• Dr. Roberto Gatto, President of the Italian Society of Acupuncture (S.I.A.) President of the Study Center So Wen. Consultant of the Italian and Chinese Ministries of Health for Traditional Chinese Medicine. Expert of the Ministry of Health for the ECM Program. Expert of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine  Committee of the Medical Association of Milan.

Title: Acupuncture: What professional training in Italy?

Abstract. Italy, after the Republic of China and Japan, is the Country with the highest density of Medical Acupuncturists. The latter are formed through multi-year post-graduate courses taught in maximum cases, by private training Institutions, active in Italy since the early ’70s. Due to the absence of a national regulatory framework, duration and content of such courses have been subject to self-regulation by the private Institutions themselves and changed over the years. Because of the increase in number of citizens who use Acupuncture in our Country,  is increasingly felt the need to give these patients a safe and effective therapy, through vocational training courses internationally validated and certified.

 

  • Prof. Emilio Minelli,Vice Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, University of Milan.

Title: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Personalized Medicine: similarities and differences

  • Dr. Mohammad Natour, Expert and Lecturer at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, University of Milan.

Title: The Wrist-Ankle technique and Insomnia in TCM

Abstract. The Wrist & Ankle method in acupuncture is a new therapy used to treat the most common diseases of the body in different areas. On the basis of concepts of embryology, it offers advantages such as the choice of points to be treated, painless technique, wide applications. A 30 years’ experience in the treatment is the testimony to live the nature of alternative medicine, the ability to renew providing tools and solutions to people’s diseases. Brief description of the method of communication, simple cases of experts.

 

  • Dr. Mauro Alivia, Specialist in Cardiology, former President of the Italian Society of Anthroposophic Medicine (SIMA), Vice President of the Association for Person-Centered Medicine NPO.

Title: The Anthroposophic Medicine

Abstract. Anthroposophic medicine is an extension of conventional medical approach with the perception of the human being that is proper of anthroposophy. The scientific approach proper of anthroposophic medicine investigates the human being as a unit greater than the sum of his parts. The human being is regarded as a unique spiritual being, with his own reason for existence and his own direction which is expressed during the course of his biography. He interacts with the surrounding world thanks to his life of emotions, feelings and perceptions that are allowed by a physical body, penetrated with life processes. This allows a gradual diagnostic expansion that regards an evaluation in relation to imbalances in the physical, psychological and spiritual areas as well as the interaction of a harmonious or disharmonious relationship between the processes of life, body, soul and spirit in an organ, organ systems or the body as a whole.

Title: Person-Centered Medicine, Salutogenesis and Resilience

Abstract. The Person-Centered Medicine is characterized by a unified vision of the sentient being and the world, dealing with the complexity of natural phenomena, the study of human-environment relations and interactions between mind and body, the meaning of spiritual integrity of human being and the active role of the patient for the purpose of healing and the maintenance of good health. It has, among its foundations, the promotion of health, understood as a process that provides people with the means to ensure greater control over their health level in relation to  individual aspects but also those collective and political, that influence characteristics, changes and sustainability.

 

  • Dr. Massimo Mangialavori, Homeopath Doctor and Director of the International School of Continuing Education in Homeopathic Medicine CIMI-Koinè.

Title: The thought of Complexity in Homeopathic Medicine

Abstract. The thought of complexity has fully entered in different fields of medicine in recent years, with precise epistemological foundations and, most importantly, with obvious theoretical and practical implications especially in Homeopathic Medicine. Some examples of how the clinic can combine with anthropology, traditional medicine, toxicology, pharmacology, the narrative model in a medicine that has always considered the “body” of the patient his main objective: the interface between the physical and the mind.

Some clinical cases will be provided to participants for a full view of the practical implications of the methodology explained.

 

  • Eduardo Rossi D.O., President of the Italian Register of Osteopaths (R.O.I.)

Title: Osteopathy: State of the art in terms of social and political

Abstract. The intervention aims to deal with themes such as the socio-political situation in Italy and in Europe, progress on the recognition and regulation of the Osteopathic profession and the achievement of standardization UNI. The Register of Osteopaths of Italy will be presented explaining how it has become an association of reference also present in the European context as an effective member of the two major federations FEO and FORE. CNA Professions and the benefits that Osteopathy can get from its constitution will be illustrated. We also will talk about the Professional Certification and the lists that CNEL (National Council for Economy and Labour) deposited with the Ministry of Justice. Finally, subject of major importance, he will be provide updates on the DDL AS3750, non-regulated professions in Orders or Colleges, under discussion in the Senate.

  • Dr. Paolo Zavarella D.O.M.ROI, Surgeon, spec. in Odontostomatology, Master Teacher “Natural Medicine”, “Integrated Clinic Posturology”, “Osteopathy” at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and University of Pisa, Director of the School of Osteopathy CROMON, Director of the School of Posturology AIROP.

