Dry needling is a minimally invasive technique used by Physical Therapists to treat myofascial, nerve, and joint pain that uses a dry needle, without medication or injection. Research indicates dry needling improves pain control, reduces muscle tension, normalizes biomechanical and electrical dysfunction of motor endplates, and facilitates a return to active rehabilitation.
Our providers are certified to perform superficial and deep dry needling techniques for the treatment of craniofacial, cervicothoracic and upper extremity musculoskeletal conditions as well as lumbopelvic and lower extremity musculoskeletal conditions. We perform dry needling of taut bands of muscle (i.e. trigger points) as originally introduced by Travell & Simons. In addition our providers may perform peri-neural dry needling and needle puncture of tendons, ligaments, musculotendinous junctions, teno-osseous junctions, and bone (i.e. “periosteal pecking”). More specifically, peri-neural and peri-vascular dry needling may be utilized for the purpose of improving microcirculation and disrupting fibrosis in chronic neurogenic pain conditions (e.g. an impacted median nerve in carpal tunnel syndrome). Dry needling is certainly a lot more than sticking needles in trigger points!