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What Is Dry Needling?

To note, an Evaluation is required prior to booking Dry Needling appointments to screen for your SAFETY (we want to make sure this treatment makes you feel BETTER not worse...) 

What? 

Injection of thin monofilament needles, as with acupuncture, with
no injectate into ligaments, muscles, tendons, subcutaneous fascia, scar tissue, as well as, vicinity of peripheral nerves/neurovascular bundles

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Why?

Most evidence for dry needling revolves around myofascial trigger points 
• Also know to relieve:
• Chronic pain
• Chronic shoulder pain and ROM deficits 

• Nerve/radicular pain 
• Muscle stiffness with LTrps (latent trigger points, NOT ACTIVE) 
• Tendinopathies 
• Central Sensitization (also associated with chronic pain and frozen shoulder) 

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