Structure & Function: Dry Needling
[shaker_image]Sue Falsone created her own enterprise, Structure & Function: Dry Needling, to introduce dry needling to health care professionals. She organizes classes in America to better the proficiency of health care professionals. SFDN offers a twenty-five hour dry needling seminar across the country, with future events in San Angelo. Spread across three days, the seminar teaches topics on the important dry needling methods for curing a number of acute and chronic conditions in professional athletes. During the seminar, Sue Falsone instructs on how to use techniques like intra-muscular electric stimulation (short: IMS) and cupping.
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Sue Falsone and Dry Needling
[shaker_image]Dry needling, a blend of art and science, is performed by a skilled physical therapist who uses his knowledge of dry needles to stimulate the muscles of the athlete. Sue Falsone, the founder and CEO of Structure and Function Dry Needling, started a practical dry needling approach that is called SFDN, the namesake of her organization! Throughout the decade in the business, Sue gathered a tremendous amount of expertise which she used to invent her dry needling approach. As a real pioneer in her area of expertise, Sue worked as Head Athletic Trainer for the LA Dodgers, making her the very first woman in the position of Head Athletic Coach in the 4 most important sports in the United States. The the US Men’s National Soccer team also saw her competence and gave her the job of Head Athletic Trainer.
Objectives
The course wants to allow the clinician:
- to understand safe acupuncture needle handling practices, and avoid potential diseases transferred by blood;
- to get a better understanding the external anatomy of the patient in terms of his well-being while handling dry needles;
- to apply intramuscular stimulation in treating commonplace ortho and sports-related problems; and also learn different cupping techniques.
- to show the practitioner the contraindications and safeguards while using the aforementioned technique;
- to teach the students to use dry needling techniques when treating various ortho and sports-related injuries;
Upon completion of the course, the attendees will be proficient in the use of their new skills, and will manage to use them to treat their athletes.
Course Info
The price for the course is $1295, although one individual can participate in the class at no charge if their sports club or department brings ten other course participants. It is advisable that students take a couple of specific items with them to class: a TENS unit (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation), alligator clips, and a comprehensive book teaching human anatomy. Dry needles will be given to everyone by the seminar lecturers. Structure & Function: Dry Needling has been approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC) to provide services of continuing education to certified Athletic Trainers and is currently in the process of approving CEUs. In some professions, Continuing Education Units are obligatory for people to retain their licenses and keep working in their industry.
Right now, these are the places that offer continuing education classes approved by ProCert for Physiotherapists to earn twenty-six CEUs: San Angelo. Also, National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA BOC) (P10069) provides the ability to earn 25 Continuing Education Units, Arizona Physical Therapy Association 2.5 Continuing Education Units, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association twenty-five CEUs.
Hosting a Seminar
[shaker_image]Physical therapists as well as other medical professionals who would like to host a course may do so after filling out the form and submitting an application. The latest info about dry needling, cupping, and intramuscular stimulation goes into Structure & Function: Dry Needling’s events. Sue Falsone used her knowledge and experience gained at the forefront of her field, to incorporate pain management, dry needling, fascial manipulation, visceral manipulation, movement efficacy, soft tissue mobilization, and differential diagnosis to form the dry needling system now sought after and praised across the nation.
Using the modern methodology and info, it enables clinicians to increase their knowledge in curing the many pathologies in rehabilitation of athletes, as well as further expand the knowledge of health care professionals in sport.
Get in Contact
Stop over at Structure & Function: Dry needling’s webpage in case you want to learn more info about our upcoming courses; available on our website.
Phone Structure & Function: Dry Needling at (602) 888-1998, or send an email which can be found on our Contact Page.
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