Veterinarians are cordially invited to participate in a two-day workshop of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine potpourri.

From food therapy to herbal treatments to tui-na practice, there will be something for everyone from beginners to advanced practitioners.

Dr. Rimar will also discuss incorporating various modalities of treatment such as gold implantation, and aqua-acupuncture including using the animals own blood for treatment. The afternoons will be hands-on labs, treating animals in group sessions.  
 

Approved for 12 IVAS CE Credits

Day One: Morning

Food Therapy: Our food shall be our medicine. We will discuss how to make a clinical difference using food therapy as the primary or adjunctive therapy for our patients. Food therapy for pediatric to geriatric, and some commonly seen chronic diseases of Heart and Kidney as well. Do you have some patients that are difficult to medicate? No problem, learn how to make therapeutic cookies to treat our 4-legged friends.

Day One: Afternoon

We will have group-based and hands-on case examples using multiple TCVM modalities of treatment. These will include neurological paralysis, Fibro Cartilaginous Emboli, Cancer, Congestive Heart Failure, chronic Kidney failure and behavioural problems.

Day Two: Morning

Herbal Therapy: Energetics, Taste and Temperature: New to Herbal medicine? No problem, learn how to unlock the herbal code.

How to start your Herbal Pharmacy: Nervous about starting your herbal practice? Well, here's how. We will discuss how to start your herbal pharmacy and some commonly used formulas, as well as the “must-haves” of practice.

How to treat behavioral disorders using TCVM: Drugs not working quite like you planned? We will discuss how pattern diagnosis, acupuncture and herbal medicine can help rebalance the crazy to make a happy home.

Day Two: Afternoon

Needle Techniques: From dry needle to electroacupuncture to aqua-acupuncture (including homeopathic injections, blood and gold implantation) as well as moxibustion; multiple modalities of TCVM treatments to best fit your patient’s needs.

Tui-na: This will be a group-based hands-on lab to learn and practice basic Tui Na techniques. Cases will include - Agility dog (multiple issues), wobbler’s, hip dysplasia, spondilosis, musculoskeletal and possibly Cat - arthritis.

Registration Fees:

• Earlybird (by Feb 11): $495 +HST ($450 if you register for our general session as well) 
• Regular (by Feb 28): $520 +HST ($475 if you register for our general session as well)
• Late (after Feb 28): $615 +HST ($560 if you register for our general session as well)

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About Tiffany Rimar, DVM, CVA, CVCH, CVFTH, CVTN, CCRT (pending)  

COMS is very proud to introduce Dr. Tiffany Rimar, an internationally renowned author and lecturer whose approach to integrative Veterinary medicine is inspiring.

Dr. Rimar received her Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Biology from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington in 1998, and her DVM from Ross University, West Indies in 2005. She has been studying and practicing TCVM since 1998 and was awarded certification in 2005 by the Chi-Institute and the China National Society of TCVM.

She was the first ever intern in TCVM in the U.S. at the University of Florida and worked closely with Dr. Shen Huisheng Xie for two years, helping teach veterinarians and veterinary students alike, as well as editing several TCVM textbooks. Dr. Rimar is published in numerous journals, Chinese Veterinary Herbology textbooks, and is soon to be published in Practical TCVM, an internal medicine textbook.

She teaches basic acupuncture principles and techniques and advanced techniques and labs, at the Chi Institute for large and small animal classes, as well as food therapy, tui-na and technician courses. Dr. Rimar is also an associate editor, and is on the editorial board for the American Journal of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine and has lectured in the US and China on TCVM principles and acupuncture techniques. She currently works at a fully integrative small animal practice in Florida, with special interests in cancer therapy and neurological disorders.