Dry Needling for Plantar Fasciitis: A Case Study

Instructor

Jacqueline Doidge

PT

Jackie trained in Canada, Jackie has worked as a physical therapist for 46 years specializing in orthopaedics, chronic pain, manual therapies and since 2018, pelvic rehab. She lived in South Africa from 1983 to 1993, and began studying dry needling and medical acupuncture with Claire Waumsley in 1985. Jackie spent 5 years as a lecturer with the University of Cape Town teaching manual techniques, including trigger point therapy, to physiotherapy undergraduates. She has studied superficial dry needling under Dr. Peter Baldry and IMS with Dr. Chan Gunn. For the past 26 years, she has lived in Tucson, Arizona, and has helped to bring dry needling to a large hospital system there. She began bringing ODNS lecturers to teach dry needling courses in the US in 2013, and began teaching the ODNS courses in 2015. Since that time she has taught throughout the US, in Kenya, Oman, UAE, Romania and Bulgaria. ODNS partners with IAOM-US to present their courses in North America; Jackie is a faculty member with IAOM-US and has taken the lead in bringing dry needling to practitioners in the US

Description

1 Contact Hour – 0.1 CEU This course is designed to cater to the needs of the advanced practitioner who want to hone their skills, share and discuss cases, and hear about the most recent research developments. Target group: PT, OT, NP, L.Ac, PA’s, DC’s, DO’s, MD’s. Who can attend? Anyone who is interested in the treatment of Plantar Fasciitis with the Dry Needling modality. However, only licensed practitioners who have completed Level I and 2 ODNS courses, or the equivalent training in dry needling from other APTA approved dry needling courses, may practice the techniques discussed. Education Level: Basic

Objectives

• Ability to apply clinical practice guidelines for plantar fasciitis
• Be aware of the relevant recent literature
• Justify the use of dry needling in the case
• Explain the relevance of subjective and objective clinical findings
• Be able to use a decision tree based on patient’s unique story and apply evidence-based guidelines to create treatment plan
• Be able to integrate all treatments, including dry needling, to accelerate recovery
• Identify differential diagnosis and suggest further intervention needed.