Acupuncture and Dry Needling

If you’ve been suffering with chronic knee pain, lower back stiffness, serious muscle tension, agonising headaches, excruciating migraines, or even painful arthritis that runs amok inside your joints – it can be very tempting to simply live with it and hope that it’ll go away on it’s own. Or pass it off as something that “everyone your age will have to “put up with” at some point… 

Dry Needling (DN) is an effective treatment for acute and chronic pain. It can promote healing after injury and improves a patient’s ability to move with less pain. DN is a therapeutic treatment that involves inserting a very thin filament needle into a “trigger point” or muscle spasm that refers pain to a specific area of the body. DN treatment of active trigger points increases healing time and reduces pain by Increasing blood flow to the muscle tissue Improving muscles ability to stretch/relax with movement. Decreasing tension in the muscles to help reduce pain and strain Deactivating painful trigger points Improve the brains ability to activate muscles, inhibit pain and improve function. Muscular spasms and trigger points are common following an injury or due to degenerative process.