Kajsa Landgren Licentiate

Kajsa Landgren with Professor Inger Hallström, supervisor to Kajsa.
On 27 November at. 13:00 shut the doors to the Auditorium 1 of the School of Nursing, Health Sciences Center, located in Lund. There were about 50 people. Kajsa Landgren's family, colleagues, fellow students, friends and colleagues 9 pc from the Swedish Acupuncture Association. The examination board for Kajsa Landgren licentieringsexamen were Christer Carlsson, anesthesiologists, and graduated in acupuncture, Annkristin Jansson, district nurse with a Ph.D. in Child Health and Kristina Thorngren-Jerneck, chief of pediatric health care Region Skåne. The subject Kajsa Landgren would licentiera in and defend their thesis was how to treat infant colic with acupuncture. This was based on a controlled and randomized study. The results indicated that infants acupuncture group cried and whining less than in the control group. The thesis showed that both the amount of screaming and intensity of crying were reduced in the infants who had colic and was treated with acupuncture. The value of this study is to help parents who feel powerless when they can not relieve their child's pain. Acupuncture is a valuable treatment to reduce children's suffering and stress in family life. For one and a half hour, questions were asked by the examining committee, which had been meticulously scoured Kajsa's surface. The questions were deep and thorough, although present in the auditorium asked questions that were answered by Kajsa. The hearings ended and everyone had to leave the room when examining committee would deliberate on their response. After 20 minutes of waiting, all of the examining committee to convey the good news that Kajsa Landgren's thesis had been accepted. She was both relieved and happy and now handed over flowers and gifts. From Swedish Acupuncture Association handed over an oil painting of the Chinese lion guarding the entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing, as you all know, the Forbidden City has been closed to outsiders for more than seven hundred years. The symbolism was that now we Westerners entered this forbidden city and taken note of the Chinese tax specifically TCM: even the immense world. They present were treated to coffee and cake. Later that evening, guests were invited to dinner by Hertzska villa in Helsingborg, where speeches and congratulations continued. The party ended with fireworks in the park that lit up the entire city.
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