[shaker_image]Sue Falsone created the business, Structure & Function: Dry Needling (SFDN), to introduce dry needling to sports professionals. She runs lectures in the US to develop the expertise of health care professionals. SFDN offers a twenty-five hr dry needling course all over the country, with upcoming events in Greeley, Colorado! Over the course of 3 days, the class teaches a bunch of topics on the important dry needling methods for treating all sorts of acute and chronic problems in athletes. During the course, Sue Falsone also demonstrates how to use intramuscular electrical stimulation (abbreviated: IMS) and cupping.
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About Sue Falsone and Dry Needling
Using the technique of dry needling, an experienced approved medical professional works with acupuncture needles to enter the dermis and stimulate the professional athlete’s muscles. Sue Falsone, the woman behind the company and CEO of Structure and Function Dry Needling, launched a real-world dry needling approach that is called Structure and Function Dry Needling, the namesake of her company! Throughout her years in the industry, Falsone garnered a tremendous amount of expertise which she then used to perfect her dry needling approach. Sue Falsone worked as Head Athletic Coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where she worked as the first woman to assume the role of Head Athletic Trainer in all of the four major sports in America. Also, Sue Falsone spent some time working as the Head Athletic Coach for the American Men’s National Soccer team.
Objectives
The course wants to allow the clinician:
- to be able to use acupuncture needles in a proper manner, and also abide by official health guidelines and regulations;
- to get to know general and respective anatomies of the patient to be able to assure them of their safety while using dry needling;
- to use intramuscular stimulation when curing different orthopedic and sports-related conditions; as well as become proficient when using cupping techniques.
- to acquaint with the health professional the contraindications and safeguards while using said technique;
- to enable the students to use dry needling techniques when treating various orthopedic and sports-related injuries;
Upon completion of the course, the practitioners will have perfected their new abilities, and will be able to successfully use them when working on their athletes.
Class Info
[shaker_image]The fee for the events is $1295, although one individual can participate in the class at no cost when their sports club or facility sings up ten other students. It is advisable that students bring a few specific items along with them to the seminar: a TENS unit (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation), alligator clips, and an anatomy book. The lecturers supply the needles for all students to have in class. Structure & Function: Dry Needling is licensed by the Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC) to offer continuing education services to certified Athletic Trainers and is as of this moment approving CEUs (Continuing Education Units). In some professions, Continuing Education Units are required for people to maintain their licenses and go on working in their industry.
Continuing education events approved by ProCert for Physiotherapists are right now being held in the following places and award twenty-six CEUs: Greeley. National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA BOC) (P10069) enables the student to earn 25 CEUs, Arizona Physical Therapy Association 2.5 CEUs, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association twenty-five Continuing Education Units.
How to Host a Class
[shaker_image]If they would like to offer a dry needling course, physical therapists and other medical professionals can register to do so. SFDN’s dry needling events provide the latest techniques and methods in the science of dry needling, and also intramuscular stimulation and cupping. The award winning and acclaimed dry needling approach started by Sue Falsone draws on her few decades of expertise in order to become a quality combination of dry needling, pain management, differential diagnosis, fascial manipulation, soft tissue mobilization, visceral manipulation, and movement efficacy.
When using the Structure & Function approach, apart from increasing the foundation of sports rehabilitation knowledge, sports medical professionals will be able to enhance the care for their patients.
Get in Contact
Go to Structure & Function: Dry needling’s website in case you want to hear more info about our upcoming seminars; on our website.
Give Structure & Function: Dry Needling a call at (602) 888-1998, or send them an email which can be found at our Contact Page.