BMAS Spring Meeting
Saturday-Sunday, 27-28 April 2013
Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham
BMAS Autumn Meeting
Friday-Sunday, 27-29 September 2013
Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal
Come to Porto this Autumn and network with colleagues, update yourself
on the latest acupuncture research, earn CPD hours. Take a boat trip, taste
the local port, soak up some Autumn sunshine.
BMAS and the Portuguese Medical Acupuncture Society invite you to join us for a long weekend of lectures, discussion and demonstrations, with distinguished speakers
covering research, developments and techniques in medical acupuncture:
Friday 27 September
Musculoskeletal and sports medicine workshops on a full-day boat trip up the Douro.
Saturday 28 September
Armando Almeida:
Pain Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain: role of descending facilitation
Thomas Lundeberg:
The implications of descending pain facilitation and the role of acupuncture
Armando Almeida:
Differential effects of left/right neuropathy on human and rat anxiety and cognitive behaviour
Thomas Lundeberg:
The implications for acupuncture practice and the approach to the patient
Friday's Douro Cruise Workshop - What washed up from the boat trip?
Gustavo Quaresma:
TCM and western acupuncture in the context of fibromyalgia
Helena Ferreira Pinto:
Medical acupuncture - the European perspective
Sunday 29 September (0915-1400 hrs)
Jacqueline Filshie:
Acupuncture in Palliative Care - A Concise Course
And join us for the Saturday evening tour of Taylors port wine cellars, Vila Nova de Gaia, followed by dinner.
Meeting Venue: Hotel Ipanema Park
Rua de Serralves 124, 4150-702 Porto, Portugal
Accommodation: Book direct with the Hotel via www.hfhotels.com/porto/bmas
Rates from €58 per night for bed & breakfast
For meeting details: Email: admin@medical-acupuncture.org.uk
or Telephone: +44 (0)1606 786782
Click here to now for more information and to book your place
Travel:
Fly to Porto direct from:
London Gatwick on easyJet or TAP
London Stansted on Ryanair
Liverpool on Ryanair
Or fly to Lisbon then travel to Porto:
by air on TAP
by train - tube from Airport to Oriente (3 stops) and then Alfa, the high speed train,
to Porto (2 hours journey time)
Flights via Madrid available on Iberia
Book a taxi transfer in advance from Porto airport to Ipanema Park Hotel for €6 per person