About GEMt

Our Company

GEMt directors and instructors have been presenting lectures internationally for several years now and the Dry Needling courses have been very well received.  The courses will benefit manual therapists and clinicians who work with patients and athletes suffering acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions.  In 2007 Edo Zylstra and Robert De Nardis officially started GEMt - Global Education of Manual Therapists currently located in the United States and Australia.  Currently they are the only instructors for GEMt but they look forward to the addition of more instructors for various manual therapy courses and topics to GEMt in the future.

Our Directors and Instructors

Edo Zylstra PT, MS, IMSp
Physical Therapist (USA), Director of GEMt-US

Edo Zylstra currently practices as a PT and is co-owner of Sport and Spine Physical Therapy, Brighton in Colorado. He received his degree in physical therapy from Regis University in Denver, CO. He spent over four years working in a chronic pain clinic specializing in manual therapy utilizing intramuscular stimulation (IMS), and trigger point dry needling. He received his certification for dry needling from The Institute for the Study and Treatment Of Pain (iSTOP) in Vancouver, British Columbia. He then took a second training course through Pain and Rehabilitation in Bethesda, Maryland,  where he learned Travell & Simon's techniques for diagnosis and treatment of myofascial pain and trigger points. Edo was instrumental in the process of getting trigger point dry needling accepted as a treatment technique within the scope of practice for physical therapists in Colorado and has been instructing both Level I and Level II TDN courses since 2006. In 2007 he joined Robert De Nardis to develop and instruct the TDN courses in Australia.  In 2008 Edo and Robert founded GEMt - Global  Education of Manual Therapists located internationally in the United States and Australia.

 

Robert De Nardis
Physiotherapist (AUS) , Director of GEMt-Aus

Robert De Nardis is an experienced practicing Melbourne Physiotherapist who has an extensive background in two defined areas.  Firstly, as the director of Sandringham Sports Medicine, he has been involved with sporting athletes and teams at all levels.  Secondly, as the director of the Melbourne Whiplash Centre he has been actively engaged in whiplash evaluation, treatment and research since 1998.  He received certification for dry needling from The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain (iSTOP) in Vancouver, British Columbia and has extensively utilized IMS/Trigger Point Dry Needling in his clinics in Melbourne, Australia.  Robert is a recognized expert in the field of cervical spine rehabilitation, having served as a panel member of the International Whiplash Force.