The purpose of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for The Assessment & Dry Needling Treatment of Tendinopathy is to obtain the knowledge and psychomotor skills necessary to visualize joints, muscles and tendons to safely and effectively deliver dry needling treatment.

This 2-day applied-learning course combines live instructor demonstrations with practical hands-on labs. Students participate in small groups of 2 -3 clinicans working together to  obtain reliable and reproducible US images that are evaluated by the instructor with individual feedback provided. Supervised lab sessions are performed to safely and effectively visualize, and deliver dry needle treatment to pathologic tendons and other soft tissue structures.

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1. Demonstrate the application of the 5 P’s of MSK ultrasound in a given body part in labs and during the practical examination.
2. Discuss the current research on the benefits of percutaneous needle tenotomy for a given case study example.
3. Independently demonstrate competence and safe technique in dry needling tendons while utilizing ultrasound.
4. Demonstrate and produce images practicing scanning protocol for the shoulder and other specific tendons for the upper and lower extremities during lab sessions.
5. Demonstrate the normal sonographic anatomy of the shoulder and various tendons of the upper and lower extremities during lab sessions.
6. Demonstrate in and out of plane ultrasound guided dry needling techniques for a given musculoskeletal condition.
7. Demonstrate ultrasound guided dry needling treatments for tendons of the upper and lower extremities for a given case study.

Prior DN training/experience is required. Your training can be with a different continuing education provider, you do not need to be trained specifically by  IDN.