The 3rd JSAM International Symposium on Evidence-based Acupuncture- Evidence of the Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Headache -Date

June 7-8, 2012

Venue

Yokkaichi Municipal Culture Hall
2-5-3 Yasujima, Yokkaichi, Mie, 510-0075, Japan
Phone: 0569-354-4501 (from Abroad: +81-569-354-4501)
http://yokkaichi-shinko.com/yonbun/index.html

Congress Chair

Suji Goto, President of JSAM

Secretary General

Hitoshi Yamashita, Chair, Department of Research, JSAM

DAY 1 (Thursday, June 7)
10:00-12:00

CharacteristicsofJapanese

Acupuncture

Pre-Symposium

Business Category

Lectures

Characteristics of Acupuncture Patients in Japan

Michiyo Kitagawa
Naoto Ishizaki
Meiji University ofFeatures of Japanese
Acupuncture

Integrative Medicine
Present Status and Practice of Meridian Shuichi Katai
Acupuncture Therapy

Chairpersons:

Tsukuba College ofTechnology

Hirokazu Nakano

History and Practice of Shoni-Shin (Pediatric Shin Suzuki

Naomi Takazawa

Acupuncture)
Acupuncture Practice based on the Knowledge Tomomi Sakaiof Modern Medicine

Tokyo Ariake University of Medicaland Health Sciences

Overview of Japanese Acupuncture in Europe

Stephen Birch
University College of Health Sciences– Campus Kristiania, Oslo, Norway.
Foundation for the Study of Traditional
East Asian Medicine, Amsterdam,Holland.

12:00-13:00

Lunch Break13:00-13:15

Opening Ceremony

13:15-15:15

Primary Headache: Update of Classification

Session 1Fumihiko Sakai
Saitama NeuropsychiatricInstitute

Reviews ofSurvey of Primary Headaches at a Headache Hisaka Igarashi

Management ofClinic in Japan – What Kind of Patients Visit aHeadache and Role

Headache Clinnic and What can a Headache Medicine Yokohama Clinicof Acupuncture

Specialist Do for Them?-

Kanagawa Dental College ofAcupuncture Treatment for Headache in Korea: Byung-Cheul Shin
Chairpersons

Clinical Practice and Trials

School of Korean Medicine

Satoru Yamaguchi

Pusan National University, South

Ikuro Wakayama

Korea
Effect of Acupuncture for Chronic Hedache in Mari Suzuki
University Hospital

Saitama Medical University

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-17:30

Acupuncture in Patients with Migraine and Benno Brinkhaus

Session 2Tension Type Headache – The Results of the Institute for Social

Clinical Trials

ARC Trial, the Two ART Trials and the Overall

Medicine, Epidemiology and Health

Evidence

Economics, Charité University

and Case Series on
Acupuncture forHeadache

Medical Center, Germany
Acupuncture for Headache and Migraine: an Myeong Soo Lee
Overview of Systematic Reviews on RCTs

Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine,South Korea

Chairpersons
Stephen Birch

Basic Research on Acupuncture for Primary

Tomokazu Kikuchi

Hiroshi Omata

Headache

Saitama Medical University

DAY 2 (Friday, June 8)
9:00-11:30

A Brief Review on Clinical Trials of Acupuncture in

Shoko Masuyama

Session 3

Japan

Morinomiya University of Medical
Sciences

ProblemsofResearch Methodology in Clinical Trial on

Benno Brinkhaus

ClinicalonAcupuncture – The Choice of the Trial Design andInstitutethe Control Group Following the Primary

Epidemiology and Health Economics,

Research Question -Charité University Medical Center,

TrialAcupunctureChairpersons

forSocialMedicine,Germany

Myeong-Soo Lee

The Effect of Thumbtack Needle Stimulation inYasuhisa Kaneko

Hitoshi Yamashita

Sports Field

Tokyo College of Medico-Pharmaco
Technology

On the Mechanisms of Physiological Activities

Kenji Kawakita

Produced by Various Sham Interventions Used in

Meiji University of Integrative Medicine

Recent Clinical Trials of Acupuncture
Sham Acupuncture is Not a Placebo Treatment – Stephen Birch
Implications and Problems in Research -Foundation for the Study of Traditional
East Asian Medicine, Amsterdam,Holland.
University College of Health Sciences– Campus Kristiania, Oslo, Norway

11:30

Closing Ceremony

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