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Clinical Session Proposals

Clinical Techniques

Session Name: Get to the Point! Complementing Your Physiatric Practice with Acupuncture

2 - Utility of Acupuncture in Neurologic Patients

Thursday, October 20, 2022

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM ET

Location: 324-326

Speaker(s)

Ning Cao, MD

Inpatient Rehabilitation Service Line Director
Johns Hopkins Hospital PMR department, Maryland

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

PDF of Slides

This section will review the medical literature on the use of acupuncture on neurologic patients including stroke, spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis, and migraine.

Learning Objectives:

understand the current evidence for the utility of acupuncture in common neurological disease
get the most recent literature updates on how acupuncture therapy modulates the plasticity of the central nervous system
learn the clinical application of acupuncture therapy in neurological conditions