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Pelvic floor dysfunction encompasses a wide variety of medical diagnoses and clinical presentations. As a patient, navigating healthcare professionals in this area can be a very frustrating and time consuming process. This process can take months, or even years, to find the right provider with the right tools to help improve overall quality of life. Not to mention, there is a certain...
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A PSA from Karen Bonney, DPT What is a Home Exercise Program (HEP)? It seems pretty intuitive, right? A home exercise program is the group of exercises we usually give out to our patients in order to reinforce our hard work in the session. But what about education and exercise principles? Or prescribing rest? Or utilizing medications...
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Emilio J. Poveda-Pagán 1, Sergio Hernández-Sánchez 1, Luis Rhys-Jones-López 1, Antonio Palazón-Bru 2 & Carlos Lozano-Quijada 1 The aim of this study was to evaluate the tips and the surface conditions of two types of needles with different quality and their possible alterations after performing different needling on human beings. A total of 160 needles from AguPunt bran...
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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 thera...
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