Trigger Point Dry Needling

[Wahine]

Wahine, just to clarify - my post was meant to encourage you to fight for your privilege to continue to do TDN. Just as TDN isn't the be-all end-all, neither is massage therapy. Competent physical therapists should be able to draw upon many therapy techniques, including TDN, to best help their patients.

In my case in particular,TDN was a helpful part of my overall therapy. I'm pretty sure that I would be at least another couple of weeks behind in my rehab if not for TDN.

Thank you very much Artista, I took it as such.

[Wahine]

I agree with goldfinch. I wouldn't want an acupuncturist to dry needle my trigger points for the same reasons that I wouldn't want my physical therapist to do acupuncture on me.

Exactly.

Goldfinch, thank you for that as well.

Kiwi Stoker, I'm glad you had such a good experience.

[salsabike]

I should add that when I tried traditional acupuncture for fibromyalgia pain, it was not effective. Interesting stuff.

[GrooverBrisbane]

My massage therapist has treated my very sore neck/shoulder with dry needling a couple of times, always with a great result. She also does cupping. It hurt somewhat but it was rather "good pain", if you know what I mean. Would have it done anytime again but agree, like with anything, you need to have someone skilled and experienced!

[Wahine]

My massage therapist has treated my very sore neck/shoulder with dry needling a couple of times, always with a great result. She also does cupping. It hurt somewhat but it was rather "good pain", if you know what I mean. Would have it done anytime again but agree, like with anything, you need to have someone skilled and experienced!

That's what I love about Australia, if you show that you are competent and appropriately trained you can use many techniques without dealing with the silly turf wars we have here in the US.

[smilingcat]

Hi Wahine,

Bumping this back up. well because... I had "demo/sample" dry needling today. On one muscle it made my muscle twitch number of times. On another muscle, it felt like a sharp pain, not the good kind. It's been nearly twelve hours since my treatment. I'll probably go back and spend $$ to get one complete session to give it a chance.

It's a bummer to have a frozen shoulder. It's been "thawing" for last several month but it just isn't going fast enough for me!!

I think any non-drug approach to pain management and dealing with sore muscle would be a preferred way. No brainer I think.

And yes please fight for your "right" to be able to do dry needling!! There are not enough Doctors/PT and others to adequately meet the needs of people. Why keep it to select few to practice something that isn't drug related!!

thanks

[Pip]

Dry needling is often the only thing which will help me when I have an injury. Most recently my shoulder seized up (no particular reason - it just decided to stop working), and after a couple of months of osteo and physio treatment the physio pulled out the needs. Within a couple of sessions I was almost back to normal. That after weeks of making no progress on the bunch of knotted muscles that was my shoulder.