Title: Osteopathic Intervention in ATM Dysfunctions: a Mouth that moves in a Skull that moves

Abstract. ATM dysfunctions find a new perspective of diagnosis and therapy if they are analyzed in the light of Osteopathic Functional Medicine. The ATM takes on a SYSTEMIC role, and not a SPECIALIST one, of Postural Station and is found to interact (causes and effects) with the cervical spine, muscle chains, temporal bone, sphenoid, occiput … and not only with teeth. Also the BITE can be rethought in the light of these SYSTEMIC considerations: a new model, called DROP Bite (Bite Dynamic of Occlusal-Postural Repositioning), will be introduced . Phono artrometria can show us how it can change the management of dysfunctions when an INTEGRATED Therapy is applied: Gnathological and Osteopathic.

 

  • Dr. John Gordon Williams, President of the Italian Chiropractors Association (A.I.C.).

Title:  Concausal factors and symptoms of dysfunction of the upper limb

Abstract. Shoulder is often the source of many functional and painful problems involving the arm, elbow, wrist and hand. These problems are labeled with various medical terms that tend to call the symptoms rather than face a diagnostic process that considers the proper local and overall biomechanics . The holistic intervention is geared towards the identification of the common symptoms of the upper limb, its global biomechanical analysis in determining these symptoms, the identification of global biomechanical dysfunction and finally a discussion of ergonomic advice and symptomatic corrections.

 

  • Dr. Robert Morrison, Doctor of Chiropractic, Specialist in Applied Kinesiology, President of the Italian branch of the International College of Applied Kinesiology (ICAK Italy).

Title: The Applied Kinesiology

Abstract. Applied Kinesiology is a diagnostic method and a therapeutic approach practiced by doctors, chiropractors, dentists and other health practitioners to evaluate the functionality of the body through muscle testing. The therapy uses some of the principles of alternative medicine: cranio-sacral therapy, chiropractic, meridian therapy, nutrition and various reflex treatments. The partecipation includes demonstrations and practical exercises designed to understand immediately and effectively the methods discussed.

 

  • Dr. Fabio Zagato, M.A. in Psychology, M.D.B. in Natural Medicine, President of the Institute of Research and Energy Therapies (I.R.T.E.), President of the National Federation of Schools of Shiatsu (F.N.S.S.), President of the Interassociation Arts for health (I.A.S.), Executive Adviser Coordination Free Professional Associations (C.O.L.A.P.).

Title: The law of “self-healing crisis” in the Shiatsu technique
Abstract. In all the “energy” techniques is well known the fact that the body, in the path of self-healing, reactivates inharmonious, unresolved and chronic conditions for rework and thus build a better balance. This process, particularly in homeopathy, is known as “self-healing crisis” and was especially studied and systematized by Hahnemann and Hering who codified the rules in the homeopathic method. As to Shiatsu, the process of “false aggravation” was briefly reported by Masunaga Shizuto in the last century, in the early ’70s, with the Japanese term “men khen”, but unfortunately this indication didn’t give rise to successive methodological insights. In about 40 years of personal contact with Receivers, and through a systematic analysis of responses to Shiatsu treatments that I worked with them, I detected in a sufficiently demonstrable way that it is possible to recognize the self-healing activities of Ki (Qi) reported from the crisis self-healing, even according to methods of reading consistent with original knowledge of TCM, supported through a specific application of the Shiatsu technique. Ki’s behaviors, determined by the self-healing process, are regular, recognizable and definable, and such that they can afford to lay out a methodological pattern of use. You can then identify the emergence of different energy Movements during the self-healing phase, considered according to classical models of energy relations, according to sequences that confirm to a great extent Hering’s observations (progression of self-healing of Ki or “life energy”, from the most recent to the most chronic and stratified disorders ). The observation of the receiver’s energy structure is carried out through the conversation with the user, his physiognomy observation and the perceptive analysis of the state of the Meridians and Areas of Energy Evaluation. The collected data is organized in an Energy Axis which detects the most significant phases of the Receiver’s crisis, interpreted through the energy categories of 5 Movements. In this way, in addition to obtain a photograph sufficiently clear of the energy status of the Receiver, it is also possible to reconstruct the progressive stratification of his disharmonious condition and the continuing energy alteration of 5 Movements. Therefore it is possible to fully use the remarkable power of Shiatsu treatment, applying it according to the sequences of spontaneous self-healing activity of the Receiver’s Ki, preventing the processing overlap, in a well-intentioned manner but sometimes objectively arbitrary, to what the Receiver’s Ki is working on to restore their balance spontaneously. The aim of the report is therefore to briefly illustrate the general procedure outlined here in brief, through the display of case studies.

  • Prof. Claudio Corbellini, Expert in Acupuncture since 1976, First thesis in Neurology on Acupuncture in 1980, Coordinator for more than 10 years in the Advanced Course in acupuncture at the University of Pavia, Professor in numerous Specialty Schools and two elective Courses at the University of Pavia, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Budapest Group.

