Congress Programme now online

 

The State of the Art of Acupuncture in Integrative Medicine

 

Dear colleagues,

We are looking forward to welcome you to the Netherlands and so does the Australian ICMART-president. With a new general secretary after 25 years, there will likely be some alterations to the programme. The detailed programme is now available.

 

With her network in the European parliament she would like to introduce a forum of the Cambrella, that is the umbrella of CAM, Complementary Alternative Medicine, that has succeeded in getting the politicians interested in CAM-research. Nowadays we need the political acceptation and recognition of acupuncture so as to realize the wish of so many patients to be treated with acupuncture and be fully reimbursed by their health insurance.

 

For the integration of acupuncture in school medicine the chairman of the scientific committee has introduced round table conferences around one topic. He also likes to get everybody on the move through the digital construction of our congress site.

 

It has already resulted in letters from famous lecturers around the world, all willing to contribute to our ICMART symposium. But before diving into your interesting presentations of practice-based and evidence-based research, we would like to offer you a splendid opportunity to get rid of the winter blues and of the jetlag. One day before Congress begins, that is on Thursday the 12th of May, there will be the touristic tour to the wellknown 65 acres of magic carpet of millions of Tulip-bulbs in the flower park “Keukenhof”, just behind the Dunes.

 

We invite you to visit the congress website for an interesting social programme for the many accompanying persons, who can attend our welcome reception without fee. We hope to embrace you all in the renewed, enlarged China Town of the municipality of The Hague.

 

 

 

Mrs. Chun Lee Oei-Tan, MD, PhD President of the NAAV (Nederlandse Artsen Acupunctuur Vereniging)

 

 

 

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  • Dr.med.Walburg Marić-Oehler,MD

    Post-traumatic Stress Disorders – an integrative east-west psychosomatic approach

    As long as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder/PTSD is defined as a separate pattern in psychotherapeutic medicine it is diagnosed increasingly often in medical and psychotherapeutic practice.

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  • Brigitte Ausfeld-Hafter, MD, Switzerland

    CAM in Switzerland - A story of success

    Since the nineties, the field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Switzerland has markedly developed. Purpose of this review is to provide an overview about the past and the present status of CAM in Switzerland. Eventually, knowing the history is a good position to explore the future.

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  • Bianca Leutzow

    Investigation on the origin of far field short latency potentials evoked from auricular acupuncture

    Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt, University of Greifswald, Germany.

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  • Dr. med. Rainer Nögel

    Chinese Herbal Therapy – is it risky?

    This presentation deals with safety aspects of Chinese Herbal Therapy (CHT).
    It starts with a short introduction to the foundations and principles of CHT and then discusses potential risks of CHT.

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  • Jean Pierre Fossion, MD, Belgium

    Threats for acupuncture; answers to perceived threats

    “Does justified sceptical criticism by regular classical medicine prevent research into acupuncture by the prejudice that this research would be worthless anyway?

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  • Patrick Sautreuil

    Paraplegia and acupunctural signal

    Bio-electricity during acupuncture session for a paraplegic man echoes between acupoints above and below the lesion level.

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  • Keynote speeches

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  • Taras Usichenko, MD, Germany

    Auricular acupuncture for the treatment of pain

    Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Greifswald, Germany.

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  • Yusuf Özgür Çakmak,MD,Phd

    Electroacupuncture for Parkinson Disease: a Parkinson model of rat study

    Deep brain stimulation of subthalamic nucleus is a new approach to Parkinson Disease (PD) Therapies but it is an invasive technic for the patients.

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  • Dominik Irnich,MD

    Acupuncture is a key component in pain management

    To evaluate a multidisciplinary outpatient program in complementary and alternative medicine (MOCAM) for chronic pain patients based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Classical Natural Medicine/Naturopathy (CNM) and to define the role of individualised acupuncture in this setting.

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  • Jean Pierre Fossion, MD, Belgium

    Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control (DNIC) of Le Bars:

    Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control (DNIC) of Le Bars: Literature review about the responsible neurological circuits of DNIC explains new additional characteristics about acupoints not included in the description of Le Bars.

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  • MR Dr. med. Rainer Wander

    Neural therapy for acupuncture non responders

    Acupuncture activates our endogenous body inhibitory systems. If the endogenous evoked defensive action is not enough to cope with the problem, stimuli deletion processes must come in to help the body.

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  • Prof. Dr. R. Verpoorte

    Plants, health and (un)belief

    Since ancient times mankind has exploited nature for all kind of useful products and enjoyed the colors, flavors, and fragrances of flowers, food, etc. Presently, many fine chemicals are derived from plants and used as medicines, dyes, flavors, fragrances,

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  • David J. Kopsky, MD, The Netherlands

    Future directions of acupuncture in research and practice

    In the last 40 years, extensive research has been conducted on acupuncture concerning its effect and working mechanism. Meta-analysis and systematic reviews show that acupuncture is effective in a range of disorders

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  • Antonio Sant'Ana, Brasil

    Identification of different phases of electrical activity by fractal analysis of EEG

    The use of non linear resources in the study of natural sciences is a growing tendency.

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  • Yusuf Ozgur Cakmak, MD, PhD

    Decreasing uterine artery blood flow with electroacupunture in humans

    Western medical drugs can improve blood flow for all vessels simultaneously, but are not able to single out one target organ exclusively, without additional surgical intervention as arterial ligation.

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