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The “turf” battle between Acupuncturists and Physical Therapists has waged with ever increasing attention, media coverage and cost.  But who really benefits, and more importantly, who suffers? This most...

It’s interesting to think that dry needling, a technique developed in the 1980’s, remains in its infancy. Even with top hierarchical research on safety and effectiveness, widespread acceptance worldwide and (almost) entirely in the US, use by every major sports league and our military, and recognition by DPT programs – dry needling is in diapers. Estimations have been made that <3% of physical therapists in the US are currently practicing dry needling and the number of emails, calls and conve

Well, you finally did it. You managed to turn that “recreational” version of lawn darts into American Gladiators (a true American institution if I’m being honest, but I digress). It’s mayhem out there. You are frantically running through...

The Evidence-Based Practice Debate – the WHAT brain and the WHY brain.

In physical therapy (and likely all medicine), I can’t think of anything more agreeable, yet aggressively confrontational than the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) conversation. The term and principles – completely agreeable. But applying it to treatment X, Y, Z – utterly polarizing. Initially, these affable professional conversations morph into uncompromising rhetoric, ultimately polarizing a topic

Check out the full text for this December 2017 IJSPT clinical trial here- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC57174..

“Should I use dry needling before or after other manual techniques?”

A good question – and one we get on courses all the time.

“Should I use dry needling before or after other manual techniques?”

I’ll defuse the potential e-bomb right now and say this is clearly an “it depends” answer. It depends on a lot actually…diagnosis, condition chronicity, severity, complexity, your treatment model, your expertise – but l

Check out this October 2017 dry

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Calvo, S., Quintero, I., & Herrero, P. (2016). Effects of dry needling (DNHS technique) on the contractile properties of spastic muscles in a patient with stroke: a case report. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 39(4), 372-376.

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