Title: Acupuncture: PNEI and beyond

Abstract. The balance of stress is the key to health. The Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunology in  energy acupuncture allowed us to find a common denominator between the different medical cultures, returning to a conception of galenic type, to a holistic vision of man, seen in a global equilibrium, maintained by humoral messages, which is in turn in balance with the world. During the participation, clinical cases will be presented. The approach based on the PNEI model, in the light of Quantum Physics, outlines a representation of reality as a unified whole, characterized by energy and information fields (entanglement).

 

  • Dr. Simona Vignali, Naturopath and Nutritionist, founder of the SIMA Integrated Modern School of Ayurveda and director of the Space SoloSalute of Milan. Author of the series Modern Manuals of Natural Health.

Title: Ayurveda: From Science to Knowledge.

Abstract: Ayurveda is a a systematic corpus of knowledge that originates from the ancient Indian wisdom. Thanks to a truly holistic vision, nowadays it is an extraordinary access key to an understanding of themselves, others, the environment and the dynamics of global health.

Title: Functional Integrated Naturopathy Paths

Abstract: Naturopathy, as a rational system, in the case of the Functional Integrated Naturopathy, gets results even more important for the prevention, the rebalancing and the maintenance of health. From the soil care to specific subjects, Functional Integrated Naturopathy often uses the lifestyle as a means of correction and recovery of well-being.

 

  • Dr. Settimio Grimaldi, Senior Researcher of CNR, Biophysicist.

Title: Electromagnetic transfer of information in Medicine.

Prof. Umberto Grieco,  National Research Council (C.N.R.), Professor of Integrative Techniques in critics vascular patients at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Specialized in Dermatology, Homeopathy, Homotossicology.

Title: Integrated Medicine and Spirituality.

 

  • Eng. Andrea Gadducci, Electronic Engineer specialized in Biomedical, Expert in Quantum-Biophysical methods, Co-Founder/Owner of Bio-t S.r.l. – Technologies for Life.

Title: Biophotons, Biocommunication and Quantum Medicine.

 

  • Eng. Serena Pani, Medical Engineer specialized in Robotics, Activities of Research & Development within the European Union and International Academic Projects, Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Bio-t S.r.l. – Technologies for Life.

Title: Consciousness, neurobiology and quantum mechanics.

Abstract. The partecipation aims to analyze and investigate the biological and quantum coherence, the connection between structure and consciousness, the connection between neurobiology, quantum mechanics and cybernetics.

 

  • Prof. Mara Tognetti Bordogna, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Director of the Master “Health Systems, Traditional and Complementary and Alternative Medicines” at the University of Milano-Bicocca,  Director of the “Observatory and Methods for Health”.

Title: Health Systems, Traditional and Complementary and Alternative Medicines.

Abstract. In recent years, empirical researches on the Italian welfare have attempted to document how and in relation to which variables, they are structured, the different models of regional welfare, in order to provide both a unifying theoretical framework, and to facilitate the comparison. The aim of this paper is to analyze if and how the regional welfare are inclusive of complementary medicine or not and whether there are specific peculiarities attributable to the different organizational models. In this essay will be provided the analysis of  the existence of similarities or differences in the paths of institutional recognition, in reference to the different regional health welfare and the different types of complementary medicines

 

  • Low. Laura Frattari, Expert in Health Legislation, Legal Advisor of the Italian Chiropractors Association (A.I.C.)

Title: Legal issues in health professions.

Abstract. Brief notes on the legal aspects related to health professions such as, for example, the informed consent, the processing of sensitive data, the medical act between law and jurisprudence. Examples of case studies and form prepared for the operators.

 

  • Dr. Viviana Rosati, Sense Organs Department – Sapienza University of Rome, Teacher of the Degree Course in Physiotherapy, University of Rome La Sapienza, Director of the Center for Integrated Rehabilitation of Person (C.R.I.P.E.), Doctor of Science in Health Professions and Rehabilitation, Osteopath member of the R.O.I., PhD in Clinical / Experimental Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Title: Contribution of Osteopathy in the treatment of migraine: an experimental study.

Abstract. As you know, migraine is a very common disease. A migraine attack can lead to a temporary disability and, thus, to a significant impact on quality life of sufferers. In general headaches, as shown by some studies, result from the stimulation of nociceptive polymodal multiple endings, present in the head of mechanical, thermal and chemical nature. In the suffering patient  in essence, a complex dysfunction of neuroreceptor and neurotransmitter systems (trigemino-vascular irregularity), an endorfinergic and encefalinergic deficit exists. The main treatment for this condition has always been based on drugs, even if the input of chemical molecules always causes side effects; sometimes headache can be linked just to the excessive use of drugs. Thus, some of the efforts are devoted to the search of alternative ways to cure headache. The purpose of the study presented here, is to verify the effectiveness of an osteopathic treatment in subjects suffering from migraine with or without aura, who have not taken drugs for prophylaxis. The aim of osteopathic treatment is to reduce the frequency, duration and intensity of pain and crisis, through techniques that restore the physiological circulatory condition.

