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The picture at left is a common scene in football, especially in early season games. Typically wide receivers and running backs suffer from sudden, debilitating calf cramps. Once they begin, they are very difficult to rid of and the player is typically out for the rest of the game, or significantly hobbled with recurrent spasms. Marathon runners and triathletes can develop spasms also, usually later in a longer race. Football and marathon running are very different stresses, but research...

A useful way to learn about and understand a technique such as trigger point dry needling is to read through some case examples. This can allow you to get an idea as to whether dry needling could help you. Following are two actual case examples of patients treated in our clinic with a description of how needling is blended into other manual physical therapy treatment.

The first patient is a 38 year old Ironman distance female triathlete. She came to the clinic complaining of right...

I recently became among the first physical therapists trained and certified in the State of Wisconsin to provide dry needling to our clients. Dry needling is an exciting new addition to our treatment services that has allowed me to facilitate some rapid and lasting positive changes with our patients as an extension of the manual treatment we have provided in the past.

In 2009, the Wisconsin Physical Therapy Examining Board approved dry needling as falling within the scope of practice...

By Gregg Fuhrman, MPT, OCS, CFMT, CSCS originally posted on March 9, 2010 12:38 PM

Cycling is primarily an endurance sport with the major energy contribution coming from aerobic energy production. Resistance training, or weight lifting, is primarily an anaerobic activity characterized by short bursts of high intensity work. At first glance it would appear that these two activities are at the opposite ends of the fitness spectrum. In fact, Chris Carmichael, personal coach to Lance...