Public Health Ministry hosts four day training for dry-needling

Jul 07, 2019 News

The Disabilities Commission under the Ministry of Public Health, is hosting a four-day training session with physiotherapists so that they could be educated on how to execute and apply dry-needling to their patients.

Participants at the Dry Needling training session

Currently, there is only one physiotherapist in Guyana with the relevant training and certificates to execute this type of therapeutic restoration to health.
Dry needling is a treatment technique whereby a sterile, single-use fine filament needle is inserted into the muscles to assist with decreasing pain and improving function through the release of myofascial trigger points, or what is commonly known as knots in the muscles.
Dry needling is not the same as acupuncture, although there are similarities between the two techniques. The main difference between dry needling and acupuncture is the theory behind why the techniques work.
Dry needling is focused primarily on the reduction of pain and restoration of function through the release of myofascial trigger points in muscle. In comparison, acupuncture focuses on the treatment of medical conditions by restoring the flow of energy through key points in the body (meridians) to restore balance.
Seventeen physiotherapists from Georgetown, West Coast Demerara, Lethem and Berbice will be trained. They will be coached by Dr. Mahir Somaiha from New Jersey, who is part of the Everything Therapy Group; an organization which is based in a plethora of countries across the globe.
This training will be separated into four parts; two were completed yesterday. Part three will entail the participants having to write an examination. If they are successful, then they would be certified to train others and complete their course. After completion, all 17 physiotherapists will receive certificates.
Training sessions, which run for nine hours a day will conclude on Tuesday at the Georgetown Club.
Ariane Mangar, Director of the Disabilities Commission, said, “This is an upgrading, educating and continuing course, and since the world is moving at a fast rate, institutions especially those in the health sector, should keep up with them.”
Mangar noted that this training will not be conducted every year because it is expensive. This four-day training, according to Mangar cost the Ministry over $6 millions.
She said that the Health Ministry would have to raise more money again to conduct another session.

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