What is Functional Dry Needling?
Functional dry needling is a tool to help reset and restore tissues by improving flexibility, strength, decreasing pain and nerve sensitivity. You’ll start to gain better neuromuscular control and balance and begin to move better. Dry needling is a complement to other techniques used alongside other services in your treatment plan.
Functional dry needling is a treatment tool used within the scope of physical therapy practice, by a licensed and certified practitioner in many states. Dry needling is a technique that utilizes a small needles to treat disorders of the musculoskeletal and neurological system that cause pain and dysfunction. It is called “Dry” Needling because there is no solution injected.
The technique is implemented following a thorough review of your medical history and physical examination to identify altered movement patterns, strength, flexibility and motion of the spine and extremities. Small needles are tapped through the skin, directed towards specific tissues in multiple layers. Dry needling is also sometimes called intramuscular stimulation.
Functional dry needling is a treatment tool used within the scope of physical therapy practice, by a licensed and certified practitioner in many states. Dry needling is a technique that utilizes a small needles to treat disorders of the musculoskeletal and neurological system that cause pain and dysfunction. It is called “Dry” Needling because there is no solution injected.
The technique is implemented following a thorough review of your medical history and physical examination to identify altered movement patterns, strength, flexibility and motion of the spine and extremities. Small needles are tapped through the skin, directed towards specific tissues in multiple layers. Dry needling is also sometimes called intramuscular stimulation.
What is a dry needling trigger point?
A common target tissue is the trigger point or knot. In general, these points are taut bands of tissue, give rise to pain, and can send pain signals to other areas. Trigger points can be sensitive to touch and touching may trigger pain in other parts of the body.
The insertion of the needle into these trigger points, as well as others that may also affect this area, has been shown to produce many beneficial physiological changes at the cellular and chemical level. These changes promote a series of events that positively alters pain and dysfunction allowing for improved movement.
The insertion of the needle into these trigger points, as well as others that may also affect this area, has been shown to produce many beneficial physiological changes at the cellular and chemical level. These changes promote a series of events that positively alters pain and dysfunction allowing for improved movement.
What kind of needles are used in dry needling?
The needles that are used in dry needling involve a thin filiform or filament needle, made of stainless steel, that penetrates into the skin and stimulates underlying trigger points and muscular and connective tissues. The sterile needles are disposed of in a medical sharps collector after use.
What are the benefits of dry needling?
There are a number of conditions that benefit from dry needling including, but not limited to headache/migraine, muscle, nerve and disc disorders of the neck and back, sciatica, SI Joint, hip and knee pain, rotator cuff and elbow tendinitis, Achilles tendinitis, heel Spurs and plantar fasciitis as well as conditions related to cubital and carpal tunnel.
We have successfully helped patients with acute and chronic, overuse conditions gain function and quality of life using Dry Needling as part of the treatment plan!
We have successfully helped patients with acute and chronic, overuse conditions gain function and quality of life using Dry Needling as part of the treatment plan!
Dry Needling works! But don’t just take it from us, listen to what our patients have to say.
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