagnosis, and protect yourself using qigong.

🖐️ Phase 2 - Diagnostics
You will be taught how to increase your palpation skills to diagnose and differentiate a wide range of pathologies - Qi Stagnation versus Blood stagnation for example. You will be able to use structural analysis and channel palpation skills by practicing on each other to match techniques with diagnosis.
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🖐️ Phase 3 – Applications and Specialist Combined Techniques
Building on the techniques already taught and assessed, students will learn how to apply these techniques to a wide range of symptoms, including an in-depth focus on using tuina and moxa for menstrual and fertility issues. Compound tuina techniques will be demonstrated, as well as how to effectively combine acupuncture and tuina, such as using Master Tung points in tuina.

🖐️ Phase 4 - Pre Clinic Preparation
Prior to clinic, students will understand optimum patient positioning, and identify red flags or blocks to treatment. You will devise a treatment plan and be able to demonstrate this on a classmate.

🖐️ Phase 5 - Clinic
This takes place in the college clinic under supervision and will be assessed on an ongoing basis. In addition to clinic, there will be class discussions on patients, and lectures on various topics including standard treatments for common ailments, treating chronic conditions and the use of balms and oils.
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For more information, course dates and to book your place, click here - https://www.acupuncturecollege.org.uk/info/courses/post-graduate-diplomas/tuina-25/
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Or get in touch with our registrar Jo Brown, who will be happy to answer any questions you may have about this course - [email protected] or on 01189 508 889
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