California Senate Bill SB-577, effective January 1, 2003, enables complementary and alternative health practitioners to provide and advertise their services legally, according to certain rules of compliance specified in the legislation. Section 2053.6 of the California Business and Professions Code requires the following disclosures:
Disclosure to the client in plain, written language:
a. that the practitioner is not a licensed physician;
b. that the treatment is a complementary or alternative healing modality and not licensed by the state;
c. the nature of the service to be provided and the theory of treatment upon which the services are based; and
d. the practitioner’s education and other training, experience, and other qualifications regarding the services to be provided.
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DISCLOSURE A (the practitioner is NOT a licensed physician):
I understand that Cynthia Fatura is not a licensed physician in California and does not possess a license from the state of California.
DISCLOSURE B (the treatment is a complementary or alternative healing modality and not licensed by the state):
I also understand that Medical Qigong is a form of complementary and alternative medicine not licensed by the state of California. In practicing complementary and alternative medicine, Cynthia Fatura seeks to support rather than replace the care of your existing physician, therapist, or acupuncturist.
DISCLOSURE C (the nature of the service to be provided and the theory of treatment upon which the services are based):
Cynthia Fatura provides Medical Qigong treatments and exercises designed to assist clients in maintaining physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Medical Qigong, one of the four main branches of Chinese Medicine, is a system of health care that recognizes the root causes of symptoms or disease and treats the client as a whole person. Practiced as an adjunct to Western medicine, Medical Qigong addresses the energetic imbalances or blockages that contribute to illness. Medical Qigong is not a panacea but a healing modality that has been practiced in China for over 2,000 years.
DISCLOSURE D (the practitioner’s education and other training, experience, and other qualifications regarding the services to be provided):
Cynthia Fatura's professional degrees, training, experience, credentials and qualifications include the following:
* Michigan State University - Bachelor of Science: Biology - 1992
* Red Cross - Certification: Basic Life Support - 2023
* Red Thread Institute - Certification: Level Three Medical Qigong - 2023
* Multiple Organizations Including: All is Well Ventures, Inc.; Juko-Kai International / Shaolin Chung-Kuo Ch’uan-Shu Association; Schucker Martial Arts Association; Shingitai Dojo; Tokoshi Martial Arts Federation; United States Martial Arts Association - Certification / Rank: Qigong / Taiji Instructor Beginning in 1997
Cynthia Fatura has been practicing Medical Qigong since 2015. Currently, she has passed the exams for the first three year-long certifications. This means she has:
* 420 hours of hands-on instruction
* 105 hours of clinical examinations including:
- oral exams
- demonstration of treatment techniques
- demonstration / explanation (technique, when to use, and when / how to modify)
of the "homework" given to clients based on their unique energetic patterns:
[] acupressure self-massage
[] exercises
[] meditations and
[] tones
- 8 examination demonstrations of actual full treatments with real clients
(ensuring techniques appropriate to the client's energetic patterns are applied with efficacy and safety);
* 3 written exams (one for each certification level);
* college-level anatomy and physiology courses;
* Traditional Chinese Medicine theory courses (separate from MQ instruction);
* Red Cross Certified Basic Life Support training; and
* oodles of independent client hours
Cynthia Fatura's primary instructor is a Doctor of Medical Qigong (China), Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (United States), Dàoshi 道士 (ordained Daoist), and licensed physician in both the United States and China.
Cynthia Fatura has also functioned as a Teacher Assistant for a cohort for the first two certification programs, so, in addition to the requirements listed above, she has repeated most of the above credentials twice (once as student and once as Teacher Assistant).