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Trigger Point Dry Needling

An Evidence and Clinical-Based Approach

  • 2nd Edition - June 21, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jan Dommerholt, César Fernández-de-las-Peñas
  • Language: English

Since the publication of the first edition in 2013, the utilization of dry needling in clinical practice has expanded dramatically throughout the world. Indeed, more and more pr… Read more

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Description

Since the publication of the first edition in 2013, the utilization of dry needling in clinical practice has expanded dramatically throughout the world. Indeed, more and more professionals have been using dry needling to effectively reducing acute and chronic pain, as well as improving motor performance, range of motion, and strength.

Following the success of the previous edition, the updated Trigger Point Dry Needling: An Evidence and Clinical-Based Approach remains the first authoritative guide on the market.

With a completely revised text and now full colour illustrations, it provides excellent clarity within content and images for even more uniform and consistent instructions on the needling techniques.

Written and edited by a group of international experts, this is the most-up-to-date resource for physiotherapists, chiropractors, myotherapists, and other professionals as physicians, acupuncturists, osteopaths and athletic trainers.

Key features

  • New chapters on the use of dry needling for Neurological Conditions and dry needling for Fascia, Scar, and Tendon
  • Clinical chapters with new full colour illustrations
  • Worldwide editors and contributors

Readership

Physiotherapists and Manual Therapists

Table of contents

Part 1 Basis of trigger point dry needling

1. Basic concepts of Myofascial Trigger Points (TrPs)

2. Proposed mechanisms and effects of trigger point dry needling

3. Dry Needling for Fascia, Scar, and Tendon

4. Dry Needling for Neurological Conditions

5. Trigger point dry needling: Safety guidelines

6. Dry needling across different disciplines

Part 2: Clinical and Evidence-Informed Approach of TrP Dry Needling

7. Deep dry needling of the head and neck muscles

8. Deep dry needling of the shoulder muscles

9. Deep dry needling of the arm and hand muscles

10. Deep dry needling of the trunk muscles

11. Deep Dry Needling of the Hip and Pelvic Muscles

12. Deep Dry Needling of the Leg and Foot Muscles

Part 3: Other Dry Needling Approaches

13. Superficial dry needling

14. Dry Needling from a Western Medical Acupuncture Perspective

15. Intramuscular stimulation (IMS)

16. Fu’s subcutaneous needling

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 21, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

JD

Jan Dommerholt

Dr Dommerholt is a physiotherapist and Diplomate of the Academy for Integrative Pain Management. He owns two physical therapy clinics in Maryland specializing in the management of individuals with chronic pain conditions including myofascial pain. In addition, Dr Dommerholt is owner of Myopain Seminars, a post-graduate continuing education company offering a wide variety of myofascial pain courses, dry needling courses, TMD and pelvic pain management courses, among others.
Affiliations and expertise
Myopain Seminars, LLC, Bethesda, MD, USA; Bethesda Physiocare, Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA

CF

César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of PT, OT, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain