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This year Leigh McCutcheon was invited to present as a key note speaker for the APA Acupuncture and Dry Needing Conference along with Jay Shah from Washington and Jorgen Forsberg from Australia. Leigh presented a pre conference workshop on Whiplash which covered a literature review outlining the multimodal treatment approach for Whiplash Associated Disorder and […]

The ADNG conference will be held along with the Sports Physiotherapy Conference and the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Conference in October 2015 on the Gold Coast. Leigh McCutcheon will be presenting to the Acupuncture and Dry Needling Group the latest evidence base for needling therapies. Presently approximately 40% of practicing physiotherapists hold additional training in acupuncture and/or […]

Authors: McCutcheon, Leigh; Yelland, Michael Physical Therapy Reviews, Volume 16, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 126-132(7) Abstract: Background: Pneumothorax is a very rare but serious complication associated with acupuncture and dry needling around the thoracic region. Physiotherapists and other health practitioners should be aware of the risks associated with needling in this region and should take care […]

Acupuncture is generally a very safe modality, especially when it is used by skilled, well trained professionals. This has been evidenced in several very large studies from England, Germany, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia involving prospective assessments of 64,000 consultations in the SAFA studies to around 4 million consultations in the GERAC studies. Even though it is […]

The following case report was presented during the APA Conference week held in Cairn’s in October, 2007 as part of the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia program. CASE REPORT: Physiotherapy management incorporating direct acupuncture needling to a large intrasubstance supraspinatus tear. McCutcheon LM1, 2 1Elanora and Robina Physiotherapy Clinics 2Combined Health Acupuncture and Dry Needling Education A […]