Dry needling / acupuncture

Dry needling is a modern treatment designed to ease muscular pain. During dry needling, several filiform needles are inserted into your skin. The needles are placed in “trigger points” in your muscle or tissue. These points are areas of knotted or hard muscle, the needle helps release the knot and relieve any muscle pain or spasms.

The benefits of dry needling include:

• Patients usually feel an immediate improvement in the mobility of the muscles treated

• It can help to reduce pain

• It can assist in reducing a need for pain medication

• Facilitates tissue repair after an injury

• Dry Needling can reduce inflammation related to tendonitis, arthritis, impingement, or stress fractures

• It is more specific and can target deeper muscles than massage or even instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilisation

• It is beneficial in season and during competition, without any need for rest due to the procedure

• This treatment also improves nerve communication and activates the release of your body’s natural pain relievers

• Dry needling helps with increasing range of motion in joints, relaxing tight muscles, improving blood flow, reducing pain, diminishes inflammation, improving strength, and can also speed up the recovery process from an injury by triggering a healing response