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Course Descriptions

innovative techniques + optimal clinical outcomes

Dry Needling + Pelvic Health

Foundational Concepts + Techniques

Dry Needling and Pelvic Health: Foundational Concepts and Techniques is a lab intensive, hybrid course designed with the pelvic health practitioner in mind.  This course is an innovative approach to treating clients with pelvic floor dysfunction commonly associated with pelvic pain, incontinence, voiding dysfunction and/or sexual pain or dysfunction.  This foundational dry needling course will instruct participants in the application of dry needling to female pelvic floor musculature and associated neuroanatomical structures including the anterior/posterior thigh, lumbosacral spine, trunk, pelvis and hip joint complex.  This course will provide a comprehensive review of anatomy, a strong emphasis on safety and precautions, ample lab time to optimize dry needling techniques, as well as dialogue surrounding clinical integration and relevant evidence.

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Dry Needling + Pelvic Health

Pregnancy + Postpartum Considerations

Dry Needling + Pelvic Health: Pregnancy + Postpartum Considerations is a lab intensive, hybrid course designed with the pelvic health and orthopedic practitioner in mind who treat a perinatal population.  This course is an innovative approach to treating the neuromusculoskeletal conditions commonly associated with the pregnancy and postpartum periods.  This dry needling course will address physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy, dysfunctions such as pregnancy and postpartum pain syndromes, pelvic floor dysfunctions, pregnancy-related carpal tunnel syndrome, pregnancy-related plantar fasciitis, labor induced peripheral neuropathy, postural dysfunction, headaches and much more!  We will instruct participants in the application of dry needling to the extremities, cervical spine, thoracic spine, lumbosacral spine and pelvic floor musculature.  This course will provide a comprehensive review of anatomy, a strong emphasis on safety and precautions, ample lab time to optimize dry needling techniques, as well as dialogue surrounding clinical integration and relevant evidence.

Dry Needling + Pelvic Health

Advanced Concepts + Neuromodulation

Dry Needling and Pelvic Health: Advanced Concepts and Neuromodulation is a lab intensive, hybrid course designed with the pelvic health practitioner in mind.  This course is an innovative approach to treating clients with pelvic floor dysfunction commonly associated with pelvic pain, incontinence, voiding dysfunction and/or sexual pain or dysfunction.  This advanced dry needling course will instruct participants in the application of dry needling to female and male pelvic floor musculature and associated neuroanatomical structures including the thoracolumbar spine, trunk, abdomen, pelvis and hip joint complex.  This course will also discuss and integrate the concept of and techniques associated with neuromodulation.  Additionally, there will be a comprehensive review of anatomy, a strong emphasis on safety and precautions, ample lab time to optimize dry needling techniques, as well as dialogue surrounding clinical integration and relevant evidence.

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Dry Needling

Foundational Concepts + Techniques

Dry Needling: Foundational Concepts and Techniques is a lab intensive, hybrid course designed with the rehabilitation practitioner in mind.  This course is an innovative approach to treating clients with neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction commonly associated with neuro-orthopedic dysfunction.  This foundational dry needling course will instruct participants in the application of dry needling to the neuroanatomical structures of the cervical spine, occiput, shoulder girdle, upper extremity, lumbosacral spine, anterior, medial and posterior hip and thigh and the lower extremity.  This course will provide a comprehensive review of anatomy, a strong emphasis on safety and precautions, ample lab time to optimize dry needling techniques, as well as dialogue surrounding clinical integration and relevant evidence.

Dry Needling

Advanced Concepts + Neuromodulation

Dry Needling: Advanced Concepts and Neuromodulation is a lab intensive, hybrid course designed with the rehabilitation practitioner in mind.  This course is an innovative approach to treating clients with neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction.  This advanced dry needling course will instruct participants in the application of dry needling to advanced neuroanatomical structures including the temporomandibular musculature, the cervicothoracic spine, thoracolumbar spine, trunk, abdomen, hip joint complex and extremities.  This course will also discuss and integrate the concept of and techniques associated with neuromodulation.  Additionally, there will be a comprehensive review of anatomy, a strong emphasis on safety and precautions, ample lab time to optimize dry needling techniques, as well as dialogue surrounding clinical integration and relevant evidence.

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