Level 1 Online Course:

• Pre-course reading with a quiz.
• Online lectures by ODNS staff consisting of the following topics:
• historical overview
• the neurophysiology of superficial and deep dry needling
• ethics, precautions and contraindications
• dry needling for radicular pain
• clinical reasoning with the role of agonists and antagonists.

The online course includes exam questions for each lecture.  This online portion must be completed before the practical course, and will fulfill written examination requirements for dry needling courses.

Level 1 Practical Course:

The two-day intensive will prepare participants to treat most of the common diagnoses that involve myofascial pain.The importance of safety and clean techniques are taught and practiced throughout the workshop, ensuring that participants become accustomed to working with gloves and maintaining a neat and safe workspace throughout.  They will practice the techniques of inserting, manipulating, removing, and disposing of the needles on the first morning of the course.Students will learn and practice the use of superficial dry needling including fascia and scars, periosteal pecking, and deep dry needling of the buttock, thigh, shoulder, cervical, and lumbar muscles.Case studies are included to apply clinical reasoning and recognize common indications for dry needling.This course includes practical competency exams at the end of each day

Level 2

Level 2 Online Course:

• Pre-course reading with a quiz
• Lectures by ODNS staff consisting of the following topics:
• Tensegrity and it’s significance to dry needling
• Applications of EStim with dry needling
• Adverse events
• Nutritional considerations
• TMJ Dysfunction

The online course includes exam questions for each lecture.  This online portion must be completed before the practical course, and will fulfill written examination requirements for dry needling courses.

level 2 Practical Course:

As an experienced dry needling practitioner, this advanced course is a must to complete the use of dry needling with patients presenting with headaches, TMJ dysfunction, tennis and golfers elbow, carpal tunnel, CRPS, plantar fasciitis, tibial compartment syndrome, sprained ankle, hallux valgus, thoracic and abdominal pain.The goal of this advanced dry needling course is to gain expertise in needling the more delicate and higher risk areas in the body, including the face and anterior neck, forearm and hand, lower leg and foot, thorax and abdominal wall.  It is a competency-based course, which will introduce more of the recent research, teach the use of estim with needles.This course ends with a practical competency exam

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