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]
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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]
Dry Needling
Dry needling is becoming a popular technique performed by physical therapists to help their patients reduce pain. Although it uses the same type of needles as are used in acupuncture, they are very different techniques and are done for different reasons. Whereas acupuncture is an ancient Chinese form of therapy for the whole body, with the purpose of manipulating the body’s inner “energy flows,” dry needling is done based on research of pain relief. It focuses on relieving points of pain – spe ... [Read More]
What Conditions Can Dry Needling Treat?
Dry needling uses extremely thin needles inserted at affected areas of the body in hopes of relieving muscle pain and improving range of movement. It is not a new treatment method; tens of thousands of patients have benefitted from dry needling. It is called “dry” needling because there is no medicine delivered with the needle – it simply pierces the skin to target specific tissue underneath. Unlike acupuncture, which seeks to align energy flow (“chi”) in the body, dry needling is based on sci ... [Read More]
Reasons to Try Dry Needling for Pain Relief and More
Dry needling is a method that physical therapists often use to treat pain and mobility issues. It is a sensitive intervention in which a medical professional inserts a thin needle into the skin to stimulate the muscles underneath. The needle helps to stimulate the various trigger points that are causing the medical issue. Dry needling is very different from acupuncture. Though these two techniques share the aim of pain relief for the patient, dry needling is vastly different in philosophy and ... [Read More]
