DRY NEEDLING

Dry Needling an excellent technique to release the deep muscles’ tension. It promotes blood flow in the treated area and thus more healing.

It is one of the treatment techniques that Physios can use to target and loosen off tissue tension in the muscles. It is proven that our bodies can develop areas of hypersensitivity as a tissue tension in response to various stimuli - Postural, psychological stress or repetitive injuries (sport or work related).

Is dry needling and acupuncture the same?

The only common thing between the two treatment approaches are the needles. Acupuncture is based on ancient medicine where meridian lines/energy points are targeted. On the contrary, dry needling is based on Western Medicine as mentioned earlier on to target the sore spots. In simpler words, instead of digging our fingers into it we put the needle at the same spot that allows more mobility into the many more layers of the muscle tissue. Thus dry needling is used in increasing the flexibility of the muscles and recovering from pain and function limitation due to different injuries that one has faced.