Toshikatsu Yamamoto

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Toshikatsu Yamamoto ( Japanese 山 元 敏 勝 , Yamamoto Toshikatsu ) (born December 15, 1929 in Nichinan , Miyazaki Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese doctor known for his further development of acupuncture .

Toshikatsu Yamamoto graduated from Nippon Medical School ( Tokyo ) in 1956 with a degree in medicine . He then deepened his training in the fields of surgery, anesthesia and obstetrics in New Jersey, New York and Cologne, returned to his homeland in 1966 and founded a clinic. During the 1960s he developed the Yamamoto New Skull Acupuncture (YNSA) . In 1991 he received his doctorate from Miyazaki Medical School (since 2003 Miyazaki University Medical Faculty ) with a thesis on the effects of cranial acupuncture on motor and sensory disorders. In 1998 he founded the Yamamoto Rehabilitation Clinic in Miyazaki.

The YNSA method he developed is mainly used for pain disorders and neurological diseases. Yamamoto conducts courses in Miyazaki. For years he has been teaching in Germany as a guest lecturer in courses and at congresses of several medical societies for acupuncture .

bibliography

  • Yamamoto, Toshikatsu, Yamamoto New skull acupuncture. Kötzting / Bayer. Wald, ISBN 3-927344-66-4 (1985, 1991 & 2004).
  • Yamamoto, Toshikatsu, Yamamoto new scalp acupuncture, DVD-Video (2005).

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