PAANZ Courses 2024

Foundation Acupuncture Part A and B – Safety and starting acupuncture

The Foundation Acupuncture courses Parts A, B, C and D courses are designed to introduce safe needling and both Western and Traditional concepts of acupuncture practice.

The courses are for beginners and participants who want to extend their acupuncture knowledge and skills beyond dry needling or those who need an acupuncture refresher course.

These courses can be used in part to gain Registration as a Physiotherapy Acupuncturist, which requires 150 hours of dry needling and/or acupuncture training.

There are no prerequisites for this course, however they are to be completed sequentially.

Foundation Acupuncture – Part B – Western Acupuncture

Part B is a 2-day course. Western Acupuncture theory is explored in more detail and the sentinel ‘points’ theory and practice learned during the previous weekend (Part A) is extended. Clinical reasoning strategies as to why local, segmental or big-point extra-segmental needling is explored.

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.

Please note:

Following on from doing this course, Part C (Traditional Acupuncture) and Part D – Sports Acupuncture are also available.

Pre-requisites:

Parts A and B are to be done prior to Part C and/or Part D, unless eqivalant courses have been done.

All attendees must be registered in New Zealand and have a current and relevant APC.

Sign up for 3 or more Foundation Acupuncture courses in one calendar year and receive a multi course discount of $150 for the series.

This is a two day, theory and practical course covering needling techniques and rehab for shoulder issues – held at Burwood Hospital in Christchurch.

You will learn and practice how to needle safely and effectively for shoulder issues, using dry-needling, Western  and Traditional acupuncture techniques.

With an emphasise on shoulder biomechanics, you will also be shown and practice useful manual joint mobilisation and muscle facilitation techniques. This will give you a range of techniques to choice from to aid any shoulder issue, including acute shoulder pain and correcting subtle muscle balance issues that can aggravate shoulder pathologies.

Pre-requisites: participants need to have attended as a minimum a PAANZ dry needling course or our standard 80 hours training.

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.

Having taught over 200 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.

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.

This Course aims to explore and expand on the participants knowledge and understanding of Zang Fu.

Zang Fu involves the concepts that are absolutely fundamental to the practice of Traditional Acupuncture. This ancient model still has modern day clinical relevance in providing a framework for both diagnosis and treatment prescription that is both elegant and effective.

Zang Fu may be described as the organ system in the terms of functional inter-relationship. All the channels connect to the Zang Fu; they are involved with the interchange between body and environment. Zang Fu diagnostic is useful to assess the underlying imbalance of a dysfunction or pathology.

By gaining a deeper understanding of the concepts of Zang Fu course participants will clarify their understanding of the functions of the acupuncture points. The use of Zang Fu acupuncture really helps bring alive ones practice, promoting lasting change for your patients.

A short Qi Gong component will be part off the day. Come along to the course! We’re planning for it to be fun!

NB: This course would be too challenging to practitioners trained in dry needling only. It should only be open to practitioners trained in acupuncture to a level permitting PAANZ registration.

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

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

The Extraordinary Meridian Course introduces the practitioner to the function and roles of the eight extraordinary meridians and their wide range of use to treat various musculoskeletal conditions. In traditional acupuncture these are used in complicated conditions, chronic cases characterized by multiple issues, confusing patterns and complex cases that sometimes show disparate symptom patterns.

This is a very practical course. Participants will spend time learning about the zones of influence of the 8 Extraordinay meridians and the clinical application of these. Accurate location by palpation of the points opening the Extra Ordinary Meridians will be covered in depth. We not only will cover how to treat with acupuncture, but as well with an effective thread Moxa technique called okyu (which produces minimal smoke).

Safe needling over the thorax. Come and review the anatomy of the lung fields, key acupuncture point and trigger point locations over the lung fields and needling techniques to ensure safety of practice over the lung fields. Practice gaining appropriate informed consent and reflect on the current literature on pneumothoraxes’ and its implications to current practice.

Pre-requisites for this Course: Must have acupuncture needling skills – not suitable for those with dry needling skills only.

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 200 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.

• Room AA127, AA Building, AUT, North Shore Campus. The map of the Campus can be found here.
• Carpark 5 (Gate 2) is free at AUT on weekends.