 

  • Vito Adragna D.O. mROI, Responsible for the Research Department of the Research Center of Traditional Osteopathy (CSOT-Rome), Secretary of the Research Commission of the Register of Osteopaths of Italy (R.O.I.)

Title: Osteopathic Treatment of pivots: a study on the effectiveness in regulating tonic-postural activity assessed by statokinesigrafic compared examination. Randomized controlled trial

Abstract. In a vision of the human body in constant “fight” against the force of gravity through continuous adjustments, the identification of certain “pin zones”, for the proper functioning of the body, assumes a significant importance for osteopaths and for all therapists who are going to improve this operation. From this originates, starting from the studies of Dr. J.M. Littlejohn, the consideration towards the pivot, their relationship with the correct physiology (for the maintenance of homeostasis) and the treatment of their possible dysfunctions. The pivots considered in this work, as in the studies of A. Ceccaldi and J.F. Favre, are represented by vertebral pivots like C2, C5, D4, D9 and L3 and ligaments such as the astragalus-calcaneal ligament, the cruciate ligaments of the knee, the ileo-lumbar-sacral ligaments and the sterno-cost-clavicular ligaments. Our study analyzes all the pivot integrated into the biomechanics and neurophysiology of man and aims to verify the OMT’s (Osteopathyc Manipulative Treatment) effectiveness of the pivot on physiological responses of the body healthy by a statokinesigrafic (SKG) check of the center of pressure of the body (CoP). Healthy subjects are used in order to validate the hypothesis (H1) that the OMT pivot has a positive effectiveness on the regulation of Tonic-Postural Activity. The occurrence of this hypothesis would demonstrate that the application of this type of treatment can actually lead to a reduction in the expenditure of energy required to reach and maintain a constant homeostatic balance of the organism. It is a method that let to determine the relationship between structure and function, which always takes place in a global manner, through three links (fluidic, mechanical and neurological), which represent the three faces of man’s ability “homeostasis”.

Title: Osteopathic manipulative treatment and chronic tension headache: outcome research

Abstract. This study arises from the need to investigate the validity of osteopathic treatment in patients with chronic tension headache, a disease that afflicts only in Italy, about 2.6 million people (source Eurisko, Nov.1999), a social disease that makes lose more than two hundred million hours of work per year and that affects the quality of life of those affected. Stevens MB, in an article published in 1993 on “American Family Physician”, regretted because in a research on tension headache had not spoken also of osteopathic treatment and how in the medical literature there were articles about it, making notice that it would be a good area to be investigated (Baird). In September 2001, on the “Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics”, Bronfort G. and collaborators published a study on the effectiveness of spinal manipulation in patients with chronic tension headache. In 2006 on the journal “Headache”, Anderson RE and Seniscal C presented a study on osteopathic treatment associated with relaxation exercises at home, using the diary of headache as the only benchmark to get statistical data. In 2007 Smitherman TA, Nicholson RA and Penzien DB, always in the journal “Headache”, proposed a comparison between patients submitted only to osteopathic treatment and others who were also given stretching exercises to do at home. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of OMT in patients with chronic tension headache as therapeutic support coadjuvant to pharmacological treatment.

 

  • Dr. Elena Carbone, Department of Neuroscience – University of Parma, Psychologist and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapist, EMDR Trainer.

Title: The action of negative oxygen ions (NAI). A review on the evidence of their effects.

Abstract. Ions’ effects on health have been highlighted by biometeorology that showed how thanks to warm and dry winds (Scirocco, Sant Anne and Foehn) mood disorders, suicide, industrial accidents and crimes increase. In these winds, positive ions of oxygen are more than the negative ones. The atmospheric electricity (the different concentration of positive and negative ions of oxygen in the air in a given environment) influences organisms in many aspects: biological, physiological, neurological, and behavioral (Soyka and Edmonds, 1991). In country air, distribution of negative ions (Negative Air Ions – NAI) varies between 2000-4000 per cm3, exceeds 100000 at Yosemite waterfalls or decreases dramatically (below 100 per cm3) in city during peak hours. These levels may change due to natural factors (levels of radiation, UVA) or human environment (industrial pollution). The highest concentration of NAI occurs where there is water in motion: near waterfalls, before, during and after a storm and in rainy seasons. The worst ratio occurs in closed rooms with no windows or in moving vehicles. NAI develop as a result of Lenard or Simpson effect. Despite nearly a third of the population seems particularly sensitive to NAI, scientific attention on these effects has been lacking. The attempt to reproduce better air quality culminated with the first Chizhevsky apparatus for artificial ionization, used especially in Russia since 1930. Despite the evidence of the need of the NAI for vital functions and the use of the generators in pharmaceutical, biological, genetic and food industries, the therapeutic application of the NAI didn’t spread accordingly. Skepticism often derives from the inability to explain the effects in terms of traditional concepts of biochemistry and physiology, so that we have to wait the 1992 to learn that their action is related to free radicals (Goldstein, 2002). A second and perhaps more compelling source of evidence of the impact of NAI comes from laboratory studies that have shown that they affect growth, metabolism and immune response in mammals.

