PAANZ Courses 2023

Venue: 56 Mahoe Street, Hamilton

Tutors: Derek Timmins & Guy Bailey

Date: Saturday 17th June – Sunday 18th June

Time: Saturday 9.00am – 4.30pm & Sunday 9.00am – 4.30pm

This course aims to bring order and clarification to the concepts of and practical applications of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture.

Our goal for this course is for the attendees to have an enhanced understanding of TCM concepts, diagnosis, treatment prescription and dosage selection.

On day one we explore the TCM concepts of how injury can affect the body and how to prescribe appropriate acupuncture treatment for this. We will also look into how these external injuries can, if left untreated, go on to create lasting imbalances in the body.

On day two we’ll take a deeper dive and look further into the functions of the acupuncture points from a traditional perspective, and how this can utilise to create a targeted approach with Zone Therapy, then integrated with Western Medical Acupuncture.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

PAANZ member rate $600.00 please click here for discount code
PNZ member rate $700.00
Non PNZ member rate $850.00

*Please Note: All attendees must be registered in New Zealand and have a current APC.

This foundation course taught by Trevor Montgomery, in association with PAANZ, is suitable for all physiotherapists wishing to expand their clinical reasoning and treatment skill sets with the use of dry needling. The course has a large practical component with particular emphasis on safe needling practice as set out in the latest PAANZ safety guidelines.

The course is an introduction to Dry Needling, learning to needle major muscle groups in all areas of the body but focused looking at conditions such as Achilles Tendonosis, Shoulder Impingement and SIJ dysfunctions. As we look at each of these conditions we teach you how to needle trigger points in the muscles that may be dysfunctional in those conditions and then look at how to rehab the conditions using exercises/stretches that Trevor has developed. The Foundation Course teaches you to needle most major muscle groups in the body safely and plenty to take back and use with patients on Monday morning! However we do not needle over the thorax in the Foundation Course because of the risk of pneumothorax. Needling muscles over the thorax is considered more advanced and therefore is included in the Advanced Upper Limb Course.

The course is designed to help practitioners integrate dry needling into their clinical approach with a view to addressing the underlying causes of some of the more common clinical presentations we treat. Having taught over 120 introductory and advanced courses for AUT, PAANZ, the APA of Australia and Asia over the last 9 years. Trevor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his teaching in this specialty area.

No pre-requisite to attending this course.

Non PAANZ members and non PNZ members are welcome.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

[Please bring a towel and shorts for both days.]

[ NOTE: All attendees must be registered in New Zealand and have a current APC. ]

• A.U.T North Shore Campus. The map of the Campus can be found here. NB: carparking is free at AUT on weekends.
• Room: AA127

The Acupuncture Concepts – Enhanced Needling Skills (ENS) Parts A, B and C courses are designed to introduce safe needling and both Western and Traditional Chinese concepts of acupuncture practice. The courses are for participants who want to extend their acupuncture knowledge and skills beyond dry needling or those who need an acupuncture refresher course. The course is to be completed sequentially for participants who have only dry needling training or who have not completed the 80 hours of formal acupuncture training pre-requisite. Participants who have completed 80 hours of formal acupuncture training may participate in any course as needed.

The 2-day Western Acupuncture programme is recapping the sentinel ‘points’ theoretical and practical learned during the previous weekend and introducing some clinical reasoning strategies as to why local, segmental or big-point extra-segmental needling is useful.

More acupuncture points will be learned as well as the application of acupuncture needling to regularly seen conditions in practice.

Case study analysis will guide treatment of some common conditions relating to degenerative conditions, acute injury healing and how not to over-treat your patients

Venue: AUT, North Campus
A.U.T North Shore Campus. The map of the Campus can be found here. NB: carparking is free at AUT on weekends.

Room: AA127

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries

Pricing

PAANZ member rate $600 please click here for discount code
PNZ member rate $700
Non PNZ member rate $850

*Please Note: All attendees must be registered in New Zealand and have a current APC.

Pre-requisites:

The course is to be completed sequentially; ie the prerequisite for this course is Acupuncture Concept A. If you have done other Acupuncture training, please contact PAANZ to see if this course is appropriate for you.

Please note:

• Part C (Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Acupuncture) course also available.
• A discount is available for participants who attend all three parts in one calendar year.

This foundation course taught by Trevor Montgomery, in association with PAANZ, is suitable for all physiotherapists wishing to expand their clinical reasoning and treatment skill sets with the use of dry needling. The course has a large practical component with particular emphasis on safe needling practice as set out in the latest PAANZ safety guidelines.

