| Date: Dec 10, 2005 Time: |
| Cost: $80 (thru Dec. 3) $100 (after Dec.3) Guidelines: $25 |
| Location: 721 N.Eculid Street, Anaheim, California |
| CE Hours: 8 Hours approved by the California Acupuncture Board |
| With the adoption of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's (ACOEM) Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines Second Edition, 2005, has required California Acupuncturists to continue to develop and provide evidence based treatment guidelines in order to supplement and provide medical care to injured workers. The ACOEM Guidelines are not sufficient in their recommendations in order to obtain treatment authorization and are not evidence based concerning the utilization of Acupuncture and Chinese/Asian medicine in the Work Comp System. |
| Many dedicated professionals determined that it was crucial that this profession have credible Acupuncture Treatment Guidelines. Many Industry professionals got together and created the basis of the Acupuncture and Exectro-acupuncture Evidence-Based Treatment Guidelines. CAOMA took the lead in working with the offices of the Governor, Legislative leaders and officials from the Division of Workers’ Compensation. Since October of 2004, CAOMA representatives Michelle Lau, Brian Fennen and Ted Priebe have been invited to participate on the DWC Advisory and Expert Panels regarding the Guidelines. |
| CAOMA has been vigilant in working with the Rand Corporation, and The Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) in implementing and adopting the current Acupuncture and Electroacupuncture: Evidence-Based Treatment Guidelines 2004 ©CAOMA, FAR 2004, as a supplement. All other medical specialties have the same obstacles to provide standardized, nationally recognized evidence based Guidelines in order to provide needed treatment to injured workers. |
| The December 10, 2005 Seminar in Los Angeles will provide the practitioner with the tools needed and will cover the following topics: |
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Role and Responsibility by regulation and control of Acupuncturist’s as a primary health care profession. |
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Acupuncturist’s scope of practice |
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The California Labor Code |
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Objective of These Guidelines |
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Evidence Based Medicine |
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Clinical Applications of These Guidelines |
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Medical Necessity |
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Maximum Therapeutic Benefit |
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Measurable Treatment Outcome Assessment |
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Utilization and Peer Review |
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Treatment Guidelines |
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Severity and Duration of Conditions |
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Cautions and Contraindications, Informed Consent |
| Seminar Instructors: |
| Donald E. Kendall, O.M.D., Ph.D., L.Ac. Devised the first physiological model that completely explains all the mechanisms of acupuncture that establishes a firm scientific basis for its action. The scientific model of acupuncture is completely consistent with the original Chinese version of Chinese medical theory and Dr. Kendall is recognized as a world authority in Chinese Medicine. Dr Kendall holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Psychophysiology and is |
| the author of the Dao of Chinese Medicine: Understanding an Ancient Healing Art. Hong Kong, London; Oxford University Press, April 2002, ISBN 0-19-592104-6. |
| Ted Priebe, LAc, OMD, Member, Guidelines Evaluation Committee, California Division of Worker’s Compensation. Licensed in 1983, Dr. Priebe specialized in the study and treatment of pain, and focused on treating neuro-musculoskeletal dysfunction and disease and was the first appointed Qualified Medical |
| Evaluator (QME) in the Profession. In 1989 he founded and served as Chairperson for the NBAO (National Board of Acupuncture Orthopedics) and created the first specialty board with educational standards for L.Ac’s and is a founding member and CEO of the National Oriental Medicine Accreditation Agency (NOMAA). |