Integrative Pain Management - Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
Improve your pain diagnosis and treatment as you learn how to combine Chinese and Western medicine for effective pain management with this online course from HKU Space.
Duration
4 weeks
Weekly study
3 hours
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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.
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.
Week 1
Understanding on Pain - the Western Medicine Perspective
Course Introduction
In this activity, you are going to watch the introductory video, that introduces the course and meet our lead educator, Dr Jenny Tung.
Introduction to physiology and pathology of pain
This activity presents the key elements of physiology and pathology of pain.
Diagnosis and evaluation of pain
This activity introduces different types of pain and how pain is assessed.
Overview of pain management
The activity introduces a number of pain management strategies such as pharmacological agents, adjuvant analgesics and multi-disciplinary pain management programme.
Summary of the week
This activity gives you a brief summary of what you have learnt this week.
Week 2
Severity of Painful Symptoms & Need to Properly Address the Issue
Introduction
This activity introduces the pain pathway, threshold and types of pain.
Severity of pain
This activity explains pain and its burden.
Addressing pain timely and properly: comprehensive assessment
This activity presents how pain could be addressed timely and properly by using comprehensive assessment.
Addressing pain timely and properly: individualised treatment approach
This activity presents how pain could be addressed timely and properly by using the individualised treatment approach.
Summary of the week
This activity gives you a brief summary of what you have learnt this week.
Week 3
Application of Chinese Medicine in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain
Introduction to Chinese medicine
This activity gives you an overview of Chinese medicine.
Holism of pain management & pattern identification
This activity explains how the two key notions in Chinese medicine -holism and pattern identification can be applied in pain management.
Chinese medicine treatment for pain
This activity presents various Chinese medicine treatments and its principles in pain management.
Summary of the week
This activity gives you a brief summary of what you have learnt this week.
Week 4
Pain Management: Role of Combined Chinese/Western Medicine Approaches
An overview on pain management
This activity introduces the role of combined Chinese/Western medicine approaches.
Western medicine in pain management
This activity defines the notion of pain from a Western medicine perspective and introduces different treatment approaches in Western medicine.
Chinese medicine in pain management
This activity presents the roles of Chinese medicine in pain management, the safety of the complementary approach and effectiveness of acupuncture.
Integrated Chinese medicine pain clinic (IPC)
This activity gives you some brief information of the IPC and its operation.
Summary of the week
This activity gives you a brief summary of what you have learnt this week.
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