Dry Needling

Dry needling involves the insertion of a sterile, fine filament needle into a Myofascial trigger point for the purpose of restoring muscle pain, length and dysfunction.

But what can it address?

• Mechanical Pain: Improving motor recruitment or patterning, restoring functional stability to a joint or reducing soft tissue impingement of a nerve

• Chemical Pain: For example recurrent inflammation resulting in ongoing mechanical pain

• Neurogenic pain: Long term active myotrigger points have been associated with the development of central and peripheral sensitisation.

What does the dry needling experience feel like?

This will differ individually and depends on the tissue integrity, but will most likely feel like a “dull ache or bruised sensation” and can be accompanied by a local twitch response at the time. Following the release, the muscle itself may feel heavy and achey over the next 30 minutes to 72 hours.