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François Beyens, medical acupuncturist, Studied 3 years in the Far East. Has been treating patients, teaching students, writing books and articles. Active in congresses and seminars, Constantly thinking and adapting the technique. Has dedicated his life to acupuncture, of which he is a lucid defender.
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My Articles
- Acupuncture and Olympic Games
In sporting events like the Olympic Games, acupuncture has a role to play before, during and after the performances of the athletes. This role is often neglected which is a pity because for quite a few of finely tuned contenders it could improve their preparation, their perfomance and their recuperation.
In Category - Health & Fitness
- What about acupuncture needles?
What are these needles used for acupuncture? What are they made off? Has there been an evolution from the beginning? This article just wants to tiltillate your curiosity and at the same time give you a few insights in the surprisingly complex world of the Chinese acupuncture needle.
In Category - Health & Fitness
- The manipulation of the acupuncture needle: is it necessary?
One of the topics on which the acupuncture teachers insist is the manipulation of the needle after it has been inserted in the point. The techniques can be compicated, even not very practical. But are these gestures really essential when very few practritioners apply them and still obtain good results?
In Category - Health & Fitness
- The Nine Needles of Acupuncture: Really for Modern Times?
In the curriculum of an acupuncture course there is nearly always a chapter on the Nine Needles, supposedly the tools of an acupuncturist. Actually they are remnants of the past but the instructors feel often obliged to spend time on talking or writing about them. Historically speakig it is useful information, but will certainly not be of any help to a practitioner of the 21st century.
In Category - Health & Fitness
- The intellectual tools for acupuncture
There are several ways for getting information about acupuncture, whether out of curiosity or to learn the technique. Each of them have their advantages and their drawbacks, and they all need careful thinking, analyzing and evaluating because of the particular historical, social and cultural environnment in which the technique was created.
In Category - Health & Fitness
- How to teach acupuncture
Because of the lack of control in the world of acupuncture, many kinds of teaching can be found, from transmitting, adapting, inventing to modernizing, from huge courses to more eclectic ones, from philosophical to pragamtic attitudes, sometimes forgetting the ultimate aim which is to treat a patient in the most possible efficien way.Distant teaching through online courses is the last kind of acupuncture courses, but it still needs improvement.
In Category - Health & Fitness
- Acupuncture training in the last 40 years
A few insights in the evolution of acupuncture teaching since it hit the news in the beginning of the seventies
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