The course is an introduction to Dry Needling, learning to needle major muscle groups in all areas of the body but focused looking at conditions such as Achilles Tendonosis, Shoulder Impingement and SIJ dysfunctions. As we look at each of these conditions we teach you how to needle trigger points in the muscles that may be dysfunctional in those conditions and then look at how to rehab the conditions using exercises/stretches that Trevor has developed. The Foundation Course teaches you to needle most major muscle groups in the body safely and plenty to take back and use with patients on Monday morning! However we do not needle over the thorax in the Foundation Course because of the risk of pneumothorax. Needling muscles over the thorax is considered more advanced and therefore is included in the Advanced Upper Limb Course.

The course is designed to help practitioners integrate dry needling into their clinical approach with a view to addressing the underlying causes of some of the more common clinical presentations we treat. Having taught over 120 introductory and advanced courses for AUT, PAANZ, the APA of Australia and Asia over the last 9 years. Trevor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his teaching in this specialty area.

No pre-requisite to attending this course.

Non PAANZ members and non PNZ members are welcome.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

[Please bring a towel and shorts for both days.]

[ NOTE: All attendees must be registered in New Zealand and have a current APC. ]

• A.U.T North Shore Campus. The map of the Campus can be found here. NB: carparking is free at AUT on weekends.
• Room: AA127

This course will introduce acupuncture as a paradigm for the treatment of common pelvic and women’s health conditions. Principles of TCM and western medical acupuncture paradigms will converge for discussions around the treatment of:

• Menopausal symptoms
• Infertility
• PCOS
• Dysmenorrhea
• Amenorrhea
• Menorrhagia
• Incontinence – urge
• Pelvic girdle pain
• Morning sickness
• Endometriosis

And a discussion on the “forbidden points” in pregnancy – fact, fiction or dogma?

A basic knowledge of TCM principles is recommended, but a refresher of these principles will be included in the course.

The final two hours of the second day will include needling of the pelvic floor which includes internal examination. This section is limited to pelvic health physiotherapists credentialled in performing internals, and will be vetted by the tutor. Please indicate on the registration if you are credentialled in internal examinations and would like to participate in this section of the course (your consent to having an internal exam can be declined at any time). Male and female participants are welcome.

PAANZ Member Rate $600 please click here for the discount code

PNZ Member Rate $700

Non-PNZ Member Rate $850

Course Description: Part C of the PAANZ 2020 Enhanced Needling skills course is a two-day course on TCM theory and practice.

Enhanced Needling Skills: Parts A, B and C

The Enhanced Needling Skills (ENS) Parts A, B and C courses are designed to introduce safe needling and both Western and Traditional Chinese concepts of acupuncture practice. The courses are for participants who want to extend their acupuncture knowledge and skills beyond dry needling or those who need an acupuncture refresher course. The course is to be completed sequentially for participants who have only dry needling training or who have not completed the 80 hours of formal acupuncture training pre-requisite. Participants who have completed 80 hours of formal acupuncture training may participate in any course as needed.

Part C of the PAANZ 2020 Enhanced Needling skills course is a two-day course on TCM theory and practice.

Course Participants will be introduced to the richness of the conceptual model that is Traditional Chinese Medicine, and gain some understanding of how this model contains a diagnostic framework that allows a refining of acupuncture point selection – and often an enhanced treatment efficacy.

As an Acupuncturist I have been constantly impressed by how this ancient paradigm of treatment still has clinical relevance in our modern age. Coming from a strong background within the modern medical model you will enjoy how, with further education, you can enhance the efficacy of your acupuncture treatment by applying TCM concepts.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

Pre-requisites:

The course is to be completed sequentially; ie the prerequisite for this course is Acupuncture Concept A and B. If you have done other Acupuncture training, please contact PAANZ to see if this course is appropriate for you.

Please note:

• A discount is available for participants who attend all three parts in one calendar year.

Time: Saturday 9:30am – 5pm and Sunday 8am – 3:30pm

Please bring a towel and shorts for both days

The Advanced Dry Needling course for the Upper Half of the Body aims to teach course participants how to needle myofascial components from T7 upward. This is a very practical course, including the teaching of advanced techniques around the scapulothoracic region, shoulder, upper limbs and neck with particular emphasis on safety and efficacy. One of the major goals is for participants to integrate the use of dry needling into their clinical reasoning process and their clinical approach to treat common (and not so common) upper body conditions.

