- Expanding the Scope of Manual Medicine Through Research, Academic Exchange, and Healthcare Coverage: A Summary of Two International Conferences
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Seung Min Kathy Lee, Su-Bin Han, Boyd Buser, Kendi Hensel, Brian Kim, William Mayo, Nicola Robinson, Byung-Cheul Shin, Daniel Williams, Joon-Shik Shin, Me-riong Kim, In-Hyuk Ha, Jinho Lee, Lawrence Prokop
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Perspect Integr Med. 2022;1(1):10-16. Published online September 22, 2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.56986/pim.2022.09.003
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- In Korea, Chuna was officially included in the Korean national health insurance (NHI) system in 2019. In the US, osteopathic manipulative treatment has been part of conventional healthcare since 1966. Since there are few countries that provide manual therapy in mainstream healthcare, academic exchange between experts in Chuna therapy on an international stage is essential; to date there has been a conference in 2018 and 2019, both of which were held in Korea. This review presents a summary of these conference proceedings. There were 13 keynote speakers including doctors of Korean medicine, osteopathic physicians, and policymakers. In the 1st conference, seven speakers shared their knowledge on the history of Chuna, policies, and the current body of evidence for using Chuna and osteopathic manipulative treatment of various conditions. In the following year, six speakers also included novel Chuna techniques, similarities and differences, and explored the possibilities for collaborations moving forward. Previous to these two international conferences, the last national conference was held in Korea in 2008. The timing of these two international conferences has proved significant due to the inclusion of Chuna in Korean national health insurance in 2019, and helped to provide guidance in expanding the scope of manual medicine.
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