[shaker_image]Sue Falsone started her own company, Structure & Function: Dry Needling, in order to teach dry needling to health care professionals. She runs lectures throughout America to develop the proficiency of sports professionals. SFDN offers dry needling classes, twenty-five hours in length, in Joliet and other big cities all over the US. Spread across 3 days, the seminar deals with various topics on the basic dry needling methods for curing all sorts of acute and chronic ailments in athletes.
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About Sue Falsone and Dry Needling
Dry needling, as a blend of skill and art, is done by an expert health professional who uses dry needles to stimulate the athlete’s muscles. At Structure & Function Dry Needling, founder and Chief Executive Officer Sue Falsone started a dry needling approach named SFDN! In the course of her years in the business, Sue garnered a great amount of expertise which she then used to invent her dry needling system. As an original leader in her area of expertise, she worked as Head Athletic Trainer for the LA Dodgers organization, making her the very first female to assume the role of Head Athletic Trainer in the 4 major sports in the US. The American Men’s National Soccer team also recognized her competence and made her Head Athletic Trainer.
Course Objectives
The course was designed for the clinician:
- to better understand both general and individual anatomies of the subject in order to ensure their well-being when using dry needling;
- to allow the practitioners to employ dry needling techniques when treating various orthopedic and sports-related injuries;
- to be able to use intramuscular stimulation in aiding commonplace ortho and sports-related conditions; and also learn various cupping techniques.
- to make sure the health professional understands the contraindications and safeguards in in terms of dry needling;
- to be able to handle dry needles in a proper manner, and also adhere to official health rules and guidelines;
After the course is over, the participants will be proficient in the use of their new skills, and will manage to successfully use them while working on their athletes.
Course Info
The price for the seminars is one thousand two hundred ninety five dollars, although one person may participate in the class for free if their club or facility registers ten other course participants. It is advisable that course participants bring certain things with them to class: a TENS unit (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation), alligator clamps, and a book teaching the human anatomy. Dry needles for use in class will be made available to everyone attending by the class lecturers. SFDN has been approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC) to provide services of continuing education to accredited Athletic Trainers and is as of this moment in the process of approving CEUs (Continuing Education Units). In some professions, CEUs are obligatory for those employed to retain their licenses and keep working in their industry.
Continuing education classes approved by ProCert for Physical Therapists are presently offered at these places and award 26 Continuing Education Units: Joliet. National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA BOC) (P10069) allows the student to get twenty-five Continuing Education Units, Arizona Physical Therapy Association two and a half Continuing Education Units, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association 25 Continuing Education Units.
Info on How to Host an Event
If they would like to offer a dry needling course, physiotherapists and other medical professionals can register for it on the SFDNís web site. Our dry needling seminars teach the latest approach to the science of dry needling, and also intramuscular stimulation and cupping. Sue Falsone made use of her competence and experience gained at the forefront of her field, to combine dry needling, pain management, differential diagnosis, fascial manipulation, soft tissue mobilization, visceral manipulation, and movement efficiency into the dry needling approach now sought after and praised throughout the United States.
Using the newest methodology and info enables clinicians to better their skill in curing the many pathologies in athletes’ recovery, as well as further expand the overall knowledge of health care professionals in sport.
More about Our Dry Needling Seminars
Go to Structure & Function: Dry needling’s web site in case you wish to find out more info about our upcoming courses; on our website.
You will be able to contact Sue Falsone and her team via the Contact us section of our web site, by telephone at (602) 888-1998, or by dropping them an email, as stated on our Contact page.