Sarcastic Anatomy – Latissimus Dorsi Scrabble score – 18 points. Super weak for 15 tiles (and assuming spaced words are even legit in Scrabble). Plural – generally the lats are referred to as a singular muscle group and dorsi is already plural, but how cool would it be to say “latissimuses” more often. Hippopotamuses do… Read More Sarcastic Anatomy – Latissimus Dorsi
Sarcastic anatomy – Gastrocnemius Scrabble score – 18 Plural – gastrocnemii. I dare you to use that in a sentence with your patients today. Greek derivation – “gastro-“ = stomach; knḗmē = leg Action – ankle plantarflexion, knee flexion, basically this… Fun Fact – You may recognize this muscle from the 2004 blockbuster hit “Troy” when Brad Pitt (and his beautiful bronzed legs) portrayed Achilles,… Read More SARCASTIC ANATOMY – GASTROCNEMIUS
Our first ‘Featured Clinician’ is a rockstar PT from Houston, TX – Chris Juneau. Aside from being a brilliant clinician, dry needling educator with Kinetacore, and Olympic weight lifting coach – we had the chance to work with Chris in Haiti during our trip with STAND – The Haiti Project. iDryNeedle sent Chris some prying… Read More Chris Juneau PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS – iDryNeedle Featured Clinician July 2017
As a dry needling clinician and educator acknowledging my own education, practical experience, and ultimately my own biases – I’ll try so present this as neutral as possible. Because like many questions on application and dosage, the answer to this question is “it depends”. Depending heavily on our appraisal, expertise, and critical thinking as an… Read More When to treat segmentally – a 2-Minute Dry Needling Tip
Nothing puts more wind in your proverbial blogging “sails” than running in to someone who has read (and enjoyed?) your content. A real person, in real life, telling you they really read and really enjoyed your blog…this really happened! You know who you are, and if lightning strikes twice and you’re reading this again –… Read More Sarcastic Anatomy – Multifidus
Well, CSM has come and gone – a great week of collaboration, networking, education, and camaraderie with fellow PTs, faculty, and students. My partialities quite obviously known, it is fascinating to reflect on the conference and really the status of dry needling and physical therapy nationwide. States becoming battlegrounds over the technique with some… Read More Dry Needling Digest: Journal Club for Dry Needling Clinicians Part II
One of the more common questions on our courses is – “when do I use e-stim with dry needling?”. A fair question, because if you feel dry needling is infantile in terms of clinical research, then use and understanding of intramuscular electrical stim is embryonic. That being said, there has been a dramatic shift towards… Read More #DryNeedling tip from @DPTwithNeedles – 4 reasons to consider stim
Many forget that Flexor Hallicus Longus originates from the posterior aspect of the fibula. This needle (not in picture) is at mid-shaft of the posterior fibula and we can see isolated 1st digit flexion and tendon activation posterior to the medial malleolus. Just another reminder of the intricate pulley system that our musculoskeletal system is… Read More Video – Flexor Hallucis Longus #DryNeedling + stim
An athlete doesn’t necessarily care about their Thomas Test results, but what they DO care about is performance and injury risk. I always find one test, movement, or impairment to immediately re-test – whether it’s pre- and post- dry needling, manual work, or corrective exercise…there should be a noticeable change to them (and me). If… Read More Video – #dryneedling for Thomas Test gains
What?! You can elicit a Localized Twitch Response (LTR) without a needle? Sounds pretty Mr. Myagi hands-on healing to me – but it’s true. Makes me ponder if we have the same neurophysiologic effect from a LTR elicited manually as asserted by the NIH Shah studies; or if the Spontaneous Electrical Activity quieting at… Read More Dry “hand”ling – is the twitch response with manual compression the same as #DryNeedling?
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