Study Massage, Acupuncture, or Chinese Herbs in China

The Integrative Healing Society is pleased to announce its third annual Chinese medicine tour in Hangzhou, China from Oct. 7 -23, 2010. The training program will allow foreign students from all over the world a chance to study their choice of acupressure, tuina, acupuncture, or Chinese herbs.


The Integrative Healing Society (IHS) has partnered with Zhejiang Chinese Medical University to allow therapists, doctors, and students a chance to study Chinese medicine in China. The two-week program will include 30 hours of clinical observation and 20 hours of lectures. Students attending the tour can elect to study Chinese massage and acupressure, Chinese herbs, or acupuncture. During the clinical portion of the training, participants will observe senior level doctors providing treatments to patients at university hospitals. “In the acupuncture department it is not unusual for our students to see over 20 patients per hour,” said James Spears, the founder of IHS.

While the acupuncture clinic bustles with patients a slower pace can be found in the Chinese massage clinic. Here students will frequently observe up to 9 treatments over the course of 3 hours. In the massage clinic the treatments given are highly specific to the patients needs, and it is common to see advanced bodywork techniques being given for everything from shoulder tension, lumbar pain, orthopedic diseases, and even internal conditions.

In addition to the clinical portion of the training, afternoon lectures will be given on subjects such as acupressure for headaches, treating injuries of the muscles and tendons, and Chinese herbs for asthma. The lectures are a great supplement to clinical training because students get to hear from a variety of professors who are experts in their field. During the lectures students are taught specialized techniques, point and herb prescriptions, and how to treat diseases and develop treatment strategies.

Besides offering educational tours to China, IHS organizes trips to Thailand for students and professionals to study Thai massage and bodywork. Their next Thai massage tour will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in May of 2011.

The Integrative Healing Society also works with massage schools in numerous countries to develop study abroad programs to Asia.

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James Spears

M.S.

The Integrative Healing Society

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