Continuing Education

Dates: Sunday May 6th, 2012

Times: 9 am to 5 pm

Cost: Current SIOM Students $100, SIOM Alumni $125, Other Practitioners $150

Location: Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine

Registration: Print out and mail or drop-off the Registration Form with your check. For questions about the seminar, e-mail: cmitchell@siom.edu.

CE Credits: Participants will receive 7 NCCAOM PDA credits for the completion of the seminar.

Gynecological problems are a common presentation in TCM & Oriental Medicine practice. With good reason, since we treat more women patients and TCM, particularly acupuncture, can be a very successful treatment for many gynecology issues. Often TCM gynecology focuses on Chinese herbs – this seminar focuses on acupuncture & moxibustion treatments, and what works in clinic, and includes case studies.

Infertility
Worldwide women suffer increasingly from infertility. We discuss the reproductive milieu and approach treatment strategies from East Asian Medicine perspectives. The focus is on clinical practice, practical application and sharing clinical experience of infertility treatments.

IVF Support
More & more women turn to IVF. Several studies (amongst others an Australian one) have shown that acupuncture is a helpful `complementary' therapy to support the IVF process and improve the success rate. `Doctor Google' steers these women to acupuncture. We discuss various approaches and protocols and practical issues.

Menopause
At the other end of the reproductive spectrum is menopause, which affects each woman more or less. More women suffer from menopausal symptoms and seek help. More of them may turn to us, now that HRT isn't so popular any more... Menopausal problems aren't always easy to treat and often require a more comprehensive treatment approach.
We look at practical treatment strategies of acupuncture and moxibustion, cases and practical demos.

This is a seminar that aims at:

• Being helpful, clinically oriented and hopefully inspiring.
• Giving a deeper insight into the treatment of infertility and menopause through differentiated and comprehensive treatment approaches and techniques; including pulse and abdominal diagnosis for the discussed syndromes.
• Giving tools for applying treatment approaches and strategies of acupuncture & moxa immediately in your practice, whether you practice Chinese or Japanese styles and techniques.

About your Presenter
Trudy R Zipf M.TCM (UWS) has practiced Oriental Medicine for about 20 years in Sydney, Australia. She treats a wide spectrum of patients with acupuncture and Chinese herbs, but specializes in Women's Health.
After her TCM training in Sydney and China (Zhejiang TCM Hospital, Hangzhou), Trudy was soon introduced to Japanese Meridian Therapy and then spent several clinical training periods in Japan with Edward Obaidey and Ikeda Masakazu. Ikeda Sensei is an acupuncturist & Kampo herbalist and an influential teacher of Meridian Therapy in Japan.* Trudy also studied further over 10 years through seminar intensives with Ikeda Sensei in Australia (and is still learning from it all…).
Trudy gained a Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine (University of Western Sydney). She is a guest lecturer in the Master's program in `Women's Health' and `Advanced Acupuncture'. She occasionally writes journal articles and teaches TCM colleagues in Australia & New Zealand on clinical practice oriented topics. Trudy is particularly interested in clinical relevance & application and the further development of our `healing art'.

* Ikeda Masakazu is a multiple author in the Japanese Traditional Medicine literature (amongst others on Hara Diagnosis, on the Nan Jing, etc.) and is the author of the following English translations:
„Traditional Japanese Acupuncture. Fundamentals of Meridian Therapy"(The Society of Traditional Japanese Medicine; edited by K. Kuwahara ). Complementary Medicine Press 2003.
„The Practice of Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Classic Principles in Action"(translated by Edward Obaidey). Eastland Press 2005.