Main instructor Frank Timmermans has 40 years of experience as a Physical and Manual Therapist and has been teaching dry needling courses for 18 years.
He published several articles about myofascial pain and dry needling and, together with his teams, instructed many physical therapists.
Please click on the links for more information:
- Recommendations for the safe application of dry needling - Dutch Association of Physiotherapy - co-author Feb 2022 (Dutch)
- Paravertebraal meten is zeker weten - Reactie op ‘Prikletsel door dry needling' - FysioPraxis sept 2019 (Dutch)
- Congres 2018: 'Myofascial pain and dry needling: further evidence'
- Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geriatriefysiotherapie Juni 2018 (Dutch)
- Myofascial pain: an update - Physioscience 2014; 10(3): 106-114 (English)
- Physiological effects of Dry Needling - Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2013 Aug;17(8):348 - co-author (English)
- Dryneedling bij acute aspecifieke lage rugpijn - FysioPraxis november 2012 - fellow author (Dutch)
- Hoofdpijn: analyse van de myofasciale component - InFysio magazine november 2011 (Dutch)
- Hernieuwde interesse in spieren binnen de manuele therapie - Movemens magazine sept 2009 (Dutch)
- Analyse van MPS deel 2 - 'Therapie' - Tijdschrift voor Kinesitherapie mei 2008 (Dutch)
- Analyse van MPS deel 1 - 'Onderzoek' - Tijdschrift voor Kinesitherapie februari 2008 (Dutch)
- Aktueller Stand der Uberlegungen zum myofaszialen Schmerzsyndrom - PhysioScience 2006 (German)
- Artikel over MPS en Dry Needling - InFysio magazine december 2006 (Dutch)
- Artikel MPS casuïstiek - FysioPraxis maart 2005 (Dutch)
Conferences organized by Frank Timmermans:
2018: Myofascial pain and dry needling: further evidence.
2017: Dry Needling Myofascial Trigger Points in the Matrix of Sensitization and Chronic Pain: Evaluation and Treatment of the Facilitated Segment
2016: Myofascial pain and dry needling: the ongoing evidence
2014: Myofascial pain and dry needling: the latest trends with more evidence.
2013: Myofasciale pijn en dry needling: ‘evidence’ en de dagelijkse praktijk.
For more information please contact:
Uplands Physiotherapy Clinic - 136 Oliver Place - Penticton, B.C. Canada V2A 0H1
Tel: +12507703235 - E-mail: uplandsphysio@shaw.ca