 

  • Dr. Barbara Brignoli, Dr. Rosangela Crespolini, Alzheimer Daytime Center Arioli-Dolci, Treviolo, Cooperative Servire

Title: Effects of Shiatsu treatments on perceived pain and behavior disorders in elderly people with dementia

Abstract. The Shiatsu technique is part of complementary medicine and, like acupuncture, involves the use of fingers and hands’ pressure and of the extension of the muscles along the points of traditional Chinese medicine. A recent review highlights Shiatsu effectiveness in decreasing post-operative nausea and pain and, to a lesser extent, in reducing stress, in mitigating anxiety and relieving respiratory disorders. Also in the context of dementia, recent studies have highlighted the effectiveness of Shiatsu interventions in decreasing agitated and aggressive behaviors and improving sleep. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Shiatsu effects on perceived pain and behavior’s disorders (BPSD) in three elderly people suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, who attend daily the Alzheimer’s Daytime Center.

 

  • Dr. Claudia De Rosa,  International Teacher Homeopathic Medicine, Founder and Director of International Education Vis Vitalis Intl

Title: Dynamic Pharmacy: energy characteristics of drugs and natural remedies.

Abstract. Too often it is stated in a simplistic way that homeopathic treatment is able to assist and complement conventional treatment. This is partly true, but it is important not to underestimate any possible actions, reactions and interactions between the “energy” treatment of the natural remedy and the “physiological” one of conventional drug. Considering and evaluating the energetic qualities of drugs, we will be able to understand how a particular drug can affect the state of disequilibrium and the susceptibility of the individual and thus select the most appropriate treatment.

 

  • Dr. David Pomarici,  Doctor of Physiotherapy, Osteopath D.O., Scientific Director of the School Osteopomarici, Dr. Arcangelo De Falco, Doctor of Physiotherapy, Osteopath D.O., Professor of the School Osteopomarici

Title: Instrumental verification with Formetric Spinometry of the biomechanical responses in patients treated with osteopathic manual therapy.

Abstract. Osteopathy, the one that our teachers taught us and that they themselves have learned for years by generations of American and European Osteopaths, presents concepts of extraordinary insight that nowadays can be re-explained thanks to the advent of modern clinical instruments. The objective of this work is to demonstrate how, in the era of evidence-based medicine, even Osteopathic Medicine of our Millennium learns to use the new language of Scientific Methodology to be validated and meet the requirements of the public Authorities, in order to finally receive the rightful place in Europe and in the World. It will be presented a new system of postural analysis, the Formetric Spinometry, a technique for surface detecting of the back that allows us to get to the spine in a three-dimensional, non-invasive way and to objectify the results achieved, the techniques that we use and our diagnostic hypotheses, removing definitely the risk of following the routes of empiricism and the absence of objective data.

 

  • Dr. Fabio Colonnello, Physiotherapist and Osteopath D.O.

Title: The shape of bones reveals our ways of being and acting. Psycho-behavioral method GDS.

Abstract. Godelieve Denys-Struyf said: The GDS method is a methodology of both prevention and therapeutic approach, which is interested in the relationship between the biomechanics and behavior. Derived from osteopathy and muscle chains, strong of the interaction with the Traditional Chinese Medicine, this method is taught to those who want to have a powerful tool for evaluation and treatment, and also to those who want to improve their body awareness. Through first hand experiences, the GDS training offers a method of observation, measurements, testing, analysis and strict interpretations, as well as a wide range of therapeutic techniques. The method aims, through innovative experiences, an awareness of their bodies and their behavior, thus stimulating creativity in the construction of their own and others’ well-being.

 

  • Dr. Giovanni Di Matteo, Doctor of Physiotherapy, Osteopath D.O., Consultant FIPAV sector National Teams, Specialization in Global Postural Re-education

Title: Osteopathy and Traditional Medicine: complementarity and integration from the evaluation to the operational approach.

Abstract. The intervention proposes a number of objectives: first of all, create information about the osteopathic approach and the philosophy that guides it; highlight and snatch the junction and complementarity points with Traditional Medicine, emphasizing the mutual useful interaction and exceeding unjustified conflicts. The aim is to create an integrated and systemic approach to the “PERSON” and causal thinking and overall assessment become indisputable fulcrums in this context. Thanks to scientific evidences collected and kindly provided to me by AIOT and EBOM, I’m going to present two works that attest to the improvements in terms of outcome in therapeutic pathways with joint approach. Another purpose of this intervention is to provide an overview of the operational realities existing in the national territory that exploit this potential interaction-integration and aims to provide points of reflection on the improvement of efficiency and effectiveness in hospital wards in which such complementarity already coexists.

 

  • Dr. Alessio D’Andrea, Osteopath, Posturologist, Technician of Motor Sports Activities and Academic from the Theatine Academy of Sciences Inc.

Title: Balance and method for a healthy body: The simplicity of a gesture revives a new heart.

