PROGRAMME ICMART WORLD CONGRESS 2011

 

FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011

 

OPENING CEREMONY
ROOM A: 09.00 - 09.30

Welcome Address

  • Master of Ceremony: Beyens Francois
  • Zhang Jinxiong, Councillor Chinese Embassy
  • Chan Chin, Congress President , President ICMART
  • Oei-Tan Chun Lee, Congress President, President NAAV
  • Henk Kool, Deputy Mayor Municipality of The Hague

  • Marić-Oehler Walburg, Secretary General ICMART

 
EXPLANATION OF THE PROGRAMME 
ROOM A: 09.30 - 09.45

  • Kopsky David, Chairman Scientific Committee
  • Fossion Jean Pierre, Secretary Scientific Committee                                                                                        Determining the position of acupuncture in health care: SWOT - analysis

          
STRENGTHS OF ACUPUNCTURE
a call for clinical evidence
 
KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
ROOM A: 09.45 – 10.15

  • Chair: Usichenko Taras
  • Co-Chairs: Chan Chin & Oei-Tan Chun Lee
  • Irnich Dominik (Germany): Acupuncture is a key component in pain management              

 
10.15 – 10.45 BREAK - VISIT EXHIBITION AND POSTERS

ACUPUNCTURE IN PAIN MANAGEMENT
ROOM A: 10.45-12.00

  • Chair: Usichenko Taras
  • Co-Chairs: Oei-Tan Chun Lee & Chan Chin
  • Sudirman Syarif : The role of acupuncture in pain management  
  • Yoshizimi Alexandre Massao : Acupuncture for acute non-specific low back pain: a randomized, controlled, double-blind, placebo trial
  • Varma Vinay : Evidence based medical acupuncture in back pain
  • Gleditsch Jochen : The Very-Point Technique in chronic pain  

 
WORKING MECHANISMS OF ACUPUNCTURE
ROOM 5: 10.45 – 12.00

  • Chair: Irnich Dominik
  • Co-chairs: Sautreuil Patrick 
  • Fossion Jean Pierre : Diffuse noxious inhibitory control (dnic) of le bars: literature review about the responsable neurological circuits of dnic explains new additional characteristics about acupoints not included in the description of le bars
  • Leutzow Bianca : Investigation on the origin of far field short latency potentials evoked from auricular acupuncture points
  • Theodoratou Konstantina : Can acupoints have an additional convergent effect? a statistical study into five basic points

 
ACUPUNCTURE FOR REDUCING STRESS AND ANXIETY
ROOM 7: 10.45 – 12.00

  • Chair: Marić-Oehler Walburg

  • Co-chair: Sager Marshall
  • Marić-Oehler Walburg : Post-traumatic stress disorders – an integrative east-west psychosomatic approach
  • Nepp Johannes : Acupuncture and psychotherapy in phobic disorders                               
  • So Wing Sze Emily (China): A randomized study comparing one session with two sessions of non-invasive acupuncture in patients undergoing frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET)

 
PRACTICAL IMPLICATION OF INTEGRATING ACUPUNCTURE IN MEDICINE
ROOM 8: 10.45 – 12.00

  • Chair: Giralt Isabel
  • Co-chair: Pothmann Raymund
  • Muraközy Henriette :Complex „Pine”- Acupuncture as an effective part of multimodal pain management in rheumatologic disorders
  • Schockert Thomas : Successful application of acupuncture in emergency medicine – new case reports
  • Longo Francesco &Gazzola Margherita : Acupuncture pain treatment in horses

 
CONSENSUS PLENARY DISCUSSION 1
ROOM A: 12.15 – 13.00
Moderator: Kopsky David
Summary by the chairmen of the four parallel sessions followed by plenary discussion
Usichenko Taras, Irnich Dominik, Marić-Oehler Walburg, Giralt Isabel
 
13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH - VISIT EXHIBITION AND POSTERS

WEAKNESS OF ACUPUNCTURE
a call for solutions and applications
 
KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
ROOM   A: 14.30 – 15.00

  • Chair: Nögel Rainer
  • Co-chairs: Fossion Jean Pierre & Khoe-Go Mayke
  • Nögel Rainer: Chinese Herbal Therapy – is it risky?

