Dry Needling

Dry needling is a treatment that involves the insertion of a very thin needle into trigger points or tight muscles of your body. The main purpose is to improve tissue healing and restore muscle function. Dry needling, also known as myofascial trigger point dry needling, is an alternative medicine technique similar to acupuncture. Dry needling is sometimes also known as intramuscular stimulation.

Benifits

  • Dry-needling can restore muscle activation and strength as well as ROM.
  • Dry-needling decreases pain in patients with Chronic low back pain and in patients with hemiparetic upper limb post CVA.
  • dry-needling reduces/removes nociceptive input from trigger points, normalize synaptic efficacy and reduce peripheral and central sensitization.

Indication

  • Identification of myofascial trigger points in the muscle through palpation.
  • Deep dry needling reproduces the patient's pattern of pain.
  • Identification of 'Jump' and 'Shout' sign on palpation on MTrP.
  • The minimum criteria for diagnosis of myofascial trigger points are: Spot tenderness in a palpable band of skeletal musle, Subject recognition of pain with palpation, Clinical presentation.

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