Abstract. Theory and Practice on the stimulation of the Hypothalamic Limbic System, postural psycho-physical reset, mind, posture, Bioenergetics, the use of the stimulation of resonant points highlighted by Auric Spiral reported on our ear, creates a map made of landmarks points that allow the rebalancing of our body system. It can be noticed that this practice of the Hypothalamic Stimulation Limbic System Technique (SSLI) is easy to apply and understand, for specialists in the field and for individuals who have the desire to self-healing. Proven in Medical Ophthalmology (optimization of Visus Correct), Dental (Normalization of the state prognatico), Medical-Surgical pre and post-operative aimed exclusively at the physical and psychological recovery of the doctor between a surgery and the other, Posturological (highlight of the tonic postural state with Porobadometric test). You arrive at getting a reset of the postural system, which highlights the dysfunctional attitude previously altered, from the psychological, physical, postural aspect, giving rise to the formation of known symptoms. The goal of the research is to inform the community on the disciplines that give a contribution to the improvement of our lives, create research studies, cooperation with doctors and various practioners to demonstrate that these disciplines are worthy of attention, trying to form a culture among our community and still provide a service to those who already practice and believe in Complementary Medicine. In Italy these disciplines aren’t yet recognized by the NHS but all over the world alternative therapies have become an important aid for the health system. For this reason, Dr. D’Andrea contributed to the presentation of a ODG 4274-A about the opportunity to start the most appropriate process for a legal definition of Osteopathy received by the Minister of Health on 28/09/2011 and now under revision of the Senate of the Italian Republic. The publication of the book “Balance and Method for a healthy body” is intended to create an information network that gives visibility to these disciplines, performed by practioners who believe and want to make their professionalism be recognized by the Italian state giving to the Community, that already use these methods, the right protection and the right information.

 

  • Joshua Gillis, Natural Therapy Specialist (New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics

Title: Neuro-motor-sensory Integration. Embrace our evolutionary past and our instinctive movement patterns for a multi-dimensional future.

Abstract. In history as in modern times, the eastern philosophies have always been accompanied by some type of ‘Martial Art’ form. Where by extreme coordination and concentration through physical activities has aided in forming and fine tuning the body-emotions-mind for opening ones spiritual awareness. Where by fine tuning our instinctual movement patterns, ‘The Instinctual Posture’, we free and open our minds ‘Central Nervous System’ for higher learning, behavior and to our true essence. Joshua will also cover Postural Movement patterns as a unifying perspective to energetic-physical-mental/emotional therapies.

 

  • Dr. Laura Calvillo, Biologist, PhD in cardiovascular pharmacology, Head of the Unit for in vivo testing of the cardiovascular genetics laboratory of the Italian Auxological Institute

Title: The holistic view applied: the Gautama Multiversity.

Abstract. The association Gautama is a Multiversity operating for more than 25 years in the territory of the province of Varese, promoting a holistic view of man, in which well-being is read on the integration between physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects. In our experience, the synergy between the body mediation counseling techniques and meditation provides ample opportunities for the construction of an effective psychophysical wellbeing, and for the development of individual potential and talents and for the expansion of personal mental maps. Our residential programs and monthly groups are addressed to problems of dependence (to drugs, alcohol, drugs, food, sex, work, etc.), issues related to sexuality and those related to trauma that occurred in early childhood until adolescence. The study and observation of mental and emotional processes have ample space also in function of a desire for personal growth and expansion of awareness, not necessarily tied to a problem to be solved. There are six main areas at the base of our studies and our work with people: Bioenergetics of A. Lowen and therapy of W. Reich, Primal Therapy based on the findings of A. Janov, Humaniversity Therapy based on the findings and experiences of D. Yuson-Sanchez, meditations designed by Osho and tantric traditions, Breathwork, Naturopathy and Ayurveda. We also experience the effects of subtle energies on the transformation and growth of the person: Reiki, Aurasoma, Shamanic Traditions and AcuEnergetics are tried and used both as a support in the programs and as indipendent interventions. We propose as a gym of ideas and experimentation for all those researchers interested in exploring human and biological potential of Man. The program that most of all describes the multidisciplinary approach typical of our work is the Tourist Program, a 15-day intensive and personalized labor in which the person is accompanied at all times of the day by the operators most suited to face the particular individual needs that emerge.

 

  • Dr. Elena Fossati, Dr. in Techniques of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Master in “Health Systems, traditional and Complementary and Alternative Medicines“, Dance Movement Therapist APID

Title: “The space of health”: places of well-being and places of discomfort. Person-Centered Medicine.

