ACMAC on YouTube
ACMAC now has its own YouTube channel with a selection of video clips that should be growing!
Watch the video samples below or visit www.youtube.com/ACMACmedia for a much better cinematic experience!
DVDs
• Multibed Clinics - How and Why? This DVD is ideal if you are interested in learning more about affordable acupuncture programs and finding out how to set up and run a successful multibed clinic in your community.
In July 2009, ACMAC collaborated with the Journal of Chinese Medicine and Balance Healthcare to host the UK’s first multibed acupuncture education and networking event: Multibed Clinics - How and Why? The shared experiences of a range of keynote speakers (such as John Tindall, Peter Deadman, the Dragons of Brighton, Rachel Peckham of NADA, and more) were filmed and produced in this double DVD, the first of its kind showcasing community acupuncture. Running time: 3.5 hours. The DVDs may be purchased from JCM, please follow this link:
www.jcm.co.uk/search.php?search=acmac&frm_submitSearch.x=0&frm_submitSearch.y=0
For those of you in Australia, the DVD can be purchased from Acuneeds. Please follow this link for more details:
www.acuneeds.com/books/book.aspx?area=Books&cat=MMD&code=ACMAC01
You can view the video samples of the event in the ACMAC on YouTube section above.
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RESEARCH
• Low Cost Acupuncture: At What Cost? Penny Shires, 2009. Download “Low Cost Acupuncture: At What Cost?" (PDF)
• Patient survey from Acupuncture Together, Cambridge, MA, USA. Justine Deutsch, 2009.
Please follow this link - www.acupuncturetogether.com/survey.html
• Survey of Community Acupuncture Network (CAN) clinics, USA. Ann Mongeau, 2008.
Please follow this link - www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/blog/survey-can-clinics
• What is Low-Cost, Multi-Bed Acupuncture? Stephen Potter, 2008. Download “What is Low-Cost, Multi-Bed Acupuncture?” (PDF)
• Investigating patients’ experiences of receiving acupuncture treatment in a multibed clinic: A case study of the Dragon Acupuncture Project, Brighton. Charlotte Stone, 2006. Download “Patients' Experiences” (PDF)
• The Role and the Impact of the NADA Protocol (daily group acupuncture treatment used in addiction): Explanatory Case Studies. Rachel Peckham, 2005.
This master's degree thesis investigates clients' experiences of the NADA protocol at the Core Trust in London. There is discussion of the dynamics of group practice which will be of interest to those running multibed clinics. Download “The Role and the Impact of the NADA Protocol" (PDF)
BOOKS
• "Acupuncture is Like Noodles: the Little Red (Cook) Book of Working Class Acupuncture." Lisa Rohleder, et al, USA, 2009.
This book explains not only how acupuncture works, but how community acupuncture clinics work (in the USA - but her writing is brilliant, a must-read for us brits too). The reincarnation of WCA’s original “Little Red Book” (ie The Remedy), Acupuncture Is Like Noodles is written for patients, acupuncture students and prospective acupuncture students, licensed acupuncturists, other medical providers, and anyone else who is curious about the “calmest Revolution ever staged.” It is available from WCA's online shop, please follow this link: www.workingclassacupuncture.org/node/17
• "The Remedy: Integrating Acupuncture into American Healthcare” by Lisa Rohleder, Community Acupuncture Network, USA, 2006.
This excellent book discusses the peculiarities of the American healthcare/insurance quandary, but its message is inspiring and universal, and is highly recommended to all those thinking of setting up a community/multibed clinic. It is available from www.lulu.com. |
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ARTICLES
• "Multi‐bed acupuncture clinics: a new model of practice". Charlotte Stone, ACMAC (October 2008):
Abstract: Multi‐bed acupuncture clinics ‐ a recent and successful phenomenon in the UK ‐ utilise a new business model for the provision of more affordable acupuncture treatments. Patients benefit from reduced cost of treatment in exchange for some loss of privacy, and they overwhelmingly report being treated in a communal setting as a positive experience. Practitioners benefit from a highly stimulating and supportive working environment, a significantly increased potential client base and the satisfaction of providing more accessible treatment.
Download "Multi‐bed acupuncture clinics: a new model of practice" (PDF)
• “High volume acupuncture clinic (HVAC) for chronic knee pain – audit of a possible model for delivery of acupuncture in the National Health Service”. Saul Berkovitz et al, (2008). Acupuncture In Medicine; 26(1):46-50
An example of how something similar to the multibed model is being used in the NHS.
