The Problem with Most Dry Needling Continuing Education Courses

Most dry needling courses teach the mechanical process of how to insert needles into different muscles. Almost no courses teach why poking tissues with sharp objects in this way improves health in the first place. Except our courses! With our unique autonomic nervous system-centered approach to dry needling we specifically focus on targeting, treating, and regulating the autonomic nervous system itself. Because improving autonomic nervous system homeostasis is the primary underlying reason dry needling improves health, rather than making it worse.

Most dry needling CEU programs don’t even mention the autonomic nervous system (ANS). They act as though the nervous system is passive, as though trigger points and tight muscles are causing themselves to dysfunction.

That’s lazy thinking. And it’s why many clinicians feel stuck and symptoms don’t fully resolve.

Our updated online dry needling courses flip this thinking on its head. We focus dry needling treatment on autonomic nervous system regulation. Specifically, depressing chronic sympathetic autonomic nervous system hyperactivity while elevating parasympathetic autonomic activity. Because that autonomic imbalance with chronic sympathetic hyperactivity is the common link behind nearly all chronic mental and physical impairments.

Why Autonomic Nervous System Regulation Must Be a Central Focus to Achieve Optimal Dry Needling Health Outcomes

Chronic Sympathetic Hyperactivity: The Hidden Epidemic

Most patients, most Americans, 90% of them in fact, per the CDC, are living with chronic metabolic dysfunction. More scientifically states, 90% of Americans are living in a state of chronic sympathetic autonomic nervous system hyperactivity. The “fight-or-flight” part of the nervous system running too hot, too long. This undermines sleep, recovery, digestion, immune function, mental health, and healing capacity.

Treating pathologic tissues without specifically targeting the nervous system is like bailing out a boat without ever looking for the hole. What you are doing may temporarily work, but you will never solve the problem. Because you are not addressing the problems cause.

The Parasympathetic Autonomic Nervous System Is the Lever

Our courses teach you to target and activate the parasympathetic, the calming side of the nervous system first. Why? Because this immediately nudges the nervous system in the direction it needs to go to achieve homeostasis. The key to health.

Evidence-Based Outcomes

In our Autonomic Nervous System–Centered Dry Needling article (https://intricateartseminars.com/autonomic-nervous-system-centered-dry-needling-inhibits-age-related-muscle-loss-facilitates-muscle-growth-secondary-to-exercise/), I extrapolate on why focusing dry needling treatment on the autonomic nervous system not only supports muscle growth post-exercise, but also inhibits age-related muscle loss through improving autonomic nervous system homeostasis. We don’t teach recycled talking points. We teach a unique, thoughtful approach to dry needling focused on maximizing autonomic nervous system homeostasis. The key to health.

What’s New in These Courses (vs. Traditional Dry Needling CEUs)

1. Thinking Over Needling
   We don’t show how to needle in our online courses. We teach how to think about needling as neuromodulation. As a brain treatment. You’ll learn to view each needle as a healing signal to the brain and autonomic nervous system.
2. Parasympathetic Dry Needling
   Our online courses teach you how to think about specifically targeting parasympathetic-dominant structures to both elevate parasympathetics and reciprocally inhibit sympathetics. This reduces the initial sympathetic spike from being poked with sharp objects and amplifies the resulting homeostasis. This optimizes treatment outcomes.
3. To Piston or Not to Piston: Advanced Decision-Making
   Many courses either advocate for aggressive pistoning and rigid adherence to treatment protocols. We teach you how to think. Pistoning spikes sympathetic tone and pushes patients vasovagal. We teach autonomic nervous system modulation to prevent that and maximize patient outcomes.
4. Neurophysiologic Deep Dive with Clinical Translation
   You’ll get a deep neurophysiologic and conceptual understanding of dry needling combined with practical direct steps for successful practical application. Check out our “How Dry Needling Works” article for more information about how dry needling works through regulating the autonomic nervous system (https://intricateartseminars.com/how-does-dry-needling-work/)
5. Electric Auricular Vagus Nerve & Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation
   The updated curriculum includes modules on electrical dry needling of the ear (vagus nerve stimulation) and trigeminal nerve stimulation. Both of which magnify parasympathetic activity and reciprocally inhibit sympathetic activity. The exact direction the nervous system needs to go to achieve homeostasis. The key to health.

Sign up Here for our 2 Board-Certified & Accredited Online Dry Needling Courses for CEU Credit: https://intricateartseminars.com/course/dry-needling-online-ceu-courses/