cover image - Dry Needling, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323876940
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 310
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $80.99

Dry Needling, 3rd Edition

by Jan Dommerholt, PT, DPT, MPS and César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, PT, PhD, Dr. SciMed

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cover image - Dry Needling, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323876940
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 310
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $80.99
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Written and edited by international experts, Dry Needling: An Evidence and Clinical-Based Approach, 3rd Edition, is the most up-to-date and authoritative reference available on this expanding practice. Used by students and healthcare professionals worldwide, this sought-after text has set the standard on the many aspects of dry needling of trigger points, fascia and scar tissue, neurological dry needling for spasticity, and other techniques. Thoroughly revised and illustrated in full color, this unique resource is useful for students and physiotherapists, chiropractors, myotherapists, acupuncturists, osteopaths, and athletic trainers—anyone who wishes to use dry needling to effectively reduce acute and chronic pain in their patients, as well as improve motor performance, range of motion, and strength.
    • Offers a comprehensive review of all aspects of dry needling, including an evidence-informed update of the current knowledge base of myofascial pain and trigger points
    • Provides meticulously updated information throughout, including detailed clinical guidelines and more images of muscle anatomy and referred pain patterns
    • Contains numerous new chapters: A Broad Perspective of Dry Needling; Intramuscular Electrical Stimulation: Theory and Clinical Applications; Dry Needling of Athletes; Canine and Equine Myofascial Pain and Dry Needling; and more

  • Part 1: Basis of Trigger Point Dry Needling
    1. Basic concepts of myofascial trigger points:
    Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Jan Dommerholt
    2. Proposed mechanisms and effects of trigger point dry needling
    Jan Dommerholt, Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas
    3. Dry needling for fascia and scar tissue, tendinopathy and enthesopathy
    Jan Dommerholt, Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas
    4. Dry needling for neurological conditions
    Jaime Salom Moreno, Pablo Herrero-Gallego, Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas
    5. Dry Needling - Safety Guidelines
    Johnson McEvoy
    6. Dry needling across different disciplines
    Jan Dommerholt

    Part 2: Clinical and Evidence-Informed Approach of TrP Dry Needling
    7. Deep Dry Needling of the Head and Neck Muscles
    Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Ana Isabel-de-la-Llave-Rincón, Ricardo Ortega-Santiago
    8. Deep Dry Needling of the Shoulder Muscles
    Carel Bron, Jo Franssen, Betty Beersma, Jan Dommerholt
    9. Deep Dry Needling of the Arm and Hand Muscles
    Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Christian Groebli, María Palacios-Ceña, Jose Luis Arias-Buría
    10. Deep Dry Needling of the Trunk Muscles
    Michelle Finnegan, Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Jan Dommerholt
    11. Deep Dry Needling of the Hip and Pelvic Muscles
    Jan Dommerholt, Blair Green
    12. Deep Dry Needling of the Leg and Foot Muscles
    Orlando Mayoral del Moral, Jan Dommerholt

    Part 3: Other Dry Needling Approaches
    13. Superficial Dry Needling
    Peter Baldry
    14. Dry Needling from a Western Medical Acupuncture Perspective
    Mike Cummings
    15. Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS)
    Steve Goodman, Cory Choma
    16. Fu's Subcutaneous Needling
    Zhonghua Fu, Chou Li-Wei

  • Jan Dommerholt, PT, DPT, MPS, Myopain Seminars, LLC, Bethesda, MD, USA; Bethesda Physiocare, Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA and César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, PT, PhD, Dr. SciMed, Professor, Department of PT, OT, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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