Dry Needling
What Is Dry Needling Therapy?
Dry needling is a skillful method used by a trained therapist to assess and treat neuromusculoskeletal diseases, discomfort, mobility problems, and disability. Filiform needles are used to penetrate the skin and/or underlying tissues and cause changes in body structures and functions.
Local effects of dry needling
Soft tissue dysfunction can be treated with dry needling lesions in the soft tissue. Soft tissue injuries can result in tissue inflammation, hypersensitive nerve tissue, scar tissue formation, tissue adhesion, and a deficiency of blood and lymphatic circulation, among other soft tissue injuries. A needle insertion procedure begins with a skin puncture, followed by physical stretching of the tissues (down and up, or rotation of the needle shaft), which results in lesions in the soft tissue. The lesions endure after the needle is taken out for a few days. Thus, the needling process provides both biochemical (lesions) and physical tissue stretching stimuli. This lesion-induced process activates physiological remodeling mechanisms in and around the needling site of soft tissues that have been wounded or inflamed. The tissue remodeling process includes (1) local physical stress reduction (tissue tension) and (2) normalizing local inflammation, and (3) replacement of injured tissues with fresh tissues of the same type.
Systemic effects of dry needling
The restoration of local tissue homeostasis (tissue remodeling of damaged tissues) and systemic equilibrium are the results of each invasive needling procedure.
Reducing physical and physiological stress is a requirement for the restoration of systemic homeostasis.
Muscular tension brought on by physical stress results in biomechanical imbalances like poor posture and joint alignment.Â
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Physiological stress can affect various body systems, such as the immune, cardiovascular, endocrine, and others, as well as local physiological dysfunction (inflammation, tissue ischemia, etc.). Simple invasive needle insertion has therapeutic effects on the local and systemic levels.
