Paul Killoren PT, DPT
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Paul Killoren PT, DPT is the co-founder and current president of iDryNeedle. As a physical therapist, he was first trained in dry needling in 2010 and joined the KinetaCore Education DN faculty in 2014. Since that time, Paul has instructed on over 130 DN courses and continues to develop iDN as a resource and community for dry needling clinicians.
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Sarcastic Anatomy by iDryNeedle puts in-depth anatomy into a satirical context. Designed for rehab professionals (PT, chiropractor, ATC) and with a subject matter appropriate for the dry needling healthcare practitioner.
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Frustrating 6th grade spelling bee participants for decades, the psassy little psoas doesn’t like to pronounce his P’s. Pso dumb. Editor’s note: I seriously considered writing this entire blog with a silent ‘P’ in front of every word starting with an ‘S’, but that one sentence up top already annoy
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This edition of Sarcastic Anatomy from iDryNeedle focuses on the good, the bad, and the ugly involving the latissimus dorsi. This muscle is imperative to global stability and function, and worth knowing more about whether you are a dry needling clinician or fitness newbie.
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Don't take this too seriously. Our own Paul Killoren PT, DPT gives you everything you need to know about multifidus, including his personal appraisal. He was overheard muttering, "I'm just saying what everyone else is thinking about multifidus."
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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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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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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
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Check out this October 2017 dry
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