Education and Academic Qualifications

He completed the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He specialized in “KAT” General Prefectural Hospital at Department of Physics and Medical Rehabilitation Center and in a recognized center in the United Kingdom (England), in Spinal Cord Injury (Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry (RJAH). He is certified by the European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and the Greek Medical Acupuncture Society. He has been a Doping Control Physician (National Council for Combating Doping (E.S.K.A.N.).

Professional Experience

In 2008 he was the Senior House Officer in Spinal Cord Injury Center, in Oswestry of United Kingdom (England). Between 2010-2012 he worked as a physiatrist in the Rehabilitation Centre “Philoctetes”, Athens, Greece, and from 2012 he is Director of D.TH.K.A. “YGEIA”, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Also, since 2010 he keeps a private practice of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New Eritrea of Attica.

Member of the following Scientific – Professional Bodies

• Greek Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
• European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
• Greek Medical Acupuncture Society
• Greek Society for Biomedical Research
• Doping Control Association samplers Greece

Research Interests

• Participation in the following research project:
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Treating Spasticity
• Treating bedsores
• Heterotopic Ossification
• Electrodiagnostics
• Gait Analysis

Languages: Greek, English

E manaosvan@hotmail.com

Medical Services

• Diseases Spine
• Musculoskeletal Disorders and Injuries
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Treating Sports Injuries
• Medical Acupuncture

MEDICAL ACUPUNCTURE

AN ANCIENT HEALING SYSTEM IN THE SERVICE OF MODERN MEDICINE

Acupuncture is one of the most ancient healing techniques used on the planet earth and its birth place is China. Already since 2600 BC, the basic theories on which acupuncture is based have been recorded, as well as the points of acupuncture, the type of needles and their use. The unaltered course of this therapeutic system over the centuries, as well as the complicated and comprehensive reports for specific diseases, contributed to its spread in the west.

More and more often, acupuncture is reflected in the developed western societies, not only in the sufferers but also in the circles of the scientific community. 64% of the US Medical Universities(Cornell, John Hopkins, UCLA, Maryland) include acupuncture in their educational program. In the UK acupuncture services are provided at the 34% of the Medical Centers, at the 84% of the chronic pain practice offices and at the 40% of general practitioners. Similar percentages are calculated in Germany, Italy, Austria, Norway, Sweden. Following a national survey conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine(1993) which found that the 34% of Americans have successfully achieved at least one unconventional treatment, it was suggested that these treatments, with predominant the acupuncture, should not be considered as “alternative medicine” but as complementary medicine. The National Health Council of the United States of America, based on 5000 medical researches related to acupuncture with the help of neurophysiology and neuropharmacology, made the recording of the preconditions for practicing acupuncture in medicine(indication, contradictions, possible side-effects) as well as in the promotion of research on acupuncture.