Lumbopelvic Dry Needling (includes pelvic floor)

Intricate Art Lumbopelvic DN is a 2-day, 16-hour introductory course on the application of dry needling to lumbopelvic structures, including the female and male true pelvic floor. Students are not required to expose their pelvic floor in class. We provide live models for students who may be uneasy exposing their pelvic floor. A male and female instructor are present at all Lumbopelvic Dry Needling courses.

This course is for all practitioners, not only pelvic floor specialists. The pelvic floor is often the missing link to resolving those difficult, nagging impairments. We see pelvic floor DN resolve everything from incontinence to headaches. LBP patients often continue to suffer until the pelvic floor is addressed, at which point they fully recover.

This is not your typical pelvic floor needling class. Our course focuses on treating the pelvic floor and associated structures as a means to help improve patient function relating to many impairments, not only pelvic floor impairments, such as incontinence. Low back, knee, stomach, and even shoulder pain and function are often significantly improved following needling of the pelvic floor and associated structures. Pelvic floor needling is essential to achieving maximal potential autonomic nervous system homeostasis. Autonomic homeostasis is vital to improve all health impairments. Throughout the course you will learn the Intricate Art of pelvic floor needling to improve stress, anxiety, pain, athletic performance, and more, relating to any impairment.

Learning how to needle these oft-forgotten about structures can be the difference between success and failure for a wide variety of patients, not just pelvic floor patients. We incorporate the use of pelvic floor DN with a large percentage of our patients, and we are not pelvic floor specialists.

The thoracolumbar spine, abdomen, pelvis and hip joint complex are all essential to treating the pelvic floor and are covered in-depth throughout the course. Cesarean section and mastectomy scar needling, as well as an intro into pelvic manipulation is included. Internal palpation, internal treatment and internal assessment are NOT included in this course.

Throughout the course, we demonstrate and discuss our unique autonomic nervous system-centered approach focused on depressing sympathetic activity, elevating parasympathetic activity, and achieving autonomic nervous system homeostasis. You will walk away with a deep understanding of our needling methodology and how to help any impairment with dry needling, including why electric auricular vagus nerve needling is a key to success.

The gut-brain axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, key players of the autonomic nervous system, are strongly and positively affected by thoughtful needling. You will learn why. Electrical needling is discussed and you will learn why it increases efficacy, pain relief, and comfort of treatment. Advanced neurophysiology is discussed at length in regard to utilizing thoughtful dry needling to positively affect our autonomic nervous system and regulate it toward homeostasis. The key to health.

Note: This course has a laid back, relaxing atmosphere. We feel this is the most enjoyable, beneficial and productive form of instruction. It’s one of the most frequent compliments we have received while teaching in the past and students seem to truly enjoy it.

Instructors:

• Jason Schuster, PT, DPT, MTC, IAMTC, IADN Cert. Specialist
• Angela Carlson, PT, DPT, GCS, IAMTC, IADN Cert. Specialist, ASTYM cert.
• Gabriel Pallante PT, DPT IADN Cert. Specialist

CEUs:

• 16 for PT’s.
• 16 contact hours, 2.7 CEU’s for OT’s
• 16 Category A Live units for ATs.

Fee: $895.

Note: All materials are provided as part of the course cost.

Target Audience: PTs, PTA’s, OT’s, MD’s, ATs, DC’s, PA’s, NP’s, if it is within the scope of practice per your state board or supervising agency.

Prerequisites: State practice act that includes dry needling as being within the scope of practice. Active malpractice insurance.

All purchases are final: On a case-by-case basis, refunds can be given only before class offerings due to a scheduling conflict at the discretion of Intricate Art Spine & Body Solutions, LLC. In this instance, the refund will be made available as a course credit that can be applied to the cost of a future class.