Course Overview

Kiiko Matsumoto is an internationally recognized Master in Acupuncture. She is a Chinese Medicine scholar and an author of multiple texts on Classical Acupuncture. These texts include Hara diagnosis, Extra Meridians, and her own books, Clinical Strategies Volumes 1 and 2. She has developed her own style of acupuncture, Kiiko Matsumoto Style (KMS), that is being translated into multiple languages. This class highlights her skill in protocols for chronic pain including protocols for trauma, painful scars, neuropathy, painful veins, inflamed nerves, diabetes, osteoarthritis, chondritis and abdominal pain.

This is an advanced course for those who have already studied in person with Kiiko.

Course Objectives

• The objectives of this class are to expose acupuncture practitioners to innovative ways to diagnose and treat patient's pain.
• To further studies in Japanese acupuncture and Moxa, especially Kiiko Matsumoto Style (KMS) directly from the founder.
• To examine case studies which illustrate methods for immediate resolution of pain.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 1 hrsIntroduction to Kiiko Matsumoto Style (KMS) acupuncture and concepts in chronic pain.

1 hrs - 2 hrsCase study of patient with traumatic spinal injury, bulging discs and stenosis.

2 hrs - 3 hrsContinue with traumatic spinal injury patient. Begin patient with chronic emotional trauma, traumatic injury, scars, and ligament injuries. Pain and scar tissue fron failed TENS unit implant.

3 hrs - 4 hrsPatient with chronic costocondritis.

4 hrs - 5 hrsPatient with chronic pain from the audience.

5 hrs - 6 hrsIntroduction to pain in diabetics.

6 hrs - 7 hrsCase study of diabetic patient with complicated foot pain and balance issues.

7 hrs - 8 hrsPatient with abdominal and digetive pain after stab wounds.

8 hrs - 9 hrsPatient with osteoarthritis, IBS, dysmenorrhea, and vestibular vulvadynia.

9 hrs - 10 hrsFollow up Q & A