How did the activity go: Did the postural analysis tell you anything new that you didn’t know about yourself? I wasn’t aware that my slouching over the years has caused my shoulders to stoop forward, and my cervical spine to become rounded. This may be why I carry tension...

How has chronic pain affected you or someone you know? I’ve had recurring aches and pains, which are non specific, and can be due to multifactorial inputs. The spine and surrounding muscles can be fatigued, causing backache and incorrect posture and referred pain. Other factors are internal (from organs),...

Discussion Questions for Tutorial: Share your miasmatic self-analysis. • Do you consider that the key themes of the dominant miasm indicated are accurate for you? My results were ‘psoric miasm’, which doesn’t surprise me. I recognise that symptoms of low energy or underfunctioning are part of this miasm. It...

Tutorial: Construct a brief written case study, based on a current or past health situation of your own, or somebody close to you who has given you their permission to discuss here (you could even ask a pet). If using the health information of another person, be sure to...

TCM Consultation and Acupuncture Treatment I attended a consultation with a TCM registered acupuncturist at my local massage and wellness clinic. I shared that I’m studying this introductory course. The practitioner asked me about what I’m learning, and I briefed her about the course so far. For the consultation...

5 Flavours -Eggplant Salad Forum Discussion Questions: In relation to the recipe that you prepared for your activity; do you think that you will prepare it again? (Why or why not). Could you adapt this recipe to accommodate special dietary needs (such as a vegan or dairy diet)? This...

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Explain your understanding of the difference between osteopathy and other forms of manual therapies such as chiropractic, remedial massage, etc. Manual therapies such as Chiropractic, Osteopathy, Remedial Massage, all address Musculoskeletal function, pain and injury, and each modality has its own particular training and application in approaches to treatment....

Choose any one (1) symptom of interest to you described by the client or their guardian. • Locate a rubric for this symptom in the repertory. For this one I looked up a lot of rubrics, including mind: Imagination, acute vivid, visual, animals bugs, impatient, impulsive, nostalgia, away from...

Week 6  Discuss your experience while checking out a few tongues. Discuss some of the tongues posted on the forum. I did my draft on this page and when I pressed post to forum I got an error message and lost my work. There weren’t other posts when I...