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Hi Sue,
Just wondering if we have any lettering with your course to show that we are certified, I see some PT’s using CIDN if they take the integrative dry needling courses? Thanks a lot and I still recommend your course to all the Phx people I come across!
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Great to hear from you Peer!
Thanks for the question.Right now, I don’t offer any “letters” after your name. I do not provide a certification at this time. I offer a certificate of completion. Until there is a national governing body who controls the standards for dry needling (think ATC, CSCS, CPR, etc), and who independently tests these standards, and follows up annually to ensure continued competencies in the area, current certifications are truly marketing tools. Each state has a minimum requirement for practice for each profession as well, so if you took my class and became “certified”, but work in a state that requires 50 hours of training, your certification wouldn’t mean anything.
A certification in dry needling from another company means nothing to me, and vice versa.
I have a lot of letters after my name, but anything related to DN are not any of them. :-)I am not opposed to creating this scenario in the future, now that we have a 7 (and soon to be 10) course curricula. It would be something that requires multiple classes, a separate testing day (not at the end of a class) and follow up every other year or so to demonstrate continued competency in dry needling. This is at least 1-2 years down the road. If we are going to do it, we are going to do it right! Not just have people complete one class and become “certified”.
Hope that makes sense!
Thanks for spreading the good word about SFDN!!Sue
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