David G. Simons Academy DGSA

17/12/2025

Let's do another anatomy quiz:⁠
Can you identify These muscles?⁠
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👉️ anatomy is essential for dry needling 🤓

12/12/2025

The median nerve passes between the two heads of the pronator teres muscle into the forearm ↙️⁠
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This is, where Trigger points in the pronator teres muscle can cause an entrapment of the median nerve 😫⚡️⁠
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As the entrapment in this area is not such a common condition, it is maybe easily overlooked and mistaken for the more prevalent carpal tunnel syndrome.🕵️⁠
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💡So don't forget to check this muscle in any case, when symptoms in relation to the median nerve occur✔️

09/12/2025

The median nerve is a mixed nerve, that provides motor💪 functions to the forearm, wrist and hand and sensory🪶⚡️function to the hand.⁠
It is the only nerve, that passes through the carpal tunnel and can be compressed there, what can result in a carpal tunnel syndrome.⁠
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The sensory branches of the median nerve provide sensation to the skin of the palmar and dorsal side of the hand and finger - as you can see it in the picture.⁠
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🤫💡So now I have one question for you:⁠
Do you remember, which muscle can cause an entrapment of the median nerve in the area of the upper forearm❓️❔️❓️

05/12/2025

Safety in dry needling is the highest priority for the DGSA ⚠️

That's why it is very important to know, where the course of nerves are running in the body - and that's what we show you at our courses 👈️

As we don't want to hit any nerves with dry needling⚡️

Learn more about safety in dry needling at our courses and in our 100+ dry needling video tutorials 🎞️⁠💪

02/12/2025

Here are the right answers:⁠
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1 Longissimus Muscle✔️⁠
2 Iliocostalis Muscle✔️⁠
3 Latissimus Dorsi Muscle✔️⁠
4 Gluteus Medius Muscle✔️⁠
5 Gluteus Maximus Muscle✔️⁠
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Congratulations 👏🎉 good job!

01/12/2025

Let's have some anatomy! 💪⁠
Can you identify These muscles?⁠
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👉️ Let's go!🤓

02/11/2025

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Üben Sie Dry Needling mit Berufskolleginnen und Berufskollegen unter der Aufsicht von zertifizierten Dry Needling Therapeutinnen bzw. Therapeuten oder DGSA® Dry Needling Instruktorinnen bzw. Instruktoren. Repetieren Sie herausfordernde Techniken, tauschen Sie Erfahrungen aus, sprechen Sie klinische Probleme an und diskutieren Sie Richtlinien sowie evidenzbasierte Literatur. Voraussetzung für die Aufnahme in einen Qualitätszirkel ist die Teilnahme an mindestens einem Dry Needling-Kurs.

Üben Sie Dry Needling mit Berufskollegen unter der Aufsicht eines zertifizierten DGSA® Dry Needling Therapeuten oder DGSA® Dry Needling Instruktors.

20/10/2025

The 🆕updated Swiss Guidelines for Safe Dry Needling (V3) set the global 🌍️ standard for safe and responsible Dry Needling practice — now available in English, French, Italian, and German.⁠
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These guidelines protect both patients and practitioners — and ultimately, they save lives.⁠
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👉 Read them now at:⁠
https://www.dgs-academy.com/fileadmin/documents/Swiss_Guidelines_for_safe_DryNeedling_3.0_English.pdf

15/10/2025

👉️Here you see the referred pain⚡️ pattern of the rhomboideus muscle.

Trigger points in this muscle can provide pain in the interscapular region and along of the medial border of the scapula - like a «Superficial Backache»😣

So beside other muscles in this area, check🔎 the rhomboideus muscle for your patients with interscapular pain👍️

11/10/2025

A bit of Anatomy💪🤔

The rhomboideus muscle has its origin📍 at the spinous processes from C7 to T5, and inserts📍 at medial border of the scapula.

👉️ It is therefore one of the "interscapular" muscles and has multiple functions in this region, such as:

🔹adduction and elevation of the scapula,
🔹downward rotation of the scapula, means that the glenoid fossa goes downward,
🔹stabilization of the scapula in retraction,
🔹prevention of winging of the scapula,
🔹rotation of the spine to the opposite side,
🔸and as bilateral action: extension of the spine.

08/10/2025

🤫👉️Here you see how we treat rhomboideus muscle in side lying position on the ipsilateral side.

⚠️It is important, that in this position, the scapula is winged enought❗️

Like that and with the correct✔️ needle direction away from the thorax, the lung, as the main precaution, is safe🦺👍️

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100+ videos accessable via Desktop, Mobile and App!

02/10/2025

Dry Needling Anatomy 👉️Here is the answer:

1 median nerve✔️⁠
2 ulnar nerve✔️⁠
3 radial nerve✔️⁠
4 musculocutaneous nerve✔️⁠
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Congratulations 👏🎉 good job!