 
CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE
ROOM A: 15.15 – 16.30

  • Chair: Nogel Rainer
  • Co-Chairs: Fossion Jean Pierre & Khoe-Go Mayke
  • Liu Cheng & Oei-Tan Chun Lee: Report of Second Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 249
  • Verpoorte Rob : Plants,health and (un)belief
  • Wauters Charles: RCT of menopause, a comparative study between hormone treatment, TCM and placebo
  • Wang Zhu Xing: Clinical observation of acupuncture and moxibustion, combining Chinese herbs, in the treatment of 36 cases of refractory primary trigeminal neuralgia

 
METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ACUPUNCTURE RESEARCH
ROOM 5: 15.15 – 16.30

  • Chair: Aung Steven
  • Co-chair: Fossion Ruben Y.M.
  • Smeets Jos : Randomised pragmatic controlled trial on COPD
  • Brignol Tuy Nga: Acupuncture Clinical Trials: a systematic review 
  • Brignol Tuy Nga: Can OPC (Objective Performance Criteria) used in FDA approval for medical devices represent an acceptable and scientifically valid alternative to show efficacy in clinical trials in acupuncture?
  • Yi Seung-Ho:   Thermal properties of warm needle acupuncture and its meaning to heat stimulus

 
ACUPUNCTURE AND POINT SPECIFICITY
ROOM 7: 15.15 – 16.30

  • Chair: Liertzer Helmut
  • Co-chair: Abut Mehmet
  • Park Hyun Kyu: Cerebral circulation and Korean Hand Acupuncture therapy
  • Park Hyun Kyu: Evidence based Korean Hand Acupuncture
  • Silva Joao:   The effects of so-called “forbidden acupuncture points” in the pregnancy’s outcome of Wistar rats

 
MICROSYSTEMS, LITTLE RESEARCH
ROOM 8: 15.15 – 16.30

  • Chair: Gleditsch Jochen
  • Co-chairs: Leysen Peter 
  • Frank Bryan L.: Pathophysiology expressed in advanced auricular therapy
  • Mastalier Oskar: New discovered Auricular Reflex-Point of the Ciliospinal Center in addiction treatment
  • Stranecky Milan: Investigation of human biofield with a polarizing filter in auriculomedicine

 
16.30 – 17.00 BREAK - VISIT EXHIBITION AND POSTERS

CONSENSUS PLENARY DISCUSSION 2
ROOM A: 17.00 – 18.00
Moderator: Kopsky David
Summary by the chairmen of the four parallel sessions followed by plenary discussion
Nögel Rainer, Aung Steven, Liertzer Helmut, Gleditsch Jochen
 
18.00 – 20.00 WELCOME RECEPTION IN HOTEL BEL AIR

 

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2011

 

8.00-8.45: QI-GONG WITH AUNG
                   Meeting Point: Hotel Lobby


OPPORTUNITIES OF ACUPUNCTURE
in search of public service and technical improvement
 
KEYNOTE LECTURE 3
ROOM A: 9.00 – 09.30

  • Chair: Theodoratou Konstantina, Co-chairs: Liem Hay & Koosnadi Saputra
  • Usichenko Taras: Auricular acupuncture for the treatment of pain

 
SPECIALISATIONS IN DISEASE AND ACUPUNCTURE
ROOM A: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Theodoratou Konstatina
  • Co-Chairs: Liem Hay & Koosnadi Saputra
  • Sautreuil Patrick: Paraplegia and acupunctural signal
  • Wong Chung R.E.: Treatment of movement disorders, by way of acupuncture therapy combined with electro-stimulation
  • Firatli Osman: Retinitis pigmentosa treatment
  • Feltrim Elder: Acupuncture healing in dermatology: an experimental study with rats

 
CONTEXT, PATIENT SATISFACTION & CHRONOACUPUNCTURE
ROOM 5: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Sant’Ana Antonio
  • Co-chair: Hammes Michael
  • Aung Steven: The most effective and efficient acupuncture approaches
  • Aung Steven: Clinical use of acupuncture in mental health
  • Ausfeld-Hafter Brigitte: Similarities and differences between physician acupuncturists and non-physician acupuncturists in using diagnostic methods – an explorative study.
  • Luzina-Chju Lily: Chronoacupuncture in the treatment of biliary dyskinesia.


