ONLINE CPD: Acupuncture & Dry Needling General Update

Skill level: IntermediateCPD hours: 10 hours

Course details

  • The UK's leading acupuncture & dry needling education provider
  • Globally trusted acupuncture and dry needling team of tutors
  • Consistently rated 5-stars by healthcare professionals
  • Over 10 years teaching experience worldwide
  • Clinical reasoning at the heart of delivery

This online acupuncture and dry needling general update allows course delegates to revisit their needling skills and underpinning theory, whilst being introduced to the latest findings from published literature – thus helping to consolidate existing knowledge and to introduce a more focused approach to needling techniques and clinical reasoning.

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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 enquiries@breeze.academy.

This online acupuncture and dry needling refresher 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, you’ll then progress through a series of modules aimed at strengthening your knowledge of prominent meridians, needling techniques and acupoint recipes with respect to the neck, shoulder, elbow, knee and ankle. 

With theoretical knowledge and application reviewed from both a Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, case studies and multi-choice quizzes are used throughout in order to bolster your clinical reasoning capabilities and ensure that you complete the course feeling confident, safe and effective in implementing your new found knowledge and skills.

Delivered by Dr. Carl Clarkson, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, who has taught acupuncture globally for over 10 years, this course ensures you have everything you need to advance your needling techniques and clinical reasoning in order to provide your patients with an increased service offering.

This course would be of huge benefit to healthcare professionals who have already taken a foundation course in acupuncture but would like to revisit their needling skills and the underpinning theory, whilst being introduced to the latest findings from published literature.

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.

Our First-Class Online Training Portal

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.*

Our Fully Evidence-Based Approach

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. 

Our Exceptional Five-Star Course Reviews

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 enquiries@breeze.academy (we respond to all queries, usually within the hour).

Meet your tutor

Dr. Carl Clarkson

Dr. Carl Clarkson

Qualifications
  • PhD, Acupuncture and Women’s Health, Northumbria University
  • MSc, Acupuncture, Coventry University
  • PGCE, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching, Teeside University
  • BSc, Physiotherapy, Northumbria University
Achievements
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, HEA
Over a decade ago, I had an ambitious vision – create exceptional learning experiences for healthcare professionals. My career began in 2004 as a Physiotherapist, where a passion for helping people was...
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Agenda

Course IntroductionOnline

To get things underway, we'll run through an overview of acupuncture, a short history of its origins, and provide some advice on how to get the most possible from the course. We'll also point you in the right direction for the course handouts that you'll need to download.

Establishing Needling SafetyOnline

Next up, the first half of this module talks you through acupuncture contraindications and precautions, followed by a multi-choice quiz to consolidate your learning, whilst the second half 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!

Let's Get Some Fundamentals Covered!Online

In this module, there are several short videos outlining some of the fundamentals of acupuncture:

  • Needling basics: Needle insertion, depth of insertion, when to use different sized needles.
  • Clinical reasoning: Learn the foundations of TCM and Western reasoning.
  • Establishing the role of acupuncture: Learn about appropriate circumstances in which to use acupuncture.
  • Pain physiology: An easy to follow demonstration of pain physiology, and how acupuncture can influence immediate pain relief.

Neck ModuleOnline

This module is comprised of a number of short videos to further your understanding of acupuncture for the neck:

  • Prominent meridians that cover the neck
  • Needling techniques for prominent acupoints
  • Treatment recipes for central + lateral neck pain
  • Neck pain case study
  • Neck pain multi-choice quiz to cement your understanding

Shoulder ModuleOnline

This module is comprised of a number of short videos to further your understanding of acupuncture for the shoulder:

  • Prominent meridians that cover the shoulder
  • Needling techniques for prominent acupoints
  • Acupoint recipes for Anterior, Posterior and generic shoulder problems
  • Shoulder symptoms case study
  • Shoulder symptoms multi-choice quiz to cement your understanding

Elbow ModuleOnline

This module is comprised of a number of short videos to further your understanding of acupuncture for the elbow:

  • Prominent meridians that cover the elbow
  • Needling techniques for prominent acupoints
  • Acupoint recipes for lateral and medial elbow problems
  • Elbow symptoms case study
  • Elbow symptoms multi-choice quiz to cement your understanding

Knee & Ankle ModuleOnline

This module is comprised of a number of short videos to further your understanding of acupuncture for the knee and ankle:

  • Prominent meridians that cover the knee and ankle
  • Needling techniques for prominent acupoints
  • Acupoint recipes for medial and central knee pain, lateral ankle issues, and achilles tendinopathy