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Trigger Point Dry Needling
An Evidence and Clinical-Based Approach
- 1st Edition - January 8, 2013
- Editors: Jan Dommerholt, Cesar Fernandez de las Penas
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 4 5 2 - 5
This exciting new publication is the first authoritative resource on the market with an exclusive focus on Trigger Point ((TrP) dry needling. It provides a detailed and up… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis exciting new publication is the first authoritative resource on the market with an exclusive focus on Trigger Point ((TrP) dry needling. It provides a detailed and up-to-date scientific perspective against which TrP dry needling can be best understood.
The first section of the book covers important topics such as the current understanding and neurophysiology of the TrP phenomena, safety and hygiene, the effect of needling on fascia and connective tissue, and an account on professional issues surrounding TrP dry needling. The second section includes a detailed and well-illustrated review of deep dry needling techniques of the most common muscles throughout the body. The third section of the book describes several other needling approaches, such as superficial dry needling, dry needling from a Western Acupuncture perspective, intramuscular stimulation, and Fu’s subcutaneous needling.
Trigger Point Dry Needling
brings together authors who are internationally recognized specialists in the field of myofascial pain and dry needling.- First book of its kind to include different needling approaches (in the context of evidence) for the management of neuromuscular pain conditions
- Highlights both current scientific evidence and clinicians’ expertise and experience
- Multi-contributed by a team of top international experts
- Over 200 illustrations supporting the detailed description of needling techniques
Physiotherapists / Manual Therapists, PG students
DedicationForeword by Leon ChaitowForeword by Robert D. Gerwin PrefaceAcknowledgements Contributors
PART 1 Basis of trigger point dry needlingChapter 1 Basic concepts of myofascial trigger points (TrPs)César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Jan Dommerholt
Chapter 2 Proposed mechanisms and effects of trigger point dry needling Jan Dommerholt, César Fernández-de-las-Peñas
Chapter 3 Part 1: Effects of acupuncture needling on connective tissue Helene M. LangevinPart 2: Fascia and dry needlingJan Dommerholt
Chapter 4 Trigger point dry needling: safety guidelines Johnson McEvoy
Chapter 5 Professional controversies and dry needlingJan Dommerholt
PART 2 Clinical and evidence-informed approach of TrP dry needlingChapter 6 Deep dry needling of the head and neck musclesCésar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Ana Isabel-de-la-Llave-Rincón, Ricardo Ortega-Santiago, Bárbara Torres-Chica
Chapter 7 Deep dry needling of the shoulder musclesCarel Bron, Jo L.M. Franssen, Betty T.M. Beersma
Chapter 8 Deep dry needling of the arm and hand muscles César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Javier González Iglesias, Christian Gröbli, Ricky Weissmann
Chapter 9 Deep dry needling of the trunk muscles Louise Kelley, Michelle Finnegan, Jan Dommerholt
Chapter 10 Deep dry needling of the hip, pelvis and thigh musclesDawn Sandalcidi, Jan Dommerholt
Chapter 11 Deep dry needling of the leg and foot musclesOrlando Mayoral-del-Moral, María Torres-Lacomba
PART 3 Other dry needling approaches Chapter 12 Superficial dry needling Peter Baldry
Chapter 13 Dry needling from a Western medical acupuncture perspective Mike Cummings
Chapter 14 Intramuscular stimulation (IMS) Steven R. Goodman, Cory B. Choma
Chapter 15 Fu’s subcutaneous needlingZhonghua Fu, Li-Wei Chou
- No. of pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 8, 2013
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- eBook ISBN: 9780702054525
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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
Cesar Fernandez de las Penas
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Dept of PT, OT, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid