Andrew Hutton is an APA Titled Sports Physiotherapist in private practice at Sports Point ,Ballina, NSW, Australia.
He has utilized acupuncture in his management of a mainstream sporting and musculoskeletal clientele since 1990. The use of various needling techniques has, to a large extent, replaced the use of electrotherapy agents at the clinic and has reduced the majority of the “hand breaking” manual therapy techniques commonly used in such a clinical setting preserving the therapists highly skilled hands for more subtle techniques.
He completed the APA acupuncture training programme in 1990 and has lectured on the APA Acupuncture training programme since 1997.
Andrew initially developed “bridging” workshops in musculoskeletal acupuncture to meet the demands of physiotherapists with traditional acupuncture training to assist them in incorporating acupuncture into a physiotherapy clinic setting. .This material has largely been incorporated into the current APA Acupuncture training programme and is always well received.
Andrew has studied in China and continues to study in Australia with teachers of meridian therapy (a traditional Japanese approach to acupuncture) from Japan. He also remains current with advances in Western Scientific Acupuncture and the major approaches to dry needling . He enjoys the balance of traditional oriental medicine and biomechanics based physiotherapy.
Recently Andrew became aware that the dry needling was being presented in a simplistic and one dimensional way in courses and workshops. Knowing that there were many refined techniques and diverse approaches available, especially to the manual therapist, he was motivated to develop the dry needling plus + workshops .