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Dry Needling

ICE Dry Needling

(CERT-DN ES)

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This is not your “hunt and peck” DN series. This dry needling certification is completely reimagined, comprehensive, and contemporary. Get ready to leverage 6 channel e-stim protocols that match perfectly with the intention of your treatment: pain relief, neuromuscular facilitation, recovery, and more. This certification STARTS with mastering the basics – relevant anatomy and specific muscle needling; but then moves into case-based protocols to ensure you know the “who, when, and why”, not just the psychomotor skill. At completion of this certification you will be able to identify patient presentations that pair with specific needle placement and e-stim setting protocols to maximize clinical outcomes.

Why Choose DNES Certification?

Applicability

Comprehensive E-Stim Education

Learn strategies to leverage e-stim for a wide variety of clinical intentions. Every ICE dry needling course provides a 6 channel unit at each table ensuring loads of repetitions on this invaluable piece of equipment.
Contemporary Practice

Contemporary Practice

Move well beyond “muscle only” application and into the world of applying e-stim to peripheral nerves and more. Our “Advanced” course is exactly that, the course where you get to explore the very forefront of needling research and clinical application.
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Needling is important, but is only as good as the follow-up loading strategies you pair it with. You can expect to learn comprehensive strategies for each patient walking into your doors and understand how needling fits into a multi-modal fitness-forward approach.

Three Live Weekend Courses

Course Curriculum and Requirements

N

Lower Body DN

Offered 20+ times per year

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Upper Body DN

Offered 20+ times per year

N

Advanced DN

Capstone course focused on elevated techniques beyond muscular needling. Must have completed Lower and Upper DN.

What Others Are Saying

What Others Are Saying

I highly recommend Dry Needling courses with the ICE team. They are all do a great job of combining evidence based research with clinical experience to present a well rounded view point of dry needling. I will be taking as many ICE courses as I can in the future!

Carol L.

Great course, immediately used this in for in clinic on Monday! The estim application is a game changer for patients!

Dry needling was already a major strategy to improve our athletes’ recovery, performance, and tissue health. After taking this ICE course, I believe we will be able to enhance those strategies even further for the benefit of our athletes.

Ian L.

I recently had the privilege of attending the lower quarter dry needling course, and I can’t express how transformative the experience was. The course was expertly structured, providing a seamless blend of theoretical knowledge and practical hands-on application. The instructors were not only highly skilled but also incredibly personable, fostering a comfortable learning environment that encouraged active participation and questions. Through their guidance, I gained a deep understanding of the lower quarter musculature and trigger points, and I was amazed by the immediate positive impact dry needling had on addressing pain and dysfunction. This course has not only elevated my clinical skills but also instilled a newfound confidence in providing effective treatment options for my patients. I wholeheartedly recommend this course to any healthcare professional looking to enhance their practice and make a real difference in patient care.

Kerry C.

One of the quotes shared at the beginning of the class was powerful. Something to the effect of ‘DN has been around for 40yrs, its time to start treating like it.’ What followed for the next two days was a dedicated effort to needling with a level of clinical reasoning and specificity that I did not know existed. I am glad I spent the time and money to attend this course, and will be recommending it to all of my colleagues.

Landon P.

I would recommend this course and crew to anyone, it has definitely changed the way that I practice.
Exceptional course to take complex history of needling and bring it to the forefront of evidence based care with practical direct effectiveness in the clinic on Monday. Stick it, shock it, load it gang!
This was both my first dry needling and ICE course. I found it to be so worthwhile with significant clinical use.

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About This Certification

3 Live Courses

Choose between 2- or 3-day courses in order to best satisfy your needs and state requirements.

Assessment

Each course has a skills competency assessment built in to ensure safety and psychomotor competence.

Testing

Each course has a written exam to ensure retention of key knowledge and application strategies.
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Year Or Less

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

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Who can attend this class?

Only individuals with an active healthcare license who have the authority to perform dry needling granted by their state’s scope of practice can attend this course. In general, this limits dry needling to physical therapists, occupational therapists, physicians, chiropractors, and athletic trainers. You are ultimately responsible for knowing the laws that apply to you based on the state that you practice in.

Do I have to be needled?

In order to receive our dry needling certification, it is required that you receive dry needling as it is important to understand the experience in order to reassure and educate patients. Additionally, having dry needling performed on you gives invaluable insight on how slight technique alterations can significantly affect the client experience.

I’m pregnant, can I still attend?

Yes! If for medical reasons you are unable to receive needles you’ll need to bring another participant for you to practice with throughout the weekend.

Should I choose the 2 or 3 day course?

Often clinicians choose the most cost effective option that meets their state’s requirements to allow them to legally perform dry needling. The courses are identical in philosophy, the 3 day course simply offers additional muscular targets, more repetitions with existing protocols, and several bonus case studies to work on clinical reasoning through the lens of dry needling.

Does my state require two or three day courses?

Head to the bottom of this page to review state by state requirements and a map to give a lay of the land across the country!

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