Structure & Function: Dry Needling
[shaker_image]Structure & Function: Dry Needling (SFDN) is an education organization focused on teaching the dry needling approach to physiotherapists, hosted by Sue Falsone. She teaches seminars across America to improve the knowledge of health care professionals. Structure & Function: Dry Needling offers a 25 hour dry needling class all over the United States, with future events in Las Vegas, Nevada! Spread across three days, the course offers training sessions on how to use basic dry needling techniques on treating a range of acute & serious conditions in athletes.
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Who is Sue Falsone and What is Dry Needling?
[shaker_image]In the world of dry needling, an experienced licensed health care professional works with dry needles to penetrate the dermis and stimulate the professional athlete’s muscles. Sue Falsone, the creator and Chief Executive Officer of SFDN, launched a real-world dry needling system named Structure and Function Dry Needling, the namesake of her company. In the course of the decade in the industry, Sue gathered a great amount of experience which she then used to perfect her dry needling system. Sue spent time working as Head Athletic Trainer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where she worked as the first woman to assume the role of Head Athletic Coach in all of the four most popular sports in the United States. She also spent some time working as the Head Athletic Coach for the American Men’s National Soccer team.
Course Curriculum
The purpose of the course is:
- to get to know both general and respective anatomies of the patient in order to make sure they are safe when using the technique of dry needling;
- to enable the clinicians to employ dry needling techniques when treating various ortho and sports-related conditions;
- to successfully utilize intramuscular stimulation when treating different orthopedic and sports-related conditions; and excel in the knowledge cupping techniques.
- to make certain the health professional knows of the contraindications and safeguards in in terms of dry needling;
- to handle dry needles in a safe way, as well as abide by official health rules and regulations;
Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to use their newly found abilities, and will manage to use them to treat their athletes.
Information Regarding Our Course
The classes are one thousand two hundred ninety five dollars, and for every ten people someone signs up, they (their department or club) get registration fees waived for one individual. It is recommended that the practitioners take a few specific things along with them to the seminar: a TENS unit, alligator clamps, and a book about the human anatomy. The staff will supply the needles for everyone to use throughout the course. As well as approving CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for their courses, Structure & Function: Dry Needling is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to offer services of continuing education to accredited Athletic Trainers. CEUs are mandatory by practitioners in all sorts of fields to retain their work licenses.
Presently, these places allow you to partake in continuing education events approved by ProCert for Physiotherapists to earn twenty-six CEUs: Las Vegas, Nevada. Further, National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA BOC) (P10069) offers the way to earn twenty-five CEUs, Arizona Physical Therapy Association 2.5 Continuing Education Units, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association twenty-five CEUs.
How to Host a Course
If they would like to host a dry needling course, physical therapists and other health care professionals may sign up to do so on the SFDNís web site. The latest research and knowledge of cupping, dry needling, and intramuscular stimulation is contained in our seminars. Sue Falsone combined her skills and expertise to incorporate pain management, dry needling, fascial manipulation, visceral manipulation, movement efficiency, soft tissue mobilization, and differential diagnosis to make the dry needling system as of this moment respected and admired all over America.
When using the SFDN system, apart from enriching the overall repository of sports therapy skills, practitioners will know how to enhance the treatment of their athletes and patients.
Get in Contact
Go to SFDN’s webpage in case you want to learn more about our upcoming events; available on our Courses Page.
Phone SFDN at (602) 888-1998, or send them an e-mail which can be found on our Contact Page.
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