Foundations in Dry Needling
Your dry needling education starts here. This 3-day introductory level course will give you everything you need to apply dry needling and dry needling with electrical stimulation safely and effectively to multiple regions across the body.
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Foundations in Dry Needling is a 3-day lecture and lab-based course, with online and in-person learning, for a thorough introductory experience with dry needling. This course provides instruction in anatomy, neurophysiology, safe needle handling, and technical factors to develop safe and effective dry needling skill. With additional emphasis on clinical reasoning and use of electrical stimulation with dry needling learners will have a contemporary and targeted approach for most effective dry needling with optimal outcomes. This course covers dry needling for multiple regions across the body.
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With 27 hours of in-person learning and 7 hours of online instruction this course qualifies for 34 contact hours.
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Active Licensure in PT (*), OT, AT, DC, RN, NP, PA, MD, DO
*DPT students in their final year of instruction or final clinical rotations may be accepted. Please contact us for consideration.
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This course is designed for practitioners across many disciplines. It is important for any practitioner to be familiar with their specific scope of practice as this varies across disciplines and across states or provinces.
Physical Therapists (*)
Occupational Therapists
Athletic Trainers
Chiropractors
Physicians
Physician Assistants
Registered Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
*DPT students in their final year of instruction or final clinical rotations may be accepted. Please contact us for consideration.
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$1249
Upcoming Courses
Boulder-Louisville December 20-22, 2024
$1249
Aurora CO January 24-26, 2025
$1249
Aurora CO February 21-23, 2025
$1249
Aurora CO March 28-30, 2025
$1249
Leavenworth, KS May 16-18, 2025
$1249
Aurora, CO May 30-June 1, 2025
$1249
Salt Lake City UT September 5-7, 2025
$1249
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Meet the Team
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Mia Ramsey
Mia has practiced physical therapy since 2002 when she graduated with her DPT from Northern Arizona University. She has an extensive background in outpatient orthopedics and a specialty in prenatal and postpartum populations. Across ages and activity levels, and from simple to complex, Mia loves the challenge of treating anyone who comes through her door. She has been utilizing dry needling with electrical stimulation in practice since 2011 and has been a Senior Lead Instructor in post-professional dry needling education courses since 2013. She is passionate about sharing dry needling with other health care providers to help them transform their clinical practices. Mia lives in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband. They have two lovely daughters and two crazy doodle-mix dogs. Mia is an active member of APTA .
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Keri Maywhort
Keri is an experienced manual therapist who began incorporating dry needling with electrical stimulation into clinical practice in 1998. Currently, she serves as an adjunct faculty member at Regis University where she is involved with dry needling education in the entry-level DPT program, residency, and fellowship. She has served in post-professional dry needling education as a Senior Lead Instructor, Director of Education and Certification Program Director where she focused on the development of dry-needling curriculum, course content and training and development of dry-needling faculty members. Outside of work her passion is raising a beautiful daughter, and as a native Coloradan she is an enthusiast of all that the Colorado landscape has to offer. She is an active member of APTA and AAOMPT.