TRIGGER POINTS THERAPY
DRY NEEDLING
"The cure for pain is in the pain."
Rumi
WHY IS DRY NEEDLING A GREAT TECHNIQUE FOR PAIN?
4 BENEFITS OF DRY NEEDLING
Inserting an acupuncture-like needle into the trigger point relaxes the muscles, boosts blood flow, diminishes inflammation, and triggers a healing response. This treatment also improves nerve communication and activates the release of your body’s natural pain relievers.
The activities sparked by dry needling result in four benefits:
1 GET FAST PAIN RELIEF
Your pain improves as the knot relaxes and blood flow improves. Better circulation means that painful, acidic wastes get carried away while your muscles receive the oxygen and nutrients they need to heal.
Many patients experience an immediate reduction in local and widespread pain after one dry needling session. Others may need several sessions to achieve optimum pain relief.
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2 REGAIN YOUR RANGE OF MOTION
Few things stop you from moving like tight, painful muscles. If you have multiple trigger points, you may experience severely limited mobility. And when you’re not active, your muscles weaken and lose mass.
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3 ACCELERATE YOUR RECOVERY
Whether you suffered an injury or had surgery, moving your body is the best way to promote healing, but if we include dry needles it will speed up the process
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4 IMPROV ACUTE AND CHRONIC PAIN CONDITIONS
Dry needling helps with many different injuries and conditions, treating the musculoskeletal tissues all over your body, which means neck pains, lower back pain, knee pain, shoulder and so on.
Dry needling goes a long way toward easing acute pain but also two chronic pain conditions like myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia.
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WHAT IS A TRIGGER POINT?
A Trigger Point (TrP) is a hyper-irritable spot, a palpable nodule in the taut bands of the skeletal muscles' fascia.
When we put a direct compression or the muscle contracts, we can see what is called the ¨jump sign¨, local twitch responses, referred pain which usually responds with a pain pattern distant from the spot, and also the feeling of local tenderness.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
With the use of acupuncture needles, we will release these tense and painful knots in the muscles and fascia. The releases will look like a spasm in the muscles with a pain sensation that could be local or refer to another part of the body.
In the many years, I´ve been working with pain Dry Needling is one of the most effective techniques to treat muscle pain.
Most likely, these sessions will also include other techniques to help the body to release whatever needs to feel complete.
