[shaker_image]Structure & Function: Dry Needling (SFDN) is a training enterprise with the goal of teaching the dry needling approach to sports and health care practitioners, started by Sue Falsone. She runs classes in America to improve the expertise of medical professionals. They offer dry needling classes, 25 hours in length, in West Jordan and other major towns all over the US. Over three days, the seminar provides lectures on how to use important dry needling approaches to treating a variety of acute and serious problems in athletes.
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What is Dry Needling and Who is Sue Falsone?
Dry needling, as a blend of art and science, is done by a health professional who works with acupuncture needles to stimulate the professional athlete’s muscles. At SFDN, founder and CEO Sue Falsone launched a dry needling concept called Structure & Function: Dry Needling! The approach is regarded as a combination of skills Sue Falsone introduced and perfected in the course of a couple of decades in the business. Sue Falsoneís experience includes stints as Head Athletic Coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where she served as the first female Head Athletic Coach in any of the 4 major sports in the US. Also, Sue Falsone spent some time working as the Head Athletic Trainer for the US Men’s National Soccer team.
Objectives of the Course
The objectives of the course are the following:
- to understand the external anatomy of the patient regarding his well-being while working with acupuncture needles;
- to allow the practitioners to employ dry needling techniques when addressing various orthopedic and sports-related injuries;
- to employ intramuscular stimulation when curing different orthopedic and sports-related problems; and to become proficient when using cupping techniques.
- to be sure the practitioner understands the contraindications and safety measures in in regards to dry needling;
- to understand safe needle usage techniques, and eliminate exposure to blood borne diseases;
After the course is over, the attendees will be proficient in the use of their newly learned skills, and will manage to use them with success when working on their athletes.
Information Regarding Our Courses
The events come at a price of one thousand two hundred ninety five dollars, and for every ten people someone signs up, they (their sports club or department) get registration fees waived for 1 individual. course participants are encouraged to bring the following three things: an anatomy book (edition and author unspecified), a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation device, as well as alligator clips. The staff will supply the needles for all participants to have during the seminar. Structure & Function: Dry Needling is recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc. to offer continuing education services to accredited Athletic Trainers and is at this moment in the process of approving CEUs (Continuing Education Units). In some fields, CEUs are required for to keep on working in their industry.
Continuing education events approved by ProCert for Physical Therapists are currently offered in the following places for 26 Continuing Education Units: West Jordan, Utah. Further, NATA BOC (National Athletic Trainers’ Association) (P10069) provides the way to get twenty-five CEUs, Arizona Physical Therapy Association two and a half CEUs, and Georgia Physical Therapy Association twenty-five Continuing Education Units.
Hosting a Class
If they would like to host a dry needling course, physical therapists and other medical professionals can apply for it on the SFDNís webpage. SFDN’s dry needling seminars provide the newest techniques and methods in the art of dry needling, as well as intramuscular stimulation and cupping. Sue Falsone made use of her knowledge and expertise garnered at the frontiers of her field, to incorporate dry needling, pain management, differential diagnosis, fascial manipulation, soft tissue mobilization, visceral manipulation, and movement efficacy to form the dry needling approach as of now respected and praised across the nation.
Using the SFDN approach, apart from expanding the overall repository of sports rehabilitation skills, health care professionals can to enhance the treatment of their patients and athletes.
More about Our Courses
Visit SFDN’s web site if you want to find out more info about our courses; available on our website.
You will be able to reach out to Sue Falsone and her employees by using the Contact us form on our web page, by telephone at (602) 888-1998, or by sending an email, as stated on our Contact page.