Students - Bruce Miller Seminars
These seminars will provide PRACTICAL HANDS-ON ADVICE FOR DEALING WITH MINOR ACHES AND PAINS of the sort regularly encountered in martial arts and other training.
Bruce Miller worked for many years in the medical service of the US army, using acupunture on a regular basis. Medical acupuncture as used by Bruce takes advantage of our current best scientific understanding of how the body works. Further, therapy is evidence-based, i.e. based on scientific studies of the effectiveness of particular techniques for particular ailments. Bruce does not use needles but a hand held device (CENS), standard in medical acupuncture, that delivers small electric pulses over appropriate locations.
This device can be bought by anyone from Amazon for example. www.amazon.com
For dealing with minor sports ailments, Bruce also practices a type of manual musculo-skeletal manipulation called "anmo yao" or "tui na", chinese therapeutic massage. He was taught a Vietnamese version which he refined in his medical training. Gentle manipulation can quickly resolve a number of aches and pains that if left unattended may produce chronic problems.
This series of seminars provide a rare chance to learn both acupuncture and anmo techniques. Each seminar will emphasize the techniques of one approach and touch on the techniques of the other, as detailed below.
DISCLAIMER:
Bruce does not teach these techniques in the treatment of diseases except to medical doctors and other medical personnel: you must have relevant medical training to make a correct diagnosis and appreciate correct treatment. The seminars for the 2008 May/June tour are available to everyone and so will only deal with minor aches and pains. Nothing shown will form a substitute for seeing a qualified doctor. Nonetheless, you will be shown techniques for mild to moderate pain that everyone can safely practice on themselves and others.
Each seminar will cost £20.
All welcome, both non-martial artists and martial artists.
Anmo seminars
Thursday 29 May
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Sacred Hearts Church Hall, Oakdale Rd , Cobham, Surrey KT11 1AA.
For further information, contact: Alan Platt at alan@uk-karate.com
Friday 30 May - Buxton.
For further information contact: Robert Agar-Hutton - robert@protectics.co.uk
Sunday 1 June
10am - 1pm
University of Sussex Sports Centre, Brighton.
For further information contact: Zoltan Dienes at dienes@sussex.ac.uk
Monday 2 June
7:30pm - Stanford le Hope, Essex.
For further information contact: Albie O'Connor at kobudo@blueyonder.co.uk
Tuition and practice in gentle musculo-skeletal manipulation for minor aches and pains. Instruction will be given in what to look for, suitable postures and angles of pressure, and safe practice.
Acupuncture seminar
Saturday 31 May 1:00pm -5:00pm
Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre
Most people have simple pain (from strains/ sprains / general muscle and tendon aches) that can benefit from the use of electronic acupuncture. Bruce will show how the CENS machine can be used for this purpose.The CENS unit does not use needles and cannot cause damage if used as instructed. People can use the knowledge acquired at the seminar to treat mild to moderate pain, assuming they have a device.
For further information contact: Terry Wingrove at sensei@cyberbudo.com
Devices can be obtained from e.g. these sites:
http://www.lhasaoms.com/electro_therapy_devices-44-876-page.html
http://www.amazon.com/Pointer-Plus-Locator-Stimulator/dp/B000DZS9P0
Note Bruce has no connection to these sites or to the manufacturer. His lectures will indicate how some devices work better than others and what to look out for.
For further information, contact: Zoltán Dienes Tel. 01273 678550 or e-mail - dienes@sussex.ac.uk.
Please read the link information. Any support that you give will be much appreciated. If you know of anybody that may be interested please pass the information on. Because there are costs involved it would be nice to have a show of intention. For anybody that is not a regular at my club who attends on March 29th, you can have a free lesson at my club at any time. I'll make a note of your name and you can turn up anytime for your courtesy lesson. The same applies to anybody that you nominate or refer to the Course.
Thank you Alan Platt 6th Dan
