Dry Needling Treatment in Edenvale

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What is Dry Needling?

Let’s clarify what it is all about:

Not Acupuncture: While the fine, sterile needles we use might look similar to those used in acupuncture, the techniques and underlying philosophies are different. Dry needling doesn’t involve injecting any substances into the body – hence the name “dry.” It’s a direct mechanical stimulation of the muscle tissue.
Targets Trigger Points: The primary goal of dry needling is to stimulate and release trigger points (also known as myofascial trigger points). These are those tender, tight knots you might feel in your muscles that can cause localized pain or even pain that radiates to other parts of your body. Think of them as tiny, contracted muscle fibers that need to be “reset.”
Used for Effective Pain Relief: Dry needling is a powerful tool for relieving pain, reducing stubborn muscle tightness, and improving your overall range of motion. By targeting those specific trigger points, we can help break the pain cycle and restore normal muscle function.

How Dry Needling Can Help You:

By precisely targeting trigger points with fine needles, dry needling can:

Release muscle tension and spasms
Reduce pain and discomfort
Improve blood flow to the affected area, promoting healing
Decrease nerve irritation
Restore normal muscle length and function
Ultimately enhance your movement and quality of life

Dry needling is used to treat a variety of conditions, including:

Muscle pain
Trigger points
Tension headaches
Fibromyalgia
Tennis elbow
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Low back pain
Sciatica

Our physiotherapists are expertly trained

Your physiotherapist has been specifically trained in the various needling techniques. Appropriate needle length and thickness will be chosen by your physiotherapist appropriately for your condition and body size and it will then be inserted through the skin in the appropriate place. You will feel a small pinprick and depending on the type of needle technique chosen you may also feel a muscle ache and possibly one or more small muscle twitches. These are normal sensations to experience during Dry Needling.

There is very little risk associated with Dry Needling if performed properly by a trained physiotherapist. You may experience small bruising around the needle site as with any injection. Rarely, you may have an emotional response and become happy, teary, sweaty or cold. These effects are short-lived.

If you are being treated in the neck, chest or shoulder area there is an additional risk that involves your lung. A pneumothorax (air in the space around the lung) may develop if the lung is punctured. This is a serious but rare condition for which you should go directly to hospital for. Symptoms of this include shortness of breath which worsens, sudden sharp pain with breathing, inability to “catch your breath” and bluish colouring to the lips. Medical treatment is highly effective for this rare complication.