Foundation Acupuncture Course: Parts A, B, C and D

The Foundation Acupuncture courses Parts A, B, C and D courses are designed to introduce safe needling and both Western and Traditional concepts of acupuncture practice.

The courses are for beginners and participants who want to extend their acupuncture knowledge and skills beyond dry needling or those who need an acupuncture refresher course.

These courses can be used in part to gain Registration as a Physiotherapy Acupuncturist, which requires 150 hours of dry needling and/or acupuncture training.

There are no prerequisites for this course, however they are to be completed sequentially.

Part C of the PAANZ Foundation Course is a two-day course on Traditional Acupuncture theory and practice.

Course Participants will be introduced to the richness of the conceptual model that is Traditional Acupuncture, 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 a Physio-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 Traditional Acupuncture concepts.

This course can be done once Foundation Parts A and B have been completed (or if you have done similar acupuncture courses in the past). If you are unsure if you meet the prerequisite requirements please contact PAANZ.

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

Sign up for 3 or more Foundation Acupuncture courses in one calendar year and receive a multi course discount of $150 for the series.

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 and B. If you have done other Acupuncture training, please contact PAANZ to see if this course is appropriate for you.

Please note:

• Following on from doing this course, Part D – Sports Acupuncture are also available.

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 200 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 traditional 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 traditional acupuncture 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

The Advanced Dry Needling course for the Lower Half of the Body aims to teach course participants how to needle myofascial components from T7 down. This is a very practical course, including the teaching of advanced techniques around the thoracolumbar region, pelvis and lower limbs 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) lower 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.

Having taught over 200 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.

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 bring a towel and shorts for both days ]

The Foundation Acupuncture courses Parts A, B, C and D courses are designed to introduce safe needling and both Western and Traditional concepts of acupuncture practice.

The courses are for beginners and participants who want to extend their acupuncture knowledge and skills beyond dry needling or those who need an acupuncture refresher course.

These courses can be used in part to gain Registration as a Physiotherapy Acupuncturist, which requires 150 hours of dry needling and/or acupuncture training.

There are no prerequisites for this course, however they are to be completed sequentially.

Foundation Acupuncture – Part D – Sports Acupuncture

The Foundation Acupuncture Courses Part D is designed to introduce both Western and Eastern Traditional Acupuncture concepts of acupuncture practice with application to sports injuries and the athletic/sporting population. This part is for participants who want to extend their acupuncture knowledge and skills beyond dry needling or those who would like an acupuncture refresher course with application to a musculoskeletal sports setting; for injuries, functional performance improvements, and utilisation in clinic or with a travelling athlete/team. The goal of this course is to understand the value of acupuncture, and undertake your needling skills for the sporting clients. Case study analysis will enable you to rationalise when and where dry needling can be incorporated with acupuncture to enhance patient outcomes.

This course can be done once Foundation Parts A and B have been completed (or if you have done similar acupuncture courses in the past). If you are unsure if you meet the prerequisite requirements please contact PAANZ.

Pre-requisites:

The course is to be completed sequentially for participants who have already completed of Foundation Acupuncture Parts A and B as a minimum. PAANZ members with acupuncture training are welcome to attend any course.

Sign up for 3 or more Foundation Acupuncture courses in one calendar year and receive a multi course discount of $150 for the series.

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

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

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 200 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

Anatomy Lab – November

Refreshing acupuncture point location and anatomy on cadavers.

Auckland Medical School, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland

Pre-requisite is any previous Acupuncture or dry needling course.

PNZ members are welcome to attend courses, if they meet the pre-requisite and pay the extra fee.

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

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

This is a two-day course is to be run at the University of Otago, Dunedin.

Topics covered in this course will be:

• Common mental health conditions and symptoms

• Various concepts and models of trauma, recovery and mental health

• How to safely and effectively ustilise acupuncture to assist mental wellbeing and how this impacts mental health directly via neurophysiological changes

• Sleep disturbance, sleep hygiene and how we can use acupuncture to support better sleep

• Common substances, addiction issues, the role of harm reduction and supporting withdrawal phases including smoking cessation with the use of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) protocols

All attendees must have completed 80 hours of formal acupuncture training and have a current APC.