Project Description
FAST & EFFECTIVE
Target areas can be treated more efficiently, allowing the practitioner to move to the next area of concern in less time.
RESEARCHED BENEFITS
It is now well researched that the ‘twitch’ response in the muscle during dry needling is associated with the muscle relaxing and stopping the pull on adjacent areas.
DOES IT HURT?
The needles used are very thin, and you may not feel them enter your skin. If the muscle is shortened and sensitive you will feel a cramping or twitch sensation. This is very short-lasting, and patients soon learn to recognise this sensation as therapeutic as it is followed by a feeling of pain relief and muscle relaxation.
PROVEN TECHNIQUES
Dry needling is used to release muscle tension and pain from patients, through the activation of local twitch responses in the muscles. Dry needling works by advancing a fine filament needle into the muscle and de-activating a “trigger point” in the region.
Most patients do not even realise the needle has penetrated the skin. Healthy muscles will feel very little, but if the muscle is sensitive or tight, you may feel a cramp-like sensation, caused as the muscle activates a ‘twitch response’.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
The management team at Sandringham Sports Physio own and operate GEMt (Global Education of Manual Therapists), where the skill of Dry Needling is taught to manual therapists across the globe.