[shaker_image]Sue Falsone founded her enterprise, Structure & Function: Dry Needling (SFDN), in order to educate and teach dry needling to health care professionals. She teaches classes across America to improve the knowledge of sports professionals. They offer dry needling courses, twenty-five hrs in length, in Cleveland and other major towns across America! Spanning 3 days, the course consists of various topics on the important dry needling methods for treating various acute and chronic conditions in athletes. During the class program, Sue Falsone also presents how to use cupping and intramuscular electrical stimulation (abbreviated: IMS).
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Who is Sue Falsone and What is Dry Needling?
Combining the art and science of dry needling, an expert approved physical therapist works with acupuncture needles to prick the skin and stimulate the professional athlete’s muscles. Sue Falsone, the founder and CEO of SFDN, developed a practical dry needling approach called Structure and Function Dry Needling, which shares a name with her business. In the course of the decade in the field, Sue Falsone garnered a great amount of experience which she then used to invent her dry needling approach. Sue Falsone worked as Head Athletic Coach for the LA Dodgers, where she worked as the first woman to assume the role of Head Athletic Trainer in any of the 4 most popular sports in the United States. She also worked as the Head Athletic Trainer for the United States Men’s National Soccer team.
Course Curriculum
The course wants to allow the medical professional:
- to work with dry needles in a proper manner, and also abide by health guidelines and regulations;
- to better understand the external anatomy of the subject in regards to his well-being when working with dry needles;
- to use intramuscular stimulation when curing various orthopedic and sports-related pathologies; and to excel when using cupping techniques.
- to make sure the clinician understands the contraindications and safeguards in terms of dry needling;
- to allow the students to use dry needling techniques when treating various ortho and sports-related injuries;
Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to use their new abilities, and will be able to successfully use them when treating their athletes.
Class Information
[shaker_image]The classes come at a price of $1295, and for every ten people someone signs up, they (their facility or department) get free access for 1 person. It is advisable that students take a couple of specific items along with them to the seminar: a TENS unit (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation), alligator clips, and a comprehensive book teaching the human anatomy. Dry needles for use in class will be supplied to all students by the seminar staff. As well as approving CEUs for their future courses, SFDN is licensed by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education services to certified Athletic Trainers. In certain fields, CEUs are obligatory for to keep on working in their industry.
Continuing education seminars certified by ProCert for Physiotherapists are presently available here and award twenty-six Continuing Education Units: Cleveland, Ohio. Further, National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA BOC) (P10069) offers the ability to get twenty-five CEUs, Arizona Physical Therapy Association 2.5 CEUs, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association twenty-five CEUs.
How to Host a Seminar
[shaker_image]Physical therapists and other clinicians who are interested in hosting a class can do so after filling out the form and submitting an application on the Structure & Function: Dry Needling’s website. The newest info about intramuscular stimulation, dry needling, and cupping goes into our seminars. The outstanding and highly regarded dry needling approach developed by Sue Falsone was created thanks to her few decades of experience to become a quality mix of pain management, dry needling, fascial manipulation, visceral manipulation, movement efficacy, soft tissue mobilization, and differential diagnosis.
Making use of the latest available methodology and info, it allows health care professionals to increase their skill in treating the many pathologies in athletes’ recovery, and also further expand the general knowledge of medical professionals in sports therapy.
Get in Contact
Stop over at Structure & Function: Dry needling’s web site if you wish to hear more about our seminars; available on our website.
Give Structure & Function: Dry Needling a call at (602) 888-1998, or send them an email which can be found on our Contact Page.