Electrical & Perineural Dry Needling

Our 3-day dry needling courses are based on The Hobbs Needling Paradigm and go beyond the trigger point and myofascial needling models. In these “full-body” courses participants learn a clinical reasoning system vs. an over reliance on semi-standard protocols.

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• proachTotal-Body Ap

• Safety, needle handling, and patient positioning.

• Clinical reasoning underpinned by the 5 Physiological Reasons to needle.

• Emphasis of Reason 4 & 5 of Hobbs Needling Paradigm in DIN-12.

• Introduced Concepts: Reasons 1, 2, & 3

• Matching technique to desired physiological response.

• TECHNIQUE EMPHASIS: Electrical, manual manipulation, & in stitu techniques.

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Targeted Area & Strategies

• NOTE: Technique chosen varies and is based which of the 5 reasons is being emphasized.

• Needling STRATEGIES:

  • Superficial & deep dry needling.

  • Electrical and perineural needling. 

  • Segmental and supraspinal response strategies.

  • Introduction to autonomic needling.

• Lumbar-Thoracic-Cervical (prone and side-lying):

  • Perineural angled approach.

  • Perpendicular and Angled Paraspinal & Laminar Approach (MSK Emphasis)

• Piriformis and sciatica perineural needling (prone and side-lying) 

• Sciatica and tibial nerve perineural strategies.

• Knee periarticular and periarterial approaches. 

• Common, deep and superficial nerve approahces. 

• Tibial nerver stimulation. 

• Medial and lateral foot perineural approaches. 

• Upper cervical region and greater, lesser and 3rd occipital nerve approaches. 

• Posterior shoulder, shoulder impingment and subacromial strategies. 

• Median, ulnar and radial nerve strategies.

• Introduction to reason 5 supraspinal response strategies.

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Description

This is a 27-hour foundational education course is aimed to emphasize the safety and foundational knowledge and skills needed for beginner to begin using dry needling in practice, as well as, expand the understanding of experienced practitioners to incorporate electrical needling into practice, helping to focus and simplify their practice while improving patient outcomes. This 3-day course is supplemented with online modules carefully developed to maximize delivery of live, 90% hands-on instruction. Practitioners will learn clinically reasoned, evidence-informed approaches of all major regions of the body, including the spine and both upper and lower quarters, for a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders. This will provide the busy clinician the requisite instruction necessary to treat the most common conditions encountered in daily clinical practice without the need to take multiple courses. For a broader foundational understanding, participants will be instructed not only in needling superficially and deep within muscles (i.e., trigger point dry needling) but will also learn proper periosteal and connective tissue needling techniques for many conditions. Additionally, participants will learn how to integrate peripheral, spinal segmental and central needling approaches within a clinical reasoning framework, as well as, electrical and perineural approaches. Course will also review current clinical guidelines and their inclusion or exclusion of needling as an intervention. 

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Objectives

1. Correctly identify 10 contraindications and 10 precautions to the use of electrical dry needling.

2. Demonstrate safe DINS handling techniques and patient positioning for 5 axial skeletal techniques with the use of electrical DIN.

3. Demonstrate safe DINS handling techniques and patient positioning for 5 extremity techniques with the use of electrical DIN.

4. Correctly describe the appropriate management of 5 adverse events that may occur in association with the use of electrical DIN.

5. Orally explain correctly, the current theoretical neurophysiological mechanisms of dry needling from periphery to cortex, including electrical DIN.

6. Appropriately defend the integration of the use of electrical DIN into the management of a given patient with a neuromusculoskeletal conditions.​

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