Dry Needling at Bayside Chiropractic Collective
Experiencing tight muscles? Acute pain? If you’re looking for a tried-and-true way to get your muscles to relax and experience pain relief, consider dry needling. With this therapy, a dry needle (one without medication) is inserted into the specified area to work on myofascial trigger points; those areas can be extra tight and affect the whole muscle and all the fascia surrounding the muscle.
Experiencing tight muscles? Acute pain? If you’re looking for a tried-and-true way to take the tension out of your muscles and get some pain relief, consider dry needling.
Dry needling is a safe, effective therapy to achieve pain relief and greater freedom in your body.
Ultra-thin acupuncture needles are inserted into dysfunctional areas of soft tissue often focusing on myofascial trigger points – small bundles of uber tight muscle fibres that create outsized day to day pain and restriction. This treatment allows the whole muscle to relax, in turn restoring health to the muscle tissue, relieving pain and allowing better overall function.
How Does It Work?
The use of the needle releases the trigger points. With the needle, the pain receptors are stimulated and the brain interprets that in a way that it tells the muscle to turn off the pain and relax.
The use of the dry needles in trigger points and surrounding muscle tissue, fascia and tendons stimulates certain types of pain receptors within the soft tissues. This activates the nervous system in such a way that it restores a greater brain/body connection and allows the soft tissue (muscles etc) to restore a more normal, healthy resting form rather than being in a constant state of tension.
Conditions That Dry Needling Can Address
Those with any of the following may experience benefits from dry needling:
- General aches and pains
- Tennis elbow/golfer’s elbow
- Tendonitis
- Shoulder impingement
- Frozen shoulder
- Neck pain
- Low back pain
- Achilles tendonitis
- Knee issues
- Plantar fasciitis
What to Expect
When you meet with Gareth, who has focused training in dry needling, you can let him know what you’re experiencing and he’ll tell you if you could benefit from dry needling. If dry needling is appropriate for you the therapy will be given in the particular area. Ultrathin sterilised needles will be used for the therapy.
When you meet with Gareth, who has focused training in dry needling, you can let him know what you’re experiencing and he’ll tell you if you could benefit from dry needling. If dry needling is appropriate for you then ultrathin sterilised needles are inserted to areas of concern. They may be left in for up to several minutes. Dry needling is a safe treatment when practiced by trained therapists but If at any time you are uncomfortable with the experience you can say so and Gareth will be happy to reduce the treatment or cease altogether in consultation with what you are happy with.
Frequently Asked Questions
When will I notice an improvement?
Is there anyone who shouldn’t have dry needling?
Will my private health fund cover dry needling?
Is Dry Needling different to Acupuncture?
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