Abstract. The analysis of the systems for health detects a rise of non Complementary and Alternative Medicines by patients increasingly aware in search of a sustainable, transparent, person-centered medicine. The poster presents the project of an “area of health” highlighting the importance of place, physical space for the person care and listening, offering a vision of “well-being” of an individual not only correlated with medical intervention, whether it is preventive, curative or rehabilitative. A medical paradigm, increasingly common, emerges, as claimed by Harald Walach, which tends to regard the disease as the result of a disharmony between “body and soul” of the person. What emerges is therefore the concept of health as a right that must be guaranteed to every human being under the freedom of care enshrined in the Italian Constitution (art. 32). Nowadays, the health protection of the population and the sustainability of treatment should always more be based on the centrality of the patient: in the choice of care, attention of the institutions to the social need of “humanization of medicine”, a “person-centered medicine” (Roberti Di Sarsina P. 2012). This new medical paradigm takes into account the totality of the human being, the unity of the person, who should be treated in appropriate places and spaces. The objective of the poster is to analyze the organizational arrangements, the structure, the integration of managerial and financial issues with those of clinical care, the relational aspect and biomedicine interaction and traditional and  complementary and alternative medicine, in a view of a system for the health. The purpose of the project is to create a “space for health” person-centered, for a sustainable, transparent and honest medicine to the left of each individual citizen. If we take care of the patient in a holistic sense, in a view of a person-centered medicine, we must also talk about spaces that accommodate the person, the patient, which contribute to the generation of health or illness. The architecture of well-being takes its origin from the holistic vision, a complete vision of reality, that considers man as a whole and that the whole is more than the sum of the parts that make the man. Traditional and complementary and alternative medicine takes into consideration even the environment, living and care spaces, assuming that health, quality of life of the patient, the customer go beyond the disease to be treated, the “disease” to prevent; therapy, care, education interventions are based on the person in his everyday life. This should apply to the organization of any health center / system. The project for the creation of a “Space for Health” is private, because currently there is no possibility to create a work like this in public. Since there isn’t this condition in the public, my reflection concerns the ability to interact with it by ensuring access to complementary and alternative medicine to citizens: complementary and alternative medicine have a very low social cost and at a public level they can help reduce health care costs. The engine that drives an initiative such as the realization of “a space for health” isn’t just the economic aspect, although these services have a cost and must be fairly remunerated, but is the involvement of the patient within of his path of care and life. Health is a right and as such it is the basis of all other fundamental rights which belong to the people. This principle assigns to states and their joints tasks that go well beyond the simple management of a health system. They should be responsible for identifying and seeking, through appropriate alliances, to modify those factors that negatively affect the collective health while promoting favorable ones. In this context, health is considered more a means than a purpose, and can be defined as a resource for everyday life that allows people to lead a productive life at an individual, social and economic level.

 

  • Dr. Maria Luisa Vocca, Sinologist, Qigong Practitioner, Head of the Association NeiDao – The Inner Path, Expert of Qigong and energy healing Techniques

Title: Qigong and Health: the natural virtues that make the individual protagonist of his health and longevity.

Abstract. According to the physiological energy theories at the base of Traditional Chinese Medicine, based on the close correlation between spirit and body, a physical, respiratory and mental practice has been developed, which, strengthening healthy body and taking care of the sick one, helps the circulation of energy life in us, just through the cooperation of body, breath and mind. Qigong is the art of cultivating Qi, the vital energy, increase it, strengthen it and refine it through external and spiritual technical: breathing, posture and movement, mental concentration and meditation. The set of his techniques was designed and developed through the millennia in order to promote and maintain health, give longevity, strength and knowledge, in view of a realization also spiritual. The most significant purpose of Qigong, however, in the context of health, was already thousands of years ago the one described in the Chinese Taoist school, “Chang sheng bu lao” which literally means: “To live a long time without getting old” and nowadays there is a huge amount of scientific research showing that Qigong can be really valuable to restore and improve health.

 

  • Dr. Sabatino Meletani, Specialist in Neuropsychiatry and professor in Bio-Cybernetics Medicine

Title: Introduction and definition of EAVI and Methods of Adjusting Bioelectronics.

Abstract. The Biocybernetic Instrumental Medicine (sometimes called Bioenergetic Medicine or Bioelectronic Adjusting), developed in the early fifties in Germany thanks to medical groups to holistic orientation (Homeopaths, Acupuncturists and Homotoxicologists), who sought new paths in medicine. Among them, Dr. Reinhold Voll (1909-1989) founded the International School of EAV (Electroacupuncture according to Voll). From this, in the following decades, other branches of Instrumental Biocybernetics have been developed, as the Bioresonance therapy called MORA and the Test of Dermal Vegetative Reflection according to Schimmel (so-called VEGA-test). The EAV is a synthesis of the Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, Western Clinical Medicine, Homeopathic, Homotoxicologic and Isopathic pharmacology. The method’s essence consists in verifying, using the tip of measurement of an electronic instrument, the bioelectric state of Acupuncture points, in addition to new points and Meridians discovered by Voll and by other researchers. The bioelectrical situation, given by the values of skin resistance, is highlighted on a dedicated dial. The project will analyze in detail the contributions that the EAV gave to medicine.

