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Integrative Pain Management - Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education
  • Start Date: 23 May, 2022
  • 4 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Improve your pain diagnosis and treatment as you learn how to combine Chinese and Western medicine for effective pain management.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Develop your understanding of pain management


Pain, though common, is often extremely complex to treat and diagnose. Health professionals must navigate through the many different causes and influential factors to provide effective treatment for their patients.


On this four-week course, you’ll learn how to use an integrative clinical approach to improve pain diagnosis and treatment. You’ll discover the different pain management approaches in both Chinese and Western medicine before learning how to combine the two for effective results.


By the end, you’ll have professional pain management knowledge to take into your workplace.


Explore the pain pathway and causes of pain


Furthering your knowledge of pain and its symptoms, you’ll explore pain pathway, threshold, and types of pain.


This knowledge will help you understand pain and its burden, and how to address it timely and properly by using a comprehensive assessment.


Delve into Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine


You’ll unpack the different treatment approaches in Western medicine before exploring traditional Chinese medicine and how it treats both symptoms and root causes.


You’ll be given an overview of Chinese medicine and how its two key notions – holism and pattern identification – can be applied in pain management.


Next, you’ll investigate the existing situation between Chinese and Western medicine before analysing the upcoming collaboration between the two approaches to help enhance pain treatment.


Learn from the experts at HKU SPACE


Throughout the course, you’ll be guided by the experts at HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE) and to help you explore and understand a variety of pain management strategies.


With this knowledge, you’ll be equipped to improve your pain diagnosis and treatment in your workplace.


This course is designed for Western medical professionals such as pain medicine specialists, general practitioners, physiotherapists, psychologists, and nurses.


It may also be useful for Chinese medicine practitioners who are interested in integrative pain management.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

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