2021 Archives - Pacific Symposium Pacific College of Health and Science Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:46:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-PCHS_Icon_Gradient-2-32x32.png 2021 Archives - Pacific Symposium 32 32 Nerve Entrapment Syndromes and The Binding Regions of TCM – Applications https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-post-conference/matt-callison-tba/ Thu, 13 May 2021 15:24:34 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4189 This 1-day workshop will continue with information presented in the earlier introductory lecture. Because subtle levels of nerve compression can affect the axoplasmic flow and nerve conduction, nerve entrapment sites could be considered as “binding regions” and act as a silent contributor to injury. For the TCM practitioner, when treating a musculoskeletal injury, understanding where the proximal nerve compression sites are located is important for positive clinical outcomes.

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]]> This 1-day workshop will continue with information presented in the earlier introductory lecture. Because subtle levels of nerve compression can affect the axoplasmic flow and nerve conduction, nerve entrapment sites could be considered as “binding regions” and act as a silent contributor to injury. For the TCM practitioner, when treating a musculoskeletal injury, understanding where the proximal nerve compression sites are located is important for positive clinical outcomes.

We will go over many different nerve entrapment sites that can affect pain patterns in the head, neck and upper extremity. We will cover the lower cervical spinal nerve compression, headache pain generators from greater occipital and 3rd occipital nerve compression, thoracic outlet syndrome, and the various nerve entrapment sites affecting the musculocutaneous, ulnar, median and radial nerves of the upper extremity will be discussed, assessed and treated.

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]]> Cannabis Care as Art and Science: Why We Need Holistic Approaches https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-4-schedule/carey-clark-tba/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:00:30 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4194 This class will provide the learners with the opportunity to explore why holistic approaches and integrative modalities should be used when providing cannabis care. We will delve into the following questions: How is working with patients who self-titrate cannabis differ from traditional allopathic, prescriptive approaches? Why is coaching an essential skill that all cannabis-care practitioners must build? How do we support patients with realizing their best quality of life?

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]]> This class will provide the learners with the opportunity to explore why holistic approaches and integrative modalities should be used when providing cannabis care. We will delve into the following questions: How is working with patients who self-titrate cannabis differ from traditional allopathic, prescriptive approaches? Why is coaching an essential skill that all cannabis-care practitioners must build? How do we support patients with realizing their best quality of life?

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]]> Trauma is Vibrational Illness; Acupuncture is Vibrational Medicine https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-3-schedule/alaine-duncan-tba/ Thu, 13 May 2021 15:01:27 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4161 Using ancient principles of Chinese Medicine, Acupuncturists are trained to facilitate whole-body coherence between yin and yang; balance and regulation in the Kidney/Heart axis and a smooth flow through the cycle of seasons and Elements. Integrating neurobiology’s 5 Steps of the Self-Protective Response (hint: they mirror the 5 Elements!) and the framework of Polyvagal Theory in the context of the Shen Cycle will illuminate diagnostic information and treatment room skills that will revolutionize your practice, your service to your patients, and your contribution to the healing of our world.

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]]> Our practices are filled with people with “strange, rare, and peculiar” symptoms that baffle western providers. Auto-immune illness, chronic pain, metabolic, sleep, and endocrine disturbance, depression and anxiety all have a tendril of connection to autonomic nervous system dysregulation from traumatic stress, known or unknown. Using ancient principles of Chinese Medicine, Acupuncturists are trained to facilitate whole-body coherence between yin and yang; balance and regulation in the Kidney/Heart axis and a smooth flow through the cycle of seasons and Elements. Integrating neurobiology’s 5 Steps of the Self-Protective Response (hint: they mirror the 5 Elements!) and the framework of Polyvagal Theory in the context of the Shen Cycle will illuminate diagnostic information and treatment room skills that will revolutionize your practice, your service to your patients, and your contribution to the healing of our world.

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]]> Traditional Medicine in the Era of Telehealth: Communication and Herbal Recordkeeping https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-2-schedule/galina-roofener-tba/ Thu, 13 May 2021 04:39:46 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4018 There is no doubt that rapidly evolving telehealth brought on by Covid-19 is here to stay. Morning hour will be devoted to the HIPAA compliance for patient-practitioner communication and FDA requirements for TCM herbal record keeping.

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]]> There is no doubt that rapidly evolving telehealth brought on by Covid-19 is here to stay. Morning hour will be devoted to the HIPAA compliance for patient-practitioner communication and FDA requirements for TCM herbal record keeping.

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]]> 6 Dantian Typologies & Personalities https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-1-schedule/tba-tba/ Wed, 12 May 2021 14:52:53 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=3998 There are three centers that hold vast amounts of Qi energy deep inside your body. These three Energy Centers are called Dantians and regulate your capacity for wisdom, love, and vitality. The relative strength of these qualities determines your energy type.

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]]> There are three centers that hold vast amounts of Qi energy deep inside your body. These three Energy Centers are called Dantians and regulate your capacity for wisdom, love, and vitality. The relative strength of these qualities determines your energy type.

If you can tap wisdom more easily than love, for example, you may be brilliant but emotionally blocked and unable to open your heart and connect with others deeply. Or if you express love more easily than wisdom you may have a noble heart full of good intentions but timing your actions wisely becomes an issue.

In most of us, one of these centers tends to be stronger than the other two and one center tends to be weaker than the other two. This energetic imbalance manifest as an imbalance in daily life since Qi and life reflect each other.

In this lecture, Robert Peng will explore the nature of Qi energy and the theory behind these Energy Centers. He will analyze 6 types of energy imbalance and its relevant personalities. And he will introduce a simple but practical Qigong to balance these three Dantians and deepen the connection between your internal energies and the energies of Heaven and Earth.

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]]> Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Pacific College FACE Program https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-4-schedule/exclusive-exhibitor-presentation/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:00:31 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4517 The post Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Pacific College FACE Program appeared first on Pacific Symposium.

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]]> Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Acufast Earth Friendly Needle https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-3-schedule/exclusive-exhibitor-presentation/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:44:12 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4509 The post Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Acufast Earth Friendly Needle appeared first on Pacific Symposium.

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]]> Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Lhasa OMS https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-2-schedule/exclusive-exhibitor-presentation/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:38:37 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4501 The post Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Lhasa OMS appeared first on Pacific Symposium.

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]]> Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Acurea Medical and Asiamed https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-1-schedule/exclusive-exhibitor-presentation/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:15:41 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4490 The post Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Acurea Medical and Asiamed appeared first on Pacific Symposium.

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]]> The Oneness System: The Vital Role of Ministerial Fire in Chinese Medicine Immunology https://symposium.pacificcollege.edu/session/2021-day-4-schedule/heiner-fruehauf-tba/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:00:31 +0000 https://www.pacificcollege.edu/symposium/?post_type=session&p=4196 This presentation provides a comprehensive exploration of the concept of Ministerial Fire and its acute relevance for the approach to recalcitrant diseases including COVID-19.

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]]> During the last century, Chinese medical thinking has become strongly influenced by the parameters of Western medicine. One aspect of this influence is a disproportionate focus on the organ networks of the post-natal realm that govern the material processes of the body, especially the Spleen and Stomach. However, when dealing with more serious and complex disorders it is often the more “mysterious” aspects of Chinese medicine—e.g., the vacuous Triple Warmer system and the associated concept of Ministerial Fire—that are most relevant in the process of diagnosis and treatment. This presentation provides a comprehensive exploration of the concept of Ministerial Fire and its acute relevance for the approach to recalcitrant diseases including COVID-19.

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