 

  • Dr. Nicola Damati, Dentist, Dr. Sabatino Meletani, Specialist in Neuropsychiatry and professor in Bio-Cybernetics Medicine

Title: The importance of diagnosis and subsequent reclamation of dental Foci in drug resistant diseases. Two cases diagnosed and solved by means of EAVI (Integrated Electro-acupuncture according to Voll).

Abstract. The intervention includes the analysis of two case reports. The first case concerns a man with severe dizzy syndrome and inability to walk unaided for multiple cerebral demyelinating lesions, diagnosed as “suspected Multiple Sclerosis.” The technique led to a complete remission of symptoms after removal of dental problems (multiple foci and intoxication for dental materials), diet therapy and specific mesenchymal drainage with nosodes and homotoxicological therapy. The second case concerns a woman with bilateral multiple handheld warts, relapsing for years despite various conventional therapies and interventions of cryotherapy. Even in this case was found the complete regression of warts after defocusing decay, metal detoxification, Homotoxicologic therapy and diet therapy.

 

  • Dr. Vincenzo Primitivo, Surgeon, Scientific Coordinator of the International Institute Peter Mandel for Italy in collaboration with Cromopharma Partners Esogetics, Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine ISCUB – Cromopuncture section of Lecce

Title: DEPT: an objective and reproducible diagnosis at the service of Holistic Medicine.

Abstract. A modern medical study nowadays can not disregard from the integration with a diagnosis and a holistic therapy that is a vision that includes the clinical disease within a broader context and not only confined to the perimeter of the diseased organ. The progress of quantum physics today enable us to understand mechanisms once justified only by the empirical experience; in a holographic vision of the human body, the organ afflicted with the disease can’t be separated from the rest of the organic districts and its pathology can be understood only in the context of a disease enlarged to the whole individual. In our clinical practice an “enlarged” diagnosis of pathology performs a fundamental role; this has the aim to understand which areas of the patient, weakening from a functional point of view, trigger a chain of events that culminate with the same pathology. An important help, in addition to a fatal and detailed anamnesis, is provided by the Energy Diagnosis of Terminal Points or Kirlian Diagnosis.

 

  • Dr. Ivan Dus, Surgeon Specialist in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology Behavioral Medicine Psychotherapy, Specialist in Orthognatodontic and Cranio-facial Orthopedics, Faculty at the University of Loma Linda California: Teaching of neuromuscular behavioral physiology

Title: Muscle-tension Headache: cognitive treatment by means of electromyographic biofeedback associated to hydration with alkaline ionized water.

Abstract. The condition of metabolic tissue acidosis associated mainly to our feeding, adds up to a condition of acidosis due to a state of muscle contraction that creates a state of micro-hypoxia or micro-anoxia, favors an anaerobic metabolism and consequently further acidification at the tissue level. The state of dehydration worsens significantly the acidification. The restoration of the microcirculation is achieved by biofeedback that brings the cognitive muscle relaxation, accompanied by hydration obtained through the intake of alkaline ionized water which, thanks to its property of microclasterizzazione, is able to moisturize six times more than ordinary water besides other important benefits, such as: high reductive antioxidant power and the ability to produce bicarbonates at the gastric level ranging to restore the system of alkaline buffers of our body.

 

  • Dr. Eugenio Luigi Iorio, PhD, International Observatory of Oxidative Stress (Salerno)

Title: Modulate oxygen consumption: the cutting edge of modern nutraceutics.

Abstract. The final biological effect of oxygen on cellular functions depends to a large extent by the manner in which it accepts reducing equivalents (free or bound electrons in the form of hydrogen atoms) extracted by the various products of terminal metabolism (glycidic, lipid, and proteic). In fact, the reactions of bioelectronic transfer lead, through the mitochondrial respiratory chain, to the production of the chemical energy required to all vital phenomena, while the monoelectronic extractions generate reactive chemical species (reactive oxygen species, ROS) whose final effects can also be disastrous for the organism. Based on these pathophysiological conditions, the modern nutraceutics is nowadays increasingly oriented towards the use of natural preparations, such as Deutrosulfazyme (Cellfood), which are proving to possess the unique property of modulating the oxygen consumption according to the cellular demand, so to improve the aerobic metabolism without running the risk of an exuberant production of ROS.

 

  • Prof. Bruno Boccioli, Lecturer at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and University G. D’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara

Title: Bioimpedance and Bioresonance in therapy and diagnosis.

Abstract. The intervention has the purpose to illustrate the characterization of energetic stimuli in allopathic techniques, that is guidelines for preparing an efficient and effective therapeutic protocol. The energetic stimulus in bio-stimulation represent a new approach, supported by scientific evidence, in a context of complementary and alternative medicine techniques. Moreover, the avail of basic mathematical modeling of biological systems in vivo to determine the impedance of the biological substrates will allow to use the Bio-resonance in both diagnosis (an instrumental, objective and totally non-invasive diagnosis based on the electro-physics response of biological systems in vivo), and in therapy. This application allows you to establish therapeutic protocols designed to bring about an adequate remodulation at an electro-physical level in the case of cellular electrochemical imbalance with the use of microcurrents.