NUTRITION
ROOM 7: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Chan Chin
  • Co-chair: Omura Yoshiaki
  • Chan Chin: Chronic Fatigue - Is acupuncture enough?
  • Pothmann Raymund: Dietary treatment in headache of schoolchildren
  • Lindwer-Kruithof A. & Sciarone-Lauw B.E.: Food as medicine
  • Omura Yoshiaki: Comparison of effects of press-needle acupuncture, moxibustion, qigong energy stored paper or solar energy stored paper on True ST-36 (Omura's ST-36) & Traditional ST-36 on the amount of normal cell telomere & the anti-cancer, anti-aging & anti-Alzheimer's effects of these treatments

 
NOVEL TECHNIQUES IN ACUPUNCTURE
ROOM 8: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Cakmak Yusuf O.
  • Co-chair: Giralt Isabel
  • Kjerkegaard Hans:   Gold-implantation
  • Schockert Thomas:   New floatable acupuncture needle for the treatment of pain and stroke patients in aqua aerobics with Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA)
  • Weber Michael: Interstitial laserneedle acupuncture – a new option for difficult pain syndromes


11.00 - 11.30 BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITION AND POSTERS

CONSENSUS PLENARY DISCUSSION 3
ROOM A: 11.30 – 12.30
Moderator: Fossion Jean Pierre
Summary by the chairmen of the four parallel sessions followed by plenary discussion
Theodoratou Konstantina, Sant’Ana Antonio, Chan Chin, Cakmak Yusuf
 
12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH – VISIT EXHIBITION AND POSTERS

12.30 – 14.00 ICMART EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                         Private Part of Restaurant Purple


THREATS FOR ACUPUNCTURE
answers to perceived threats
 
KEYNOTE LECTURE 4
ROOM A: 14.00 – 14.30

  • Chair: Pinto-Ferreira Helena
  • Co-chair: Nickels Eric & Machtelinckx Vera
  • Fossion Jean Pierre: Threats for acupuncture, answers to perceived threats

 
ADVERSE EFFECTS IN ACUPUNCTURE
ROOM A: 14.45 – 16.00

  • Chair: Pinto-Ferreira Helena
  • Co-chair: Nickels Eric & Machtelinckx Vera
  • Fossion Jean Pierre: Depressive states: is it possible to predict side-effects of anti-depressants with a clinical Chinese synopsis in somatic acupuncture? and which adverse effects might we expect in auriculotherapy for major depression?
  • Nepp Johannes: Danger by acupuncture in ophthalmologic diseases
  • Raith Wolfgang: Thermographic measurement of the skin temperature in the application of laser acupuncture in the neonate
  • Pollmann Antonius: Misunderstandings and errors of traditional acupuncture


OLD, AGED PHILOSOPHY: OBEDIENCE OR SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGE?
ROOM 5: 14.45 – 16.00

  • Chair: Frank Bryan
  • Co-chair: Luxenburger Hedi
  • Ahn Chang-beohm: Practice of Sa-Ahm (Korean) Five Element Acupuncture of classical Qi model based on old philosophy
  • Garcia i Janeras Albert: Types of acupuncture, an attend of classification
  • Maric Sonja: The Mind-Body Concept of Tibetan Medicine using the example of the theory of constitution

 
SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES INTO OTHER DISCIPLINES
ROOM 7: 14.45 – 16.00

  • Chair: Sautreuil Patrick
  • Co-chair: Kok Tjebbe
  • Biemans Johanna:   Facts for the future: PTNS (Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation) and its introduction in conventional medicine
  • Traum Danniel J.:   Laser acupuncture treatment relieving or controlling gynaecological problems
  • Sujudi Yufandi:   Effect of Laseracupuncture for autism spectrum disorder in children

 

ANATOMICAL LOCALISATION

ROOM 8: 14.45 – 16.00

  • Chair: Wander Rainer
  • Co-chair: Omura Yoshiaki
  • Bäumler Petra: Acupuncture point localization varies clearly between acupuncturists
  • Saputra Koosnadi: Acupuncture-Physiology-Anatomy correlation
  • Tan King Siong: Knowledge of anatomy is a big plus.
  • Omura Yoshiaki: Mapping of the outline of normal internal organs & cancer tissue as well as exact localization of acupuncture points, their shape, diameter, & depth using Bi-Digital O-Ring Test EMF Resonance Phenomenon between 2 identical molecules or tissues.

