The British Medical Acupuncture Society

Biographies of speakers for the Scientific Meeting Series 2023 and abstracts of their talks.

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BACK PAIN DAY

PART 1

Acupuncture for Back Pain - Introduction and Evidence

A presentation from the BMAS Spring Meeting in May 2017. It describes the story from the speaker's perspective of the events leading up to the recommendation in favour of acupuncture treatment for back pain in the NICE Clinical Guideline CG88, and the subsequent events that led to this recommendation being reversed in 2016 in NG59 (the update of CG88).

Acupuncture for Back Pain - Anatomy

Videos demonstrate needling of the lumbar spine region

Acupuncture for Back Pain - Clinical Assessment

Videos demonstrate assessment of lumbar back pain

PART 2

Acupuncture for Back Pain - Clinical Cases I

Acupuncture for Back Pain - Clinical Cases II

Videos demonstrate protocols for treatment of sciatica

BMAS Scientific Meeting Series 2022

Saturday 9 April 12 pm
Dr Leonardo BOTELHO, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Neuromodulation via nerve stimulation

Saturday 14 May 1pm
Andrew VICKERS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
The story of the acupuncture trialists collaboration IPDM

Saturday 11 June
Dr David COGGIN-CARR, University of Vermont, USA and University College London, UK and Editor-in-Chief, Acupuncture in Medicine
Electro acupuncture for fetal growth restriction

Saturday 10 September
Madison ZHANG, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Science, Beijing, China
Acupuncture: How to improve the evidence base - The BMJ online series of papers

Saturday 8 October
Joanna DIETZEL, Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology & Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Therapeutic strategies of complementary medicines in COVID and Long COVID

Saturday 12 November
Jane J ABANES Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, USA
Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Post-Deployment Military Service Members

Biographies of speakers at the BMAS Scientific Meeting Series 2022, and abstracts of their presentations.