Integrative Approach to Pain Management

Dao Dan Pai Qigong exercises are a series of standing exercises that harmonize and balance the major energy channels of the body. This series of exercises was first taught in the West by Taoist Master Share K. Lew, a Taoist monk from the Yellow Dragon Temple in the Lo Fo Shan mountains of Guangzhou, China. It integrates movement with breath and posture to activate and balance qi flow.

Unfold, from a Chinese medical perspective, cancer, cancer treatments, and the role of jing. Cancer is a disease defined in Western biomedical terms, yet practitioners of Chinese medicine must gain a better understanding of this condition and how to best serve their oncology patients, including how the impact of jing can be seen on a cellular level. Insight into cancer and cancer development can be understood by a careful observation of jing, the meeting of jing and shen to create life, and constant changes in the jing as part of growth and development. This lecture will focus on diagnosis and the clinical application of acupuncture to support jing. It will include new insights into the role of marrow, extra meridians, toxins in cancer, and modern treatments such as chemotherapy, as well as discussion of case studies and research.

Yangxiao (Nurturing the Small): Getting Started with Traditional Chinese Pediatrics In this lecture, Dr. Sabine Wilms will explore the concept of preventative medicine or “yangsheng” from the classical Chinese perspective as it relates to pediatrics. On the basis of Sun Simiao’s foundational writings on pediatrics, we shall consider the following questions: How can we use the framework of “yangsheng” (nurturing life) to inform the clinical treatment of children (and their parents) as we support early childhood development; educate pediatric patients and their parents with lifestyle, dietary, and other advice; and inspire our community of family, friends, patients, and colleagues? Ultimately, Dr. Wilms will consider how Chinese medicine, and the treatment of children and families in particular, can contribute to a global paradigm shift wherein the doctor, as a practitioner of “cosmic medicine,” through their work, embodies the traditional Chinese ideal of harmonizing Heaven and Earth by treating not separate individual bodies, but families, communities, and the macrocosm at large, thereby changing the way we exist and act in the world.

David M. Hashemipour, MD, LAc, who developed the Advanced Integrative Diagnostic classes for Pacific College’s doctoral program, explores how pain is understood in both biomedicine and East Asian medicine, comparing mechanisms like qi and blood stagnation with nociceptive and neuropathic pain. This class will examine psychometric pain patterns, cold damp bi syndromes, and the role of shen disturbance in chronic pain. Practical strategies combining acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutrition, and mindfulness will be discussed, with clinical examples to illustrate integrative treatment in action.

Dao Dan Pai Qigong exercises are a series of standing exercises that harmonize and balance the major energy channels of the body. This series of exercises was first taught in the West by Taoist Master Share K. Lew, a Taoist monk from the Yellow Dragon Temple in the Lo Fo Shan mountains of Guangzhou, China. It integrates movement with breath and posture to activate and balance qi flow.

Delve into the potent intersection of health, virtue, and healing power that lies at the root of the healer’s efficacy in the spirit of traditional Chinese medicine. Dr. Sabine Wilms, well-known expert on Sun Simiao and author of Healing Virtue-Power: Medical Ethics and the Doctor’s Dao, will discuss Sun Simiao’s writings on this topic, including what is commonly known as the physician’s oath in Chinese medicine. You will not just receive an authentic, academically solid transmission of the traditional Chinese understanding of medical ethics; we aim to open our hearts and let our spirits soar! Together, we shall explore the application of this material in the modern clinical context and in your personal practices, leaving all of us inspired, recharged, and with new-found clarity on why we do what we do on the basis of our deepest aspirations.

In this hands-on workshop, Olympics integrative medicine doctor David M. Hashemipour brings his integrative diagnosis and treatment approach to neck pain and frozen shoulder with tui na protocols developed over years of practice. These techniques combine multiple tui na manipulations in a structured, effective sequence. Participants will gain practical skills in applying these protocols to address common musculoskeletal conditions with confidence and precision.

Chinese medical lymphatic drainage techniques focusing on appearance enhancement of the face and body can improve circulation and reshape the body post-partum and otherwise. Discover the relationship between Chinese medicine and lymphatic drainage. Demonstration of tools and techniques like gua sha, cupping, and more will be explored.

Gain insights into the diagnosis and treatment of one of the most widespread forms of human suffering: depression. We will be using psychiatric differential diagnosis of depression from the DSM V & NIH knowledge base, joined with the deep Chinese scientific medical model of body, mind, and shen. When observing depression and its symptoms, it is strikingly apparent that both the root of the suffering and the source for healing can be examined from five types referring to Wu Zhi (five wills), Wu Shen (five spirits) and the five elements. On each meridian are special points that either have shen or tian (heaven) in their name, or have a special influence on the mind and shen. This lecture is a presentation of clinical cases and discussion of special ancient observational techniques for evaluating the shen and understanding the innermost core concerns necessary to uncover the true imbalances that are the cause of the symptoms and signs. Chinese medicine uses the patient's own healing abilities to cure themselves; therefore, the more precise the diagnosis, the more accurate the choice of points that can create this type of transformation--and the better we can enhance patients’ strengths and potential to harness their self-healing capacity and achieve a positive outcome.