The Advanced Chronic Pain Course (3-day) expands on prior courses by integrating IDN’s neurological framework to treat patients with complex chronic pain conditions through linking dry needling mechanisms to the dominant pain mechanism (Nociceptive, Nociplastic, and Neuropathic). IDN’s neurological model provides an adaptive clinical framework to evaluate and treat the complex interplay between the peripheral, central, and autonomic nervous systems. Participants will expand evaluation methods for patients with chronic pain, using evidence-based screening tools, as well as augment the use IDN’s bedside quantitative sensory testing to evaluate the status of the nervous system. Dry needling treatment concepts will be applied to a wide-variety of chronic pain patient cases from athletes to geriatrics. Participants will deepen their understanding of the neuro-inflammatory mechanisms of dry needling to modulate neurogenic inflammation in peripheral tissue, neuro-segmentally, and in the central nervous system. Participants will also expand their neuro-anatomical knowledge incorporating stimulation of the Vagus Nerve for inflammatory and pain reduction. This course will help you develop the most comprehensive and adaptive treatment plan for any patient, from simple to complex.
I have been doing dry needling for 10 years, 2 years ago I took a course by IDN and Frank and the course changed the way I had been needling, and has had such great results on all of the patients. It has opened up so many new ways to utilize needling to treat patients with different diagnoses and see great results.
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