Improve your pain diagnosis and treatment as you learn how to combine Chinese and Western medicine for effective pain management. Develop your understanding of pain management. Pain, though common, is often extremely complex to treat and diagnose. Health professionals must navigate through the many different causes and influential factors to provide effective treatment for their patients.
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On this four-week course, you’ll learn how to use an integrative clinical approach to improve pain diagnosis and treatment. You’ll discover the different pain management approaches in both Chinese and Western medicine before learning how to combine the two for effective results.
By the end, you’ll have professional pain management knowledge to take into your workplace.
Explore the pain pathway and causes of pain
Furthering your knowledge of pain and its symptoms, you’ll explore pain pathway, threshold, and types of pain.
This knowledge will help you understand pain and its burden, and how to address it timely and properly by using a comprehensive assessment.
Delve into Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine
You’ll unpack the different treatment approaches in Western medicine before exploring traditional Chinese medicine and how it treats both symptoms and root causes.
You’ll be given an overview of Chinese medicine and how its two key notions – holism and pattern identification – can be applied in pain management.
Next, you’ll investigate the existing situation between Chinese and Western medicine before analysing the upcoming collaboration between the two approaches to help enhance pain treatment.
Learn from the experts at HKU SPACE
Throughout the course, you’ll be guided by the experts at HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE) and to help you explore and understand a variety of pain management strategies.
With this knowledge, you’ll be equipped to improve your pain diagnosis and treatment in your workplace.
Syllabus
Week 1: Understanding on Pain - the Western Medicine Perspective
Week 2: Severity of Painful Symptoms & Need to Properly Address the Issue
Week 3: Application of Chinese Medicine in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain
Week 4: Pain Management: Role of Combined Chinese/Western Medicine Approaches
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explain what pain is from the perspective of Chinese and Western medicines
- Explain the basic knowledge of the pain diagnosis and treatment
- Evaluate the significance of integrative pain management with Chinese and Western medicines
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for Western medical professionals such as pain medicine specialists, general practitioners, physiotherapists, psychologists, and nurses.
It may also be useful for Chinese medicine practitioners who are interested in integrative pain management.