 
16.00 – 16.30 BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITION AND POSTERS

CONSENSUS PLENARY DISCUSSION 4
ROOM A: 16.30 – 17.15
Moderator:  Fossion Jean Pierre
Summary by the chairmen of the four parallel sessions followed by plenary discussion
Pinto-Ferreira Helena, Frank Bryan, Sautreuil Patrick, Wander Rainer
 
WORKSHOPS

FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF EEG
ROOM A: 17.30 – 18.30

  • Chair: Fossion Ruben Y.M.
  • Co-chair: Khoe Giauw Sing
  • Fossion Ruben Y.M.: Fractal analysis in studies on aging in an animal model: the nematode c.elegans, a fragile but elegant worm
  • Sant’Ana Antonio: Identification of different phases of electrical activity by fractal analysis of EEG
  • Sant’Ana Antonio: Fractal EEG comparison of gastritis treated by concha cymba and lobular points

 
NEURALTHERAPY
ROOM 5: 17.30 – 18.30

  • Chair: Schwanitz Regina
  • Co-chair: Piehler Petja
  • Ortner Wolfgang: The scientific background of neural therapy
  • Wander Rainer: Neural therapy for acupuncture non responders
  • Piehler Petja: Neural therapy in the oncology

 
PAIN MANAGEMENT
ROOM 7: 17.30 – 18.30

  • Chair: Frank Bryan
  • Co-chair:   The Gwan Tjaij Paul
  • Fazakis Georgios: Treatment pathways for acute and chronic pain cases in a private acupuncture clinic
  • Frank Bryan:   Acupuncture related techniques: beyond acupuncture for pain amelioration and tissue functional restoration
  • Sukrisno S.M.: “Bi-Syndrome” cured by Chinese Electroacupuncture

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ROOM 8: 17.30 – 18.30

  • Chair: Ahn Chang-beohm
  • Co-chair: Blomme Sjoerd
  • Weinschenk Stefan: Specific reduction of number and intensity of Neck Reflex Points as important signs of chronic disturbance fields by neural therapy
  • Ahn Chang-beohm:  A studyofthe Sa-Ahm (Korean) Five Element Acupuncture: theory and clinic
  • Goehler Annett: Stressors, Qi and sexual energy

 
19.00– 22.00 GALA – DINNER AT MADURODAM

 

SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011

 

08.00 – 08.45 QI - GONG WITH AUNG
                          Meeting Point: Hotel Lobby


FUTURE PERSPECTIVE OF ACUPUNCTURE
which paths to take
 
KEYNOTE LECTURES 5 & 6
ROOM A: 09.00 – 09.30

  • Chair: Cakmak Yusuf O.
  • Co-chairs: Fossion Jean Pierre & Moeken Frederike
  • Kopsky David: Future directions of acupuncture in research and practice
  • Cakmak Yusuf O.: Overview of future directions for basic research in acupuncture

 

DIRECTIONS OF FUTURE RESEARCH
ROOM A: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Cakmak Yusuf O.
  • Co-Chair: Fossion Jean Pierre & Moeken Frederike
  • Cakmak Yusuf O.: Electroacupuncture for Parkinson Disease: a Parkinson model of rat study
  • Cakmak Yusuf O.: Decreasing uterine artery blood flow with electroacupuncture in humans
  • Sant’Ana Antonio: Migraine treatment follow-up: possibility of predictions with fractal EEG study
  • Weinschenk Stefan W.: Influence of Neural Therapy on the autonomic nervous system, measured by Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

