Sonya Worth
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Joined: Feb 14, 2020
Last seen: Dec 20, 2025
Topics: 0 / Replies: 23
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RE: Looking for someone in integrative dry needle in Boston

Sonja Go to the IDN directory: type in the zip code for your son's location and see clinicians trained in IDN in that zip code. I have perso...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Dry Needling for arm lymphedema

Hi Ariel In the absence of any advanced training in lymphedema, we recommend our providers know their patient's medical history and avoid needling t...

1 month ago
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RE: Blood sugar drop after needling

Hi Samantha I heard this same report from a course participant at an Advanced course I was teaching last weekend. One of their college athletes is a...

1 month ago
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RE: Drying Needling for Scar Mobility - Post-op Time Frame

Hi Sarah Surgical scars should be well healed before dry needling the scar or the immediate surrounding tissue. Consult with the surgeon if the pa...

2 years ago
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RE: Scar treatment following surgery

Hi Krista Surgical scars should be well healed before dry needling the scar or the immediate surrounding tissue. Consult with the surgeon if the p...

2 years ago
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RE: DN for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Danny, if you have attended the IDN Advanced Dry Needling course, I would suggest cervical plexus needling at the anterior neck and axilla in addition...

4 years ago
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RE: Childhood- osgood schlatter's

Hi Jackie, I do not have any specific evidence to share with you. I can share my personal experience treating my own daughter's osgood schlatter's kne...

4 years ago
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RE: spondylolisthesis

When in doubt anywhere in the spine, be certain of your palpation of bony landmarks (spinous processes and transverse processes), shorten the needle i...

4 years ago
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RE: Chronic Leukemia

I have no experience dry needling patients with co-existing leukemia diagnoses. Consider discussing your plan of care with the patient's haem/oncologi...

4 years ago
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RE: Morton's Neuroma

I have had some success calming the neurogenic inflammation using dry needling following the neurology and also needling between the metatarsals at th...

5 years ago
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RE: Scoliosis

Hi Danielle I would advise you to be thorough with your palpation of each and every spinous process and transverse process to be absolutely certain yo...

5 years ago
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RE: Grade III A-C separation

Hi James and Nick I would approach an acute injury just as Nick did. Start with superficial needling in the area of injury , add homeostatics in the r...

5 years ago
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RE: Eliquis and dry needling

Hi Chris Since eliquis is a blood thinner, dry needling would be a "precaution" not an absolute contra indication. I personally always check with the ...

5 years ago
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RE: Breast scar tissue from reduction

HI! Looks like the case study pdf is too large to attach here. Here is the reference: Bell, L., Stout, N. L., & Geiser, M. B. (2019). Dry Needli...

5 years ago
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