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Features of Dry Needling for Manual Therapists PDF

Following are the features of Dry Needling for Manual Therapists PDF:

Designed to be a go-to reference for assessment and treatment planning in the clinic, this is a clear and concise handbook for students and practitioners of dry needling, or medical acupuncture. It includes:

· Comprehensive medical illustrations demonstrating trigger point locations and associated pain referral patterns
· Easy-to-follow instructions and photographs demonstrating musculoskeletal dry needling points and electroacupuncture techniques
· Dedicated section on the acupuncture treatment of tendinopathy
· Vital information on palpation and correct needling techniques
· Practical guidance on best practice, safety and treatment planning
· Overviews of the history and key principles of Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture
· Up-to-date research on the effect of acupuncture in the treatment of MSK conditions, myofascial pain, trigger points (MTrPS), fascia and pain.

The book will be an essential aid for osteopaths, physiotherapists, sports rehabilitators, chiropractors, massage therapists, as well as traditional acupuncturists wishing to understand a Western approach on acupuncture. Other health professionals incorporating, or looking to incorporate dry needling into their treatment programme, will also find this book an invaluable resource.

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Description of Dry Needling for Manual Therapists PDF

For students of all the branches of medicine and surgery and health professionals that aspire to be greater and better at their procedures and medications. A renowned book by those who have read it and learnt from it. Many have already ordered it and is on the way to their home. Whether you work in the USA, Canada, UK or anywhere around the world. If you are working as a health professional then this is a must read..  The most reviewed on book Dry Needling for Manual Therapists PDF is available for grabs now here on our website free. Whatever books, mainly textbooks we have in professional courses specially Medicine and surgery is a compendium in itself so understand one book you need to refer another 2-10 books. Beside this there are various other text material which needs to be mastered!! Only reference books are partially read but all other books have to be read, commanded and in fact read multiple times.

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Top reviews

Dana
Great reference book
May 3, 2020

Awesome book for reference/ refresher. It has each body part labeled and exactly where the needles should go.

Christa Hendley
Good starter manual
April 22, 2022

This is a great book for beginner needlers to remind you of the basics!

Richard Zaruba
Much better and more complete texts available.
December 1, 2016

This is a very basic dry needling reference text. It actually has fewer trigger point identified than most trigger point references have identified. While a basic review of early trigger point theory is used as its foundation it lacks adequate coverage of neurophysiological aspects of Chan Gunn’s theories and approach, the thoroughness of Jan Dommerholt approach, or the expanded neurophysiological approaches of Edo Zylstra or Yun-tao Ma. I also take issue with the presentation of a political turf argument presented by Wisconsin acupuncturists with out presenting the full opposite argument including the independent study conducted to survey needed education for PTs to apply dry needling.

Joanne Mirabella
Five Stars
August 17, 2016

excellent material easy to comprehend

Michael
Perhaps good for someone who only has a weekend’s training but …
September 27, 2016

If you’re a licensed acupuncturist and have any orthopedic training this manual is rudimentary. Perhaps good for someone who only has a weekend’s training but for someone who does this day in and day out this was a waste of money. Level 1 orthopedics, more picture based than actual precise locations, similar to a trigger point manual…

mohd taib
Good
August 16, 2017

Good

Timothy R.
Buy this book and feel ethically good about your choice
May 4, 2016
This is a good first purchase if your intention is to help patients with dry needling. There seems to be much speculation that such an intention is unethical for anyone but acupuncturists. My inspiration to write this review is primarily a rebuttal to all of the acupuncturists out there who claim this book is unethical and dangerous.

I am a graduate of a 4000 hr accredited oriental medical masters degree in the USA I speak from the background of having attended two years of chiropractic college serving as the TA in the dissection lab for a year, completing an accredited US oriental medicine masters degree and then most recently graduating as a doctor of veterinary medicine.

First I would like to point out that no profession identifies itself by the tools it uses, but rather by the mission that profession claims to achieve in society. It really doesn’t matter whether it is designing houses or manicuring fingernails, you use whatever tools you have to get the job done. Its the job you are trying to get done that defines your profession, not the tools you use. If the truth were otherwise then we would have to say that architects (or accountants and writers for that matter) stopped being architects long ago when they jettisoned pencil, paper and drawing board for computer drafting programs. In a similar vein, by the argument presented here by acupuncturists, use of a computer as a tool can be the trademark of only one profession, and therefore everyone using a computer, regardless of how they define themselves professionally, is attempting to perform computer programming without proper training. This argument makes me wonder about something as a simple as a saw. Do only carpenters have a right to use a saw, or is it only lumberjacks? Should the orthopedic surgeon be denied use of a saw since obviously he wasn’t trained as a carpenter and truly can’t possibly have the training and experience necessary to use what is essentially a carpenters tool. “Only carpenters should rightfully use saws; anything else is unethical and dangerous.” “Only computer programmers should ethically be allowed to use computers.” Do these statements sound logical?

