Contemporary Acupuncture Continued from Page 30 THE BENEFITS OF CONTEMPORARY ACUPUNCTURE IN CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE We could now tell you about our signifi- cant income increase since offering contemporary acupuncture to our patients but we know you will be much more excited to find out about the many patients we have been able to help and about our greatly expanded ability to handle musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction as well as neurological problems. We could also tell you about the competitive edge that contemporary acupuncture has given us over many of our colleagues and other practitioners but we know that you will care a lot more about the significantly better clinical outcomes we regularly achieve when treating our patients. We could finally tell you that our practices are now recession and competition proof but instead we prefer CME CERTIFICATION AND PROGRAM CREDENTIALS We are pleased, as committed chiroprac- tors, all running very successful and busy practices, to have the opportunity to give back to our profession by being involved in acupuncture-related teaching and research. to disclose to you our renewed passion and enthusiasm to both the chiropractic profession and our patients, as now we feel better equipped than ever to carry on our missions of helping others with a more specific functional approach and improved clinical efficiency. From the beginning, we found the contemporary approach to be very easy to integrate into our practice. As well, the language and clinical concepts associated with it belong to the most updated body of knowledge in the areas of neurophysi- ology of pain and neuroanatomy. This greatly increases the acceptance of the intervention among patients and the ability to explain it to other health-care professionals. On the formal academic level, the McMaster Contemporary Acupuncture Program for health-care professionals, provides a certificate for 300 CME hours, significantly above the 200 recommended by the WHO. As a result, the program has been recognized by the American Board of Medical Acupuncture and the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture among others. As well, it maintains institutional relation- ships with other university-based programs abroad, and professional medical acupuncture associations in several countries. For more information, please go to www.acupuncturecourses.com or write to us at [email protected].• www.canadianchiropractor.ca CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | DECEMBER 2007 • 41
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