Trigger point dry needling is a physiotherapy modality that decreases pain in your muscles. Physio Jonny follows a western medicine approach when using this technique and does not perform acupuncture. Our goal, as musculoskeletal specialists, is to restore normal muscle and joint function.
Dry needling therapy uses a solid filament needle to treat muscle trigger points. These points are highly localised, hyper-irritable spots in a taut band of muscle fibres. Trigger points play a role in producing and maintaining the pain cycle. They can alter muscle performance and generate pain along common referral patterns. They develop in muscle for various reasons, including referred or local pain, inflammation, athletic injury and other causes.
Dry needling in Dubai is used as an adjunct to our hands-on physiotherapy approach and assessment, to decrease pain and restore function.
Dry needle stimulation of the muscle produces a local twitch response, or rapid depolarisation of muscle fibres. This leads to a reduction in muscle activity, which results in relaxation and decreased pain and dysfunction. This decrease in pain is related to the removal of muscular compression on your joint, nerve and vascular tissue. Referred pain can be reproduced as a result of dry needling, which is a positive sign confirming the trigger point as the source of the pain. Dry needling is highly effective for chronic muscle pain, back and neck pain, and repetitive sports injuries.
Dry needling uses the same type of needles as acupuncture, but with a different theoretical purpose. Acupuncture adopts a Traditional Chinese Medicine approach to normalise the flow of energy, or Chi, in the body to treat pain. Although both approaches use the same type of needle, dry needling is based on the traditional reasoning of Western medicine. The needle insertion sites are specific myofascial trigger points in skeletal muscle, which can differ from acupuncture sites.
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