Dry Needling
Dry needling is a technique used to decrease muscular and neural tension in the body using a very small diameter needle without the use of medication. While dry needling is different than acupuncture, the needles used are the same type.
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Overall, dry needling can reduce pain, inflammation, and tension while stimulating a healing response by increasing blood flow to the area.
Dry needling involves inserting a needle at various depths along 3 different types of areas to decrease pain and normalize tension.
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There are 3 types of areas of Dry Needling
Homeostatic points - these are areas in the body that tend to hold inflammation and pain and needling them can normalize tension and inflammation
Symptomatic points - these points are where a patient feels pain, tension or discomfort which can be reduced by needling.
Peripheral neural points - as we know, all nerves start from the spine. Tracing a painful area in the limbs back along the nerve towards the spine can help to find a root cause point for the pain. needling this area can help to decrease that pain, without even touching the painful point.