So lets look at oriental medicine training in the USA. Yes it is typically 3000 to 4000 classroom and clinic hours. Lets be honest though; the vast majority of that time has nothing to do with needling safety and very little if any to do with triggerpoint location or needling, which is what dry needling mostly concerns itself with. Oriental medicine training entails many many of hours studying traditional Chinese medical theory, traditional Chinese medical diagnostics, and herb and herb formula characteristics and their application to various traditionally defined Chinese medicine syndromes. Even acupuncture training is largely about memorizing the location and the effects of the various acupuncture points couched in traditional medical terms. The time spent on needling safety is minimal. I was taught on day one of my acupuncture class how to maintain sterility while opening a needle packet, how to clean the skin with an alcohol swab, how to properly dispose of a used needle in a “sharps container,” and I was given a simple warning not to use a needle if I dropped it on the floor! Its hardly rocket science and doesn’t require years of apprenticeship from master acupuncturists. The National Clean Needle Exam we all have to take was nothing more than a rehash of these very basic and very logical sterile protocols. Anyone who has ever taken a microbiology lab course could reason it out on their own.

So what is the real safety issue here that makes it so unethical for MD’s, DC’s and PT’s to undertake dry needling? Well as I have said, the sterile protocol issue is pretty simple and easily covered in a half hour. Let’s face it though, most graduates of a graduate level medical program have been exposed to sterile technique. Here’s my experience as a vet student: as a 3rd year vet student I had to scrub in and observe surgery many times, as well as perform surgery. I can tell you that the surgeons and nurses were extremely anal about sterile technique. I was humiliated in front of a whole class when I accidentally touched the sleeve of my gown to the table. In front of everyone I was forced to leave the room, ungown, rescrub and regown while my surgery group stood waiting for ten minutes and all the other groups got on with their business. I imagine MD’s have the same level of sterile technique drilled into them. On the other hand, while we were taught sterile technique in acupuncture training, I was also involved with Japanese acupuncture training in school. In these seminars I was taught to hold the shaft of the needle between the ungloved left fingers placed against the point. We were also taught to use the same needle to insert superficially at various points consecutively. I know well trained Japanese-style acupuncturist in my area that saves the clients’ silver needles in little envelopes in their file and reuses them on the same patient from week to week with no sterilization! So much for sterile technique and safety among acupuncturists.

The other important issue with needling safely is adequate knowledge of anatomy. Having been through anatomy training in chiropractic college and vet school, I can tell you that what passed for anatomical training at my oriental medicine masters program was far inferior. The other two programs required a year of careful cadaver dissection up to 10 hours a week. Acupuncture anatomy training was mainly from books with a cursory look in “lab” at some cadaver prosections done by other people. If I had to pick between MD’s, DC’s, PT’s and acupuncturists, I would trust the acupuncturist the least to know what structures lie underneath the needle. Dry Needling for Manual Therapists PDF

Triggerpoint-based dry needling primarily requires two things in order to be done safely and well, anatomic knowledge and good palpation skills. I have covered anatomical knowledge already. As to palpation, all but one of my oriental medicine teachers were educated in Taiwan or mainland China and the lone exception was from India. I was consistently and severely chastised by those teachers for ever palpating an acupuncture point to decide where to needle. I was told this was viewed in China as a sign of incompetence and lack of skill. Most of my patients in student clinic were Chinese as well, so the teachers were probably right that my point palpation caused a bit of insecurity among that patient population, being accustomed as they were to doctors merely inserting needles quickly and succinctly, sometimes even right through the clothing. Since I was studying Chinese medicine, and my teachers were all trained in China, many with advanced degrees far above the level of western practitioners and teachers, I can only assume that their attitude on palpation skills is a standard professional attitude. Yet palpation is the very essential skill needed to safely and effectively perform “dry needling” protocols at a professional level. Quite obviously, from my experience, palpation is not deemed as a necessary skill at all by highly educated doctors at the top levels of Chinese medicine. This really starts to make Dry Needling sound like a completely different undertaking than Acupuncture. MD’s board certified in physical medicine spend a great deal of time developing palpation skills pursuant to triggerpoint location and needling. PT’s and chiropractors learn palpation as an essential skill in their professions, and when they take dry needling courses, palpation is emphasized. In TCM-oriented acupuncture programs, it most certainly is not.3

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