 
FUTURE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
ROOM 5: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Lambrechts Gilbert
  • Co-chair: Khoe Giauw Sing
  • Li Heng: Patients with clinical/radiological hyperplasia of mammary glands show pathological persistence of temperature of skin points
  • Bates Felipe B.: Acupuncture treatment for refractary post-traumatic pain in adults - 29 months follow-up and preliminary local experience in a trauma center
  • Theodoratou Konstantina: Is the treatment of general anxiety by acupuncture beneficial for other diseases as shoulder periartritis and asthma?
  • Yoshizumi Alexandre Massao: Agriculture and supply secretary acupuncture ambulatory , 2001-2008, São Paulo, Brazil: a case study

 

POLITICAL STRATEGIES
ROOM 7: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Weidenhammer Wolfgang
  • Co-Chair: Kopsky David
  • Marić-Oehler Walburg: ICMART International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques – its role in building up an Integrative Medicine
  • Winkler Madeleen: CAMDOC Alliance
  • Weidenhammer Wolfgang: Current situation of CAM in Europe and development of a roadmap for future CAM research – EU Project CAMbrella
  • Ausfeld-Hafter Brigitte: CAM in Switzerland - A story of success

 
ACUPUNCTURE EDUCATION FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
ROOM 8: 09.45 – 11.00

  • Chair: Kruithof Karen
  • Co-chair: Stoer Wolfram
  • Leysen Peter: Will acupuncture be part of evidence based recommendations by 2020?
  • Aung Steven K.H.: The Certificate Program in Medical Acupuncture (C.P.M.A.)
  • Saputra Koosnadi: Acupuncture: education and training for medical students
  • Beyens François: Different ways of teaching acupuncture in the world

 
11.00 – 11.30 BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITION AND POSTERS

CONSENSUS PLENARY DISCUSSION 5
ROOM A: 11.30 – 12.15
Moderator: Kopsky David
Summary by the Chairs of four parallel sessions followed by plenary discussion;
Cakmak Yusuf, Weidenhammer Wolfgang, Lambrechts Gilbert, Kruithof Karen
 
TAKE HOME MESSAGE 
ROOM A: 12.15 – 12.30
Kopsky David : The direction of acupuncture in the coming 10 years
 
CLOSING CEREMONY
ROOM A: 12.30 – 13.00
Master of Ceremony: Beyens François                       
 
NAAV-BVGA Awards

  • Moeken Frederike
  • Fossion Jean Pierre
  • Maric-Oehler Walburg    

 
Announcement ICMART World Congress 2012 in Athens

  • Theodoratou Konstantina

 
Concluding Remarks

  • Oei-Tan Chun Lee
  • Chan Chin

 
13.00 – 14.00  FAREWELL LUNCH

POSTERS

 

  • Pohodenko-Chudakova I.O.:  Dynamics of morphological changes of an injured inferior alveolar nerve during phonoacupuncture treatment, an experimental case
  • Pohodenko-Chudakova I.O.:  DiaDENS therapy in the complex treatment of acute purulent odontogenic periostitis
  • Pohodenko-Chudakova I.O.:  Advantages of caries prophylaxis with acupuncture by data of the salivation rates
  • Pohodenko-Chudakova I.O.:  Results of the complex treatment of odontogenic abscesses of the maxillofacial area with acupuncture
  • Pohodenko-Chudakova I.O.:  Acupuncture for prophylaxis of inflammatory complications when peripheral branches of the trigeminal nerves were injured toxically. experimental case
  • Fazakis Georgios:  Treatment pathways for acute and chronic pain cases in a private acupuncture clinic
  • Tanaka Tim H.:  Tongue examination of sublingual veins: intrasubject variability in four diagnostic parameters
  • Sponzilli Osvaldo:  Strengthening motor and psychological abilities in archers throughout the application of various techniques of Auriculotherapy: a pilot study
  • Fazakis Georgios:  Treating hay fever and other acute and chronic diseases by emission of homeopathic frequencies using the Vantage Biomeridian device
  • Pollmann Antonius:  Misunderstandings and errors of traditional acupuncture
  • Schockert Thomas:  New floatable acupuncture needle for the treatment of pain and stroke patients in aqua aerobics with Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA)
  • Chernish Greg:   Irritable bowel case
  • Liem Andrew:  Effect of Chinese ear acupuncture on non-responders to Western pain relief techniques
  • Keppel Hesselink Jan :  Discovering synergies with acupuncture and other therapies

 
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