[shaker_image]Sue Falsone started her organization, Structure & Function: Dry Needling, in order to educate and teach dry needling to health care professionals. She organizes courses in the US to better the proficiency of health care professionals. Structure & Function: Dry Needling offers a 25 hour dry needling class all over the US, with future events in Carrollton, Texas! Over the course of three days, the class offers lectures on using fundamental dry needling approaches to treating a number of acute and/or chronic conditions in athletes.
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What is Dry Needling and Who is Sue Falsone?
Dry needling, as a mix of skill and art, is performed by an expert medical professional who uses dry needles to stimulate the muscles of the athlete. Sue Falsone, the creator and CEO of SFDN, launched a practical dry needling concept named Structure and Function Dry Needling, which shares a name with her business! In the course of the decade in the industry, Falsone acquired a great amount of expertise which she used to invent her dry needling system. As a real leader in her field of expertise, she served as Head Athletic Coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers, which made her the very first female to assume the position of Head Athletic Coach in the 4 most popular sports in the United States. The the US Men’s National Soccer team also perceived her accomplishments and made her Head Athletic Trainer.
Course Objectives
The aim of the course is the following:
- to better understand both general and individual anatomies of the patient in order to make sure they are safe as the clinician is using dry needling;
- to be able to use dry needling techniques in treating prevalent sports-related injuries;
- to be able to apply intramuscular stimulation in treating everyday orthopedic and sports-related conditions; as well as learn various cupping techniques.
- to make sure the clinician is acquainted with the contraindications and safety measures in in terms of dry needling;
- to be able to work with dry needles in a proper manner, and adhere to official health rules and regulations;
Upon completion of the course, the practitioners will be confident enough to use their newfound abilities to treat varying pathologies and issues within the fields of orthopedic and sports medicine.
Info About the Course
[shaker_image]The events come at a price of one thousand two hundred ninety five dollars, and when someone signs ten people up, they (their sports club or department) get registration fees waived for 1 person. course participants should bring the following three items: a book about human anatomy (edition and author unspecified), a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation device, along with alligator clips. Dry needles will be made available to all participants by the seminar lecturers. In addition to being in the process of approving Continued Education Units (CEUs) for their future courses, SFDN is licensed by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education services to accredited Athletic Trainers. In a number of fields, CEUs are required for people to keep their licenses and keep working in their industry.
Presently, the following cities offer continuing education activities approved by ProCert for Physiotherapists to get twenty-six Continuing Education Units: Carrollton, Texas. Also, National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA BOC) (P10069) provides the means to earn twenty-five CEUs, Arizona Physical Therapy Association two and a half Continuing Education Units, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association twenty-five CEUs.
Information on How to Host a Class
[shaker_image]Physiotherapists as well as many other clinicians who are interested in hosting a seminar may do so upon filling out the form and submitting an application on the Structure & Function: Dry Needling’s web site. Our dry needling classes offer the modern techniques and methods in the art of dry needling, as well as intramuscular stimulation and cupping. The award winning and highly regarded dry needling system started by Sue Falsone was developed thanks to her few decades of experience in order to be an effective combination of pain management, dry needling, fascial manipulation, visceral manipulation, movement efficiency, soft tissue mobilization, and differential diagnosis.
Using the Structure & Function approach, apart from enriching the overall foundation of sports medicine knowledge, clinicians are able to offer their patients more advanced and higher quality treatment.
Contact Us
Stop over at SFDN’s web site if you want to find out more information about our upcoming courses; available on our Courses Page.
You will be able to contact Sue Falsone and her employees by using the Contact us form on our webpage, by telephone at (602) 888-1998, or by forwarding an email, as stated here on our Contact page.
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