Delivered by Dr. Carl Clarkson, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, who has taught acupuncture globally for over 10 years, this specialist online CPD course builds upon your foundation course to advance your needling techniques and clinical reasoning even further, specifically for the treatment of headaches, neck and facial pain.
You will need to be a regulated healthcare professional who has completed foundation training in acupuncture and dry needling*. Yet to complete your foundation training? We have upcoming courses in every major city in the UK. Find your nearest foundation course here.
*Please note applicants who have completed a non-Breeze Academy course, should check their eligibility with us at [email protected].
Spanning over forty lessons across seven chapters, a wealth of clinical and research experience is deftly combined with practical demonstrations, case studies, multi-choice quizzes and handouts to ensure you have everything you could possibly need for the treatment of headaches, neck and facial pain.
This specialist CPD course begins by re-visiting learning undertaken in your foundation course – notably, contraindications and precautions, adverse events, needling basics, clinical reasoning, pain physiology, as well as the role of acupuncture and when to use it.
Having re-established these fundamentals, the course progresses into the use of acupuncture for facial symptoms, where you will discover the prominent meridians that cover the face, needling techniques for the prominent acupoints, and how acupuncture can be used in the treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia, Facial Palsy and Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD).
Following this, the course progresses onto neck symptoms, covering the prominent meridians of the neck, needling techniques for the prominent acupoints, and how acupuncture can be used in the treatment of central and lateral neck pain.
Finally, the course ends with a module dedicated to the treatment of headaches, covering the prominent meridians of the head, needling techniques for the prominent acupoints, and how acupuncture can be used in the treatment of lateral and frontal headaches.
You will receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of acupuncture and dry needling for facial symptoms, neck symptoms, and headaches, allowing you to provide dramatic results for your clients as soon as you complete the course.
This course would be of huge benefit to healthcare professionals who have already taken a foundation course in acupuncture but are now looking to complete additional CPD hours whilst advancing their needling skills and understanding even further.
With experience delivering this course both in the UK and worldwide across the last 10 years, we’ve had the pleasure of helping a wide range of professionals consolidate their existing knowledge and move towards a more focused approach to needling techniques and clinical reasoning.
We deliver medical acupuncture and dry needling courses across the globe, and have courses running in every major city in the UK. We are triple-locked quality assured, meaning you can be confident that we offer the very best in education.
We provide the very best in online acupuncture and dry needling training to guarantee that course delegates feel safe, confident and effective in applying their learnings as soon as they complete their course. We know exactly what healthcare professionals need, and want, in order to maximise their learning experience.*
We combine the latest research with practical, clinically relevant teaching to ensure you receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of acupuncture and dry needling. All of our courses have 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 and dry needling into a client’s care package.
We’re passionate about acupuncture and dry needling, and passionate about delivering exceptional educational experiences. Reflecting this, our online acupuncture and dry needling CPD courses are consistently rated five-stars and have fantastic reviews.
*Access to online content available until 1 month after the face-to-face element of the course.
At the end of each chapter, you will be able to test your knowledge in our multi-choice quizzes in a fun and engaging manner. We include case studies that require you to draw upon your learning, challenging you to engage with clinical reasoning that would be reflected in your own clinical practice.
We’re with you every step of the way. As soon as you book, you’ll gain access to our online portal, meaning you can start learning immediately. In addition, our team of tutors and learner support team are easily accessible, and happy to help in any way we can.
If you've checked over the course information but still have some questions, please get in touch via our contact form or on [email protected] (we respond to all queries, usually within the hour).
The first half of this module talks you through acupuncture contraindications and precautions, followed by a multi-choice quiz to consolidate your learning. The second half of the module then takes you through adverse events, and how to best deal with them, followed by a multi-choice quiz to ensure you know what to do!
In this module, there are several short videos outlining some of the fundamentals of acupuncture:
This module is comprised of a number of short videos to further your understanding of acupuncture for facial symptoms:
This module is comprised of a number of short videos to further your understanding of acupuncture for neck symptoms:
This module is comprised of a number of short videos to further your understanding of acupuncture for headaches:
