Dry Needling Courses for PTs and ATCs.

Typical Schedule:

• Friday: Registration 12 pm; course 12:30 pm- 7:00 pm
• Saturday: 8 am to 6:30 pm
• Sunday: 8 am to 5 pm

• NOTE:  Technique chosen varies and is based which of the 5 reasons is being emphasized. 
• Needling STRATEGIES:
  • Superficial & deep dry needling.
  • Trigger point & myofascial dry needling. 
  •  Connective tissue & scar tissue strategies.
  •  Tenoperiosteal, musculotendinous, and ligamentous techniques.
  • Periosteal pecking and tendinopathic needling.
  • Segmental and supraspinal response strategies.
  • Introduction to autonomic needling.
• Lumbar-Thoracic-Cervical (prone):
  • Perpendicular and Angled Paraspinal & Laminar Approach (MSK Emphasis)
• Gluteus maximus, medius, minimus (side-lying) 
• Hip rotators (side-lying).
• Hamstrings insertion, and muscle bodies. 
• Hip adductors and knee extensors. 
• Trochanteric bursitis strategies. 
• Knee extensors, and ankle dorsi/plantar flexors. 
• Plantar fasciittis approach and turf-toe. 
• Upper cervical region and cervicoheadache strategies.
• Scapulo-thoracic approaches with emphasis on safety. 
• Posterior shoulder and periscapular musculature. 
• Elbow flexor and extensor groups.
• Introduction to reason 5 supraspinal response strategies.

DIN-1 is a 27-­hour live foundational education course, with additional 3 hours of pre-course instruction tailored for clinicians new to dry needling, as well as, advanced practitioners. Though essential for beginners, experienced practitioners will find the material informative and refreshing, helping to focus and simplify their practice while improving clinical reasoning. This 3-day course is supplemented with online modules carefully developed to maximize delivery of live, 90% hands-­‐on instruction. Practitioners will learn clinically reasoned, evidence-­‐ informed approaches of all major regions of the body, including the spine and both upper and lower quarters, for a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders.  This will provide the busy clinician the requisite instruction necessary to treat the most common conditions encountered in daily clinical practice without the need to take multiple courses. For a broader foundational understanding, participants will be instructed not only in needling superficially and deep within muscles (i.e., trigger point dry needling) but will also learn proper periosteal and connective tissue needling techniques for many conditions. Additionally, participants will learn how to integrate peripheral, spinal segmental and central needling approaches within a clinical reasoning framework. Course will also review current clinical guidelines and their inclusion or exclusion of needling as an intervention.  

1. Correctly identify and recall 10 contraindications and 10 precautions to the use of dry
2. Demonstrate safe DINS handling techniques and patient positioning for 5 axial skeletal
3. Demonstrate safe DINS handling techniques and patient positioning for 5 extremity
4. Correctly describe and explain the appropriate management of 5 adverse events that may occur in association with DINS
5. Orally explain correctly, the current theoretical neurophysiological mechanisms of dry needling from periphery to
6. Appropriate defend and explain the integration of DINS into the management of a given patient with a   neuromusculoskeletal conditions

At the conclusion of the course, students must demonstrate a minimum of 80% proficiency in the following course assessments to achieve a passing grade. The assessments will demonstrate that the student has met the listed objectives:

1. 1. Pass post-class written exam with 80% or greater.
   2. In-class technique safety demonstration and sign-off sheet.
   3. Required post-class survey.

• Normally:
  • $1118.00
• Early Bird:
  • $824.00
• Student, New Grad, Certified/Lic. Needler Discount:
  • $594.00