Dry needling is a modern treatment designed to ease muscular pain. During dry needling, a practitioner inserts several filiform needles into your skin. Filiform needles are fine, short, stainless steel needles that don’t inject fluid into the body. That’s why the term “dry” is used.
Practitioners place the needles in “trigger points” in your muscle or tissue. Dry needling is also sometimes called intramuscular stimulation. The points are areas of knotted or hard muscle.
The needle helps release the knot and relieve any muscle pain or spasms. The needles will remain in your skin for a short period of time. The length of time depends on the response of neuromuscular trigger point release.
Integrated Dry Needling (IDN)
IDN can be considered the third generation of modern dry needling. The integration of treating conditions at a symptomatic, segmental, and at a systemic level, allows the practitioner to view and treat the human body as an inter-related organism, yet allowing the clinical freedom to adapt the treatment for each patient. As a result IDN provides the framework upon which to address all types of physical dysfunction.
The fourth generation of modern dry needling (DN) is currently being written. Medical and allied health professionals are incorporating DN with their current modalities, techniques and treatment concepts. Today's modern DN is part of a multi-modal treatment plan, not a stand alone modality. Practitioners continue to find new ways to integrate and expand the use of DN to improve clinical results at a pace not previously achieved. The future of DN is exciting and filled with the potential to help more patients manage an expanding list of conditions and IDN, with it's adaptive conceptual model, will continue to be leading the charge.
Our Therapist is trained by the Integrated Dry Needling Institute and licensed to practice in the United States.
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