Dry Needling
What is it?
Dry needling is one of the most popular techniques being used to relieve acute and chronic muscular pain. Dry needling is very effective in pain relief from headaches, migraines, tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, back pain, calf strains, sciatic pain and more. Dry needling is also known as myofascial trigger point dry needling is a technique similar to acupuncture using the same single-use needles to relieve tight muscles and reduce muscular pain.
How does it work?
Trigger points are hyper-irritable spots within a muscles that can refer pain and be very tender. Often these are the areas which most people refer to as a 'knot' or painful spot on the body. The interesting part about a trigger point is that it may refer pain to a site that may not be where you feel the tight/painful spot. Your therapist has over 8 + years of experience to recognise these patterns and locate the source of pain, often relieving your symptoms in the quickest time ad least amount of treatments.