[shaker_image]Structure & Function: Dry Needling (SFDN) is a training enterprise focused on introducing dry needling to physical therapists, started by Sue Falsone. She organizes courses throughout America to improve the expertise of health care professionals. Structure & Function: Dry Needling offers dry needling courses, twenty-five hrs in length, in Saint Paul and other big cities all over the US. Spread across 3 days, the course is comprised of different topics on the important dry needling techniques for treating a number of acute and chronic ailments in professional athletes. As part of the class program, Sue Falsone also teaches ways to use cupping and intramuscular electrical stimulation (short: IMS).
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About Dry Needling and Sue Falsone
[shaker_image]Using the technique of dry needling, an experienced certified physical therapist uses his skill with acupuncture needles to penetrate the dermis and stimulate the muscles of the athlete. At SFDN, founder and Chief Executive Officer Sue Falsone started a dry needling concept named SFDN. Over the course of the decade in the business, Falsone garnered a great amount of expertise which she used to develop her dry needling approach. As a real pioneer in her field of expertise, Sue served as Head Athletic Coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, making her the very first woman in the position of Head Athletic Trainer in the 4 major sports in the United States. The the United States Men’s National Soccer team also perceived her accomplishments and gave her the job of Head Athletic Trainer.
Course Curriculum
The course was designed for the health care professional:
- to allow the clinicians to use dry needling techniques when treating different ortho and sports-related injuries;
- to be able to apply intramuscular stimulation in treating commonplace orthopedic and sports-related problems; and to master different cupping techniques.
- to better understand the surface anatomy of the patient in regards to his well-being when working with dry needles;
- to master secure needle handling techniques, and eliminate risk of blood borne diseases;
- to be certain the health professional understands the contraindications and safety measures in in terms of dry needling;
When the course is finished, the students will manage to combine their new skills in order to cure varying conditions and issues within the fields of ortho and sports medicine.
Information Regarding Our Class
[shaker_image]The classes are priced at one thousand two hundred ninety five dollars, and for every ten people someone registers, they (their sports club or department) get registration fees waived for one person. course participants should bring the following three things: an anatomy book (edition and author unspecified), a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation device, along with alligator clamps. The lecturers provide the needles for all participants to have in class. Structure & Function: Dry Needling has been approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to licensed Athletic Trainers and is as of this moment approving CEUs. In certain professions, CEUs are obligatory for people to maintain their licenses and keep working in their field.
Continuing education seminars approved by ProCert for Physical Therapists are right now offered in the following places and award 26 Continuing Education Units: Saint Paul, Minnesota. NATA BOC (National Athletic Trainers’ Association) (P10069) enables the practitioner to get 25 CEUs, Arizona Physical Therapy Association two and a half CEUs, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association 25 CEUs.
How to Host a Class
Physical therapists as well as various other medical professionals who are interested in hosting an event may participate after filling out the form and submitting an application on the Structure & Function: Dry Needling’s website. The newest research and knowledge of intramuscular stimulation, cupping, and dry needling is contained in the classes. The brilliant and acclaimed dry needling approach developed by Sue Falsone was developed thanks to her years of hard work in order to become an efficient 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 expanding the base of sports medicine skills, practitioners will know how to improve the care for their athletes.
Sign Up For a Course
Stop over at Structure & Function: Dry needling’s webpage in case you want to learn more info about our upcoming courses; on our website.
You can get in touch with Sue Falsone and her crew by using the Contact us section of our webpage, telephone at (602) 888-1998, or by forwarding an e-mail, as stated here on our Contact page.
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