Dry Needling For Beginners Course

You will need to be a regulated healthcare professional, or in the final year of training to become a regulated healthcare professional. Unsure if you qualify? Please get in touch via our contact form or on enquiries@breeze.academy (we respond to all queries, usually within the hour).

Online Component:

Prior to the face-to-face component of the course, you will be required to complete a series of safety lessons on our online platform, covering contraindications, precautions and adverse events, as well as learning needle insertion fundamentals and pain physiology. All of our online learning is accessed at your own pace, and is non-live, meaning you can pause, rewind and replay when it suits you.

A critical discussion will be presented on the theoretical underpinnings of the triggerpoint concept and more broadly the physiological responses to needling, as well as the evidence base to date.

Face-to-Face Workshop:

Having undertaken online learning, the face-to-face component will be a fully practical workshop covering needling handling and insertion techniques, identification of pertinent needling locations, integration of segmental needling, and the contextualisation of when and where dry needling could occur and what therapists should combine it with in order to gain maximum impact.

This beginners course takes you through a large number of applications and techniques, allowing you to confidently apply needling for the treatment of:

• Acute or persistent pain, anywhere in the body
• Stress and anxiety
• Overactive bladder
• Hot flushes/flashes
• General wellbeing

Further Online Material:

Following the 3 day face-to-face workshop, further online learning is provided in the form of case studies and multi choice quizzes to help consolidate your learning, making sure you feel confident to apply the learning activities immediately.

On successful completion of a Breeze Academy Dry Needling Beginners Course, course delegates are expected to demonstrate:

• Effective needling techniques upon the four limbs, trunk and spine
• Integration of dry needling into their usual practice
• Suitable identification of prominent and commonly used needling points
• A clinical reasoning basis to the treatment of clients with dry needling
• Knowledge of prominent, pertinent, and up-to-date evidence supporting the use of needling practices
• An understanding of contraindications, precautions and potential side effects of needling practice
• Theoretical knowledge on the safe application of needling at all times
• Effective management of needling side effects

Are you looking to learn a new treatment option, enhance your clinical skills, advance your career, complete valuable CPD hours and offer your clients more? Then this course is exactly what you’ve been looking for.

In terms of clinical background, we have had the pleasure of teaching a large range of professions across the last 10 years, including (but not limited to):

• Physiotherapists
• Osteopaths
• Chiropractors
• Sports Therapists
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Dentists
• Occupational Therapists
• Podiatrists
• Level 4 Sports Massage Therapists

Rest assured we have the experience and technical know-how to put you, the learner, first and ensure that course materials, case studies and practical elements reflect your specific day-to-day practice.

We deliver medical acupuncture and dry needling courses across the globe, and have courses running in every major city in the UK. We are triple-locked quality assured, meaning you can be confident that we offer the very best in education.

Our History, Heritage & Global Reputation

Expertly curated and delivered by Dr. Carl Clarkson and his team of enthusiastic needling tutors, our courses strive to put the learner at the centre of everything we do. We have a rich education and academic background, including MSc, PhD and countless hours delivering exceptional quality learning experiences across the globe.

Our Unique Blend Of Online & Face To Face

Carefully curated online content, both before and after the face-to-face component, allows you access to high quality education whenever and wherever you want – pause, replay and rewind to your heart’s content. We provide the very best in online acupuncture and dry needling training to guarantee that course delegates feel ready and confident when attending their face-to-face training, whilst also providing them with the option to revisit learning in a much more meaningful and engaging format during and after the course.*

Our Exceptional Five-Star Course Reviews

We’re passionate about acupuncture and dry needling, and passionate about delivering exceptional educational experiences. Reflecting this, our acupuncture and dry needling foundation course is consistently rated five-stars and has fantastic reviews. In fact, the majority of our bookings are via recommendations from past attendees! Check out there reviews here.

Our Fully Evidence-Based Approach

We combine the latest research with practical, clinically relevant teaching to ensure you receive a fully evidence-based approach to the implementation of acupuncture and dry needling. This medical acupuncture and dry needling foundation course has clinical reasoning at the heart of delivery, making sure that you’re able to make fully informed decisions on how and when to introduce acupuncture and dry needling into a client’s care package.

*Access to online content available until 1 month after the face-to-face element of the course. 

In line with common standards of acupuncture and dry needling education, there will be a safety test to complete prior to the face-to-face workshop, a practical safety test completed during the face-to-face workshop, and then theoretical case studies with short MCQs completed in Part 2 (which you gain access to once you have completed your face-to-face workshop and have paid for the course in full).

If you've checked over the course information but still have some questions, please get in touch via our contact form or on enquiries@breeze.academy (we respond to all queries, usually within the hour).