Case studies will be discussed to further enhance the clinical reasoning behind the use of dry needling, and its integration with other physiotherapy skill sets, such as manual therapy, muscle balancing, exercise prescription and postural advice.

Course Prerequisite:

Attendance requires completion of one of the following courses: PAANZ Foundation Dry Needling Course, APA Introductory Segmental and Dry Needling Course, Post-Graduate Western Acupuncture qualification from AUT or Otago. If you have undertaken dry needling training from another provider please contact the PAANZ administrator to see if it qualifies as a pre-requisite for the Advanced Course.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

Time: Saturday 8:30am – 5pm and Sunday 8:30am – 3pm

Symposium: 8:30am – 5:30pm

Gala Dinner: 7pm – late

Join your fellow PAANZ members from past and present for a day of education followed by a Gala Dinner to celebrate 40 years as an organisation.

The Gala dinner is included in the ticket price!

The symposium will follow its normal format of PAANZ tutors and invited speakers presenting on a variety of topics

Full programme to follow, but speakers are:

• Susan Kohut
• Rebecca Armstrong
  
• Grant Johnston
• Gayle O’Duffy
• Guy Bailey
• Robin Kelly
  
• Rielle Friedrich
• Debra Betts
  
• Michelle Hall

Please bring a towel and shorts for both days

• Saturday 28 October 2023 8.00am – 5.00pm
• Sunday 29 October 2023 2023 8.00am – 3.30pm

This foundation course taught by Trevor Montgomery, in association with PAANZ, is suitable for all physiotherapists wishing to expand their clinical reasoning and treatment skill sets with the use of dry needling. The course has a large practical component with particular emphasis on safe needling practice as set out in the latest PAANZ safety guidelines.

The course is an introduction to Dry Needling, learning to needle major muscle groups in all areas of the body but focused looking at conditions such as Achilles Tendonosis, Shoulder Impingement and SIJ dysfunctions. As we look at each of these conditions we teach you how to needle trigger points in the muscles that may be dysfunctional in those conditions and then look at how to rehab the conditions using exercises/stretches that Trevor has developed. The Foundation Course teaches you to needle most major muscle groups in the body safely and plenty to take back and use with patients on Monday morning! However we do not needle over the thorax in the Foundation Course because of the risk of pneumothorax. Needling muscles over the thorax is considered more advanced and therefore is included in the Advanced Upper Limb Course.

The course is designed to help practitioners integrate dry needling into their clinical approach with a view to addressing the underlying causes of some of the more common clinical presentations we treat. Having taught over 120 introductory and advanced courses for AUT, PAANZ, the APA of Australia and Asia over the last 9 years. Trevor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his teaching in this specialty area.

No pre-requisite to attending this course.

Non PAANZ members and non PNZ members are welcome.

The map of the Campus can be found here. NB: carparking is free at AUT on weekends.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

Please bring a towel and shorts for both days

Time: Saturday 8.30am – 5.00pm & Sunday 8.30am – 3.00pm

The Advanced Dry Needling course for the Upper Half of the Body aims to teach course participants how to needle myofascial components from T7 upward. This is a very practical course, including the teaching of advanced techniques around the scapulothoracic region, shoulder, upper limbs and neck with particular emphasis on safety and efficacy. One of the major goals is for participants to integrate the use of dry needling into their clinical reasoning process and their clinical approach to treat common (and not so common) upper body conditions.

Case studies will be discussed to further enhance the clinical reasoning behind the use of dry needling, and its integration with other physiotherapy skill sets, such as manual therapy, muscle balancing, exercise prescription and postural advice.

Course Prerequisite:

Attendance requires completion of one of the following courses: PAANZ Foundation Dry Needling Course, APA Introductory Segmental and Dry Needling Course, Post-Graduate Western Acupuncture qualification from AUT or Otago. If you have undertaken dry needling training from another provider please contact the PAANZ administrator to see if it qualifies as a pre-requisite for the Advanced Course.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

Time: 9.00am – 4.00pm

Course Description:

Have you ever wondered how your different skills could be combined for the benefit of your patient? Manual therapy, acupuncture and pain sciences are discussed, integrated and applied to patient cases. Practical sessions using needling and manual therapy are included. Safety guidelines will also be summarised in light of the most recent research.

*Please Note: All attendees must be registered in New Zealand and have a current APC.

To attend this course you should have 80 hours of needling training with at least 40 hours being outside of Dry Needling. If you are unsure whether you meet the minimum requirements, please contact the PAANZ administrator PAANZ@physiotherapy.org.nz