[shaker_image]Sue Falsone created the enterprise, Structure & Function: Dry Needling, with the intention to introduce dry needling to health care professionals. She organizes classes in America to develop the expertise of medical professionals. Structure & Function: Dry Needling offers dry needling classes, 25 hours in length, in Springfield, Illinois and other big cities all over the United States. Spanning three days, the seminar offers lectures on the use of essential dry needling techniques on curing a variety of acute or serious problems in athletes.
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Who is Sue Falsone and What is Dry Needling?
Combining the art and science of dry needling, an experienced certified health care professional uses his skill with acupuncture needles to enter the skin and stimulate the athlete’s muscles. Sue Falsone, the creator and Chief Executive Officer of SFDN, started a hands-on dry needling system that is called SFDN, which shares a name with her business! The concept is regarded as a mix of skills Sue combined and enhanced over the course of many decades in the field. Sue Falsone worked as Head Athletic Coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers, a period where she worked as the first woman to assume the role of Head Athletic Trainer in all of the 4 major sports in America. Also, Sue served as the Head Athletic Coach for the American Men’s National Soccer team.
Course Curriculum
The course wants to do the following:
- to better understand the surface anatomy of the subject regarding his well-being while working with needles;
- to use dry needling techniques in addressing common ortho and sports-related pathologies;
- to apply intramuscular stimulation in treating everyday ortho pathologies; and also master different cupping techniques.
- to be sure the health professional knows of the contraindications and precautions in in terms of dry needling;
- to learn proper needle handling techniques, and eliminate risk of exposure to blood borne diseases;
Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to combine their new knowledge in order to cure various problems in sports and orthopedic medicine.
Course Info
[shaker_image]The price for the classes is $1295, however 1 person may participate in the class at no charge if their sports club or department registers ten other course participants. It is advisable that participants bring certain items with them: a TENS unit (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation), alligator clips, and a comprehensive book teaching human anatomy. Dry needles for use in class will be supplied to all students by the seminar lecturers. SFDN has been approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide services of continuing education to licensed Athletic Trainers and is as of this moment approving CEUs. In a number of professions, CEUs are mandatory for those employed to retain their licenses and be able to go on working in their field.
Continuing education activities approved by ProCert for Physiotherapists are presently being held here and award twenty-six CEUs: Springfield, Illinois. NATA BOC (National Athletic Trainers’ Association) (P10069) enables the practitioner to earn twenty-five Continuing Education Units, Arizona Physical Therapy Association 2.5 Continuing Education Units, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association twenty-five CEUs.
Hosting a Course
[shaker_image]If they want to hold a dry needling course, physiotherapists and other health care professionals may sign up to do so. Our dry needling seminars offer the modern techniques and methods in the art of dry needling, and also intramuscular stimulation and cupping. The outstanding and acclaimed dry needling system introduced by Sue Falsone was created thanks to her years of hard work to serve as a quality combination of pain management, dry needling, fascial manipulation, visceral manipulation, movement efficacy, soft tissue mobilization, and differential diagnosis.
Using the Structure & Function system, aside from increasing the general foundation of sports therapy skills, sports medical professionals will know how to better the treatment of their athletes and patients.
More about Our Seminars
In order to get more information about dry needling events by SFDN, take a peek at our web page and check out the index of our events.
Give Structure & Function: Dry Needling a call at (602) 888-1998, or send an email which can be found at our Contact Page.