Description

Dry Needling – Foundation Course

Venue: AUT North Campus

Tutor: Trevor Montgomery

Dates/times:

• Saturday 24 June 2023 8.00am - 5.00pm
• Sunday 25 June 2023 8.00am - 3.30pm
• A.U.T North Shore Campus. The map of the Campus can be found here. NB: carparking is free at AUT on weekends.
  
• Room: AA127

Please bring a towel and shorts for both days

This foundation course taught by Trevor Montgomery, in association with PAANZ, is suitable for all physiotherapists wishing to expand their clinical reasoning and treatment skill sets with the use of dry needling. The course has a large practical component with particular emphasis on safe needling practice as set out in the latest PAANZ safety guidelines.

The course is an introduction to Dry Needling, learning to needle major muscle groups in all areas of the body but focused looking at conditions such as Achilles Tendonosis, Shoulder Impingement and SIJ dysfunctions. As we look at each of these conditions we teach you how to needle trigger points in the muscles that may be dysfunctional in those conditions and then look at how to rehab the conditions using exercises/stretches that Trevor has developed. The Foundation Course teaches you to needle most major muscle groups in the body safely and plenty to take back and use with patients on Monday morning! However we do not needle over the thorax in the Foundation Course because of the risk of pneumothorax. Needling muscles over the thorax is considered more advanced and therefore is included in the Advanced Upper Limb Course.

The course is designed to help practitioners integrate dry needling into their clinical approach with a view to addressing the underlying causes of some of the more common clinical presentations we treat. Having taught over 120 introductory and advanced courses for AUT, PAANZ, the APA of Australia and Asia over the last 9 years. Trevor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his teaching in this specialty area.

No pre-requisite to attending this course.

Non PAANZ members and non PNZ members are welcome.

Please email paanz@physiotherapy.org.nz with any queries.

Pricing

PAANZ member rate $600 please click here for discount code
PNZ member rate $700
Non PNZ member rate $850

*Please Note: All attendees must be registered in New Zealand and have a current APC.

After registering, you will receive a separate Confirmation Email.