Download "High volume acupuncture clinic (HVAC) for chronic knee pain" (PDF)
• Roy Green: Pioneering Community Acupuncture in Israel (December 2008 - March 2009)
Roy has been practicing Community (multibed) Acupuncture since late 2008. He is one of the first to do so in Isreal, and wrote a blog about his experiences on the CAN website. Learn more at:
www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/blog/update-launching-community-acupuncture-jerusalem-israel-blog-version
He also talks about the responses he received and his feelings about it all;
see www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/blog/stirring-it
and www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/blog/spreading-word-and-tearing-down-walls
• Belinda Coppock, BAcC Safe Practice Committee (April 2008):
Belinda Coppock of the BAcC Safe Practice Committee visited several Affordable Acupuncture multibed clinics in 2008 and reported that there are no additional Safe Practice issues for multibed clinics than for any other clinic. (Please note there are a couple of mistakes in her article: she reports that 70% of multibed patients have had acupuncture before - in at least one of the clinics she visited this number is actually as low as 5%. Also she is mistaken saying that all multibed practitioners also have a private practice - at least two she talked with practice only from a multibed.)
Download "Multibed clinics" (PDF)
• Alex Wood, Swansea Acupuncture Project (December 2007):
"I see a wider range of health complaints than ever before and treat people from all ends of the community. Both my wallet and my clinical knowledge have expanded!
The last six months has lead me to speculate that across the UK there may be … similar projects who are currently benefiting from auricular acupuncture and may be keen to have low cost acupuncture clinic as part of their service. Is this the way forward for more affordable acupuncture clinics?"
Download "Swansea Acupuncture Project" (PDF)
• "The Art of the Sliding Scale, Part One: Creating Inclusion" - Lisa Rohleder, Community Acupuncture Network, USA (2006):
“One of the most powerful tools in the social entrepreneur's toolbox is the sliding scale… Some acupuncturists think that offering a sliding scale means you don't value your own work, that you are not serious about making a living, or that you are suffering from "poverty consciousness." The problem with these assessments is that they lack economic context.”
Download "The Art of the Sliding Scale, Part One: Creating Inclusion" (PDF)
• "Restructuring American Acupuncture Practices" A proposal by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon (May 2003):
Dharmananda challenges the model of weekly acupuncture that has become so firmly rooted in the West, and discusses how the weekly model has no precedent in China, limits which conditions acupuncture can treat, and can ultimately cost the patient more than frequent acupuncture.
Read "Restructuring American Acupuncture Practices"
• Community acupuncture successful in the treatment of US war veterans:
Read "Community Acupuncture Provides Relief and Recovery for U.S. Soldiers and Veterans"
ACMAC BADGES
Spread the word and introduce your website visitors to ACMAC! Simply download one of the ACMAC badges below in your favourite colour and decorate your website. Want your badge in a different colour? Please let us know and we will paint it just for you!
OTHER RESOURCES
COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE NETWORK (USA)
• www.workingclassacupuncture.org - inspirational multibed clinic in Portland, Oregon, USA, run by the equally inspirational and straight-talking Lisa Rohleder and associates. From this site you can download WCA’s free e-book Love Your Micro business: Marketing a Community-Based Acupuncture Practice.
• video.google.com/videosearch?q=working+class+acupuncture&sitesearch=# - this link will take you to various videos about American community acupuncture. Patients from Working Class Acupuncture discuss the benefits of acupuncture and community (=multibed) clinics. Lisa Rohleder of WCA lectures the local acupuncture college on the community acupuncture business model. Plus some shorter clips about different clinics and practitioners in the States.
• www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org is WCA’s bugle by which they promote and support multibed/community acupuncture clinics in the US, and is the inspiration for ACMAC. There’s also loads of links to other writing by Lisa.
THE ACUPUNCTURE NETWORK (AUSTRALIA)
The Acupuncture Network is a dynamic group of eastern medicine practitioners and students who believe the community is best served by the free sharing of ideas & information, beyond geographic and ideological borders. They support practitioners, educators, researchers & students worldwide by facilitating networking, mentoring & education in online forum discussion. Membership is free and the Acupuncture Network is a non-profit incorporated association.
You will need to register to use the forum which welcomes both practitioners and students.
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• If you would like to learn more about acupuncture or find a practitioner in your area, please visit the British Acupuncture Council at www.acupuncture.org.uk
• Chinese Medicine Times - Chinese medicine and acupuncture ejournal for practitioners and students.
