Dry Needling
Musculoskeletal complaints are one of the most-reported conditions for which people seek professional attention, and Dry needling is quickly becoming a very popular modality nationally. This is a new trend in healing and, even though the procedure has been around for a number of years, it is now beginning to attract a great deal of attention.Its growth as a medically accepted therapy is preceded only by the growth of acupuncture in North America. Dry needling is a modern Western treatment using a needle for therapy of muscle pain, sometimes also known as intra muscular stimulation (IMS) or trigger point therapy. The needle is inserted in the muscle where the trigger point is located and the needle interrupts the nerves that are chronically firing in the knot. It grew out of pain therapy using needles to deliver pain medicine. Therapists and physicians noted that needles inserted without their payload of pain medicine or saline produced the same results; hence the term Dry Needling. Although Dry Needling and Acupuncture share some similarities, there are more differences. Most, if not all, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is based on pre-scientific ideas versus Dry Needling's modern scientific neurophysiology and anatomy approach. Unlike Acupuncture's many treatments, Dry needling is purely for pain relief.
