Dry Needling

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Can anyone please tell me what dry needling is as i've noticed it

come up a few times but have never heard of it before.

 

Attilio

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Can anyone please tell me what dry needling is as i've noticed it

come up a few times but have never heard of it before.

>>>I define it in my book as acupuncture done on neuroanatomical bases.

Alon

 

 

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> Can anyone please tell me what dry needling is as i've noticed it

> come up a few times but have never heard