If you have chronic pain that doesn’t respond to medication and physical therapy, you might want to consider alternative treatments. Your doctor may suggest that you try a physical therapy technique called dry needling to ease your painful muscles. Let’s talk about how dry needling therapy works, why it works, and where you can go to find experienced practitioners who can perform this pain-relief treatment for you. What Is Dry Needling? Dry needling, which is also called trigger-point ... [Read More]
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Can Dry Needling Help With Sciatica Pain?
Do you feel a stinging pain along your lower back that travels down one or both legs? How about numbness along your tailbone? If so, you may be feeling sciatica pain. While mild sciatica pain often subsides without treatment, severe pain requires medical attention. Doctors offer a myriad of treatments from medications to steroid injections to surgery, but one treatment may just be as effective—dry needling. What Is Sciatica Pain? When you feel a burning or stinging pain radiating from your ... [Read More]
What Does Dry Needling Treat?
Chronic pain refers to perpetually intermittent or continuous pain that lasts for more than three months. It can take a physical and emotional toll on a patient, and different people respond differently to various treatments – so you may have to try a number of therapies before finding one that works. One option that works for many patients is dry needling, which relieves pain caused by trigger points. These trigger points are hyperirritable spots in the skeletal muscles, and dry needling can ... [Read More]
What is Trigger Point Therapy?
A lot of people are looking for alternatives to medication. There are several treatments designed to alleviate body pain, for instance. These are techniques to treat pain without the use of painkillers or other drugs. If you are feeling nagging pain in specific areas of your body, there may be trigger points causing the pain. Fortunately, trigger point therapy can help. Trigger Point Therapy Trigger points are places in your muscles that are strained due to continuous pressure on them. When a ... [Read More]
How Dry Needling Helps With Joint Problems
Dry needling is a treatment used to relieve muscle pain due to trigger points (painful knots of contracted muscles) or myofascial pain syndrome (chronic referred pain due to trigger points). Trigger points commonly develop due to overuse, lack of use, or trauma to the muscles in question. Dry needling can also help improve range of movement. For patients suffering from sore joints, dry needling may be able to break you out of the cycle of pain occurring at the joint and improve your mobility. ... [Read More]
