Midwifery Acupuncture & Dry Needling Foundation Course

The aim of our foundation level acupuncture course for midwives is to become safe, confident and effective in the application of acupuncture & dry needling as part of your day-to-day practice.

The objectives of our acupuncture foundation course are:

• To implement safe & effective acupuncture and dry needling techniques, throughout the body
• To create targeted acupuncture and needling protocols for the benefit of pain & wellbeing
• To appraise & synthesise the evidence base alongside clinical experience
• To adopt a pragmatic approach to clinical reasoning for needling interventions that complement your existing skills
• To integrate acupuncture into midwifery practice to include lower back pain, PPGP, nausea, carpal tunnel, hot flushes, headaches and wellbeing

In our foundation level acupuncture course for midwives, you will receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of acupuncture. This comes with comprehensive study materials provided within the online and face-to-face components of the course.

The evidence-based information you will learn from our foundation course will allow you to make fully informed decisions on how and when to introduce acupuncture to a patient. You’ll discover a large body of prominent, pertinent and up-to-date evidence supporting the use of acupuncture for midwifery, whilst developing your needling skills to provide dramatic results for your patients, offering them a comprehensive package of pain relief and wellbeing.

More specifically, after completing our acupuncture course for midwives you will be able to demonstrate the following needling skills and theoretical knowledge:

• Effective needling techniques upon the four limbs, trunk and spine
• Suitable identification of prominent and commonly used acupoints
• An understanding of contraindications, precautions and potential side effects of acupuncture and dry needling
• Safe application of needling at all times
• Effective management of needling side effects

Upon successful completion of our acupuncture course for midwives, you will be able to use acupuncture and dry needling on your patients as part of your everyday practice safely, confidently and effectively.

With theoretical knowledge and application reviewed from both a Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, this acupuncture foundation course for midwives takes you through a large number of applications and techniques, allowing you to confidently apply acupuncture for:

• Acute or persistent pain, anywhere in the body
• Stress and anxiety
• Nausea
• Hot flushes/flashes
• Carpal Tunnel
• Headaches
• General wellbeing

Our acupuncture course for midwives is specifically designed for midwives looking to offer more to their patients, whilst advancing their own career and professional development.

Our courses at Breeze Academy are enjoyable, intellectually stimulating, and consistently rated 5 stars – read our reviews to see what our students have to say.

We have both the student and the learning experience at the heart of every single one of our courses, ensuring that you will leave the course feeling confident about your new found needling skills, and that you will have had a great time!

Upon course completion, you will be able to use acupuncture as part of your day to day practice. Additional accreditation with another educational body is not required.

With global reputation and experience curated and delivered by our team of expert tutors, this foundation acupuncture course has a worldwide reputation, and has cemented Breeze Academy as one of the leading providers of acupuncture and dry needling training.

Our unique blend of online and face-to-face carefully curated content, both before and after the in-person learning component, allows you to access high quality education whenever and wherever you want. This helps to reduce accommodation costs for those of you needing to travel to the face-to-face component, whilst also providing you the option to revisit learning in a much more meaningful and engaging format.

Our fully evidence-based approach and expert research knowledge is combined with practical, clinically relevant teaching to ensure you receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of acupuncture. This course has clinical reasoning at the heart of delivery, making sure that you’re able to make fully informed decisions on how and when to introduce acupuncture into a patient’s care package.

Your online learning access will expire 1 month following the face to face component of the course.

You must be a registered midwife in order to attend our foundation level acupuncture course for midwives.

If you have to cancel your course booking because of a covid-related issue, we will assign you to the next available course that suits you.

We’re happy to provide you with 10 days access to a free taster course. This taster course includes a small number of lessons from the full course, helping you to get a flavour for how we do things.

Check out the free taster course.