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Kristen Zeanah PT, DPT discusses how he uses dry needling with patients recovering from opioid addiciton for pain relief, mobility, and quality of life. Kristen is an iDryNeedle ambassador and owner of 10xPhysio in Alabama and works pro bono at Brother Brian mission in Birmingham. He has advanced training in dry needling.
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iDryNeedle ambassador Judy Gelber PT, DPT, OCS, CFL2 goes into how she went from a non-believer of dry needling in her already thriving practice and clinical expertise, to adding this as a very effective tool.
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iDryNeedle ambassador Lauryn Ginsburg, PT, DPT shares the success story of one patient involving CrossFit, shoulder pain and impressive outcomes with dry needling. Lauryn is owner of SportsFit Physical Therapy in Middleton, Massachusetts. She's a competitive weightlifter herself and a passionate clinician with advanced training in dry needling who specializes in treating CrossFitters, Olympic Weightlifters, and Gymnasts, but enjoys treating all people looking to stay healthy and active!
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Paul Killoren, PT, DPT goes into 5 applications of dry needling, many of them you may not have considered before. See research and rationale for dry needling acute injuries, spasticity, pre-competition for muscle function, post-competition for recovery, and for pain relief in general.
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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Check out the full text for this December 2017 IJSPT clinical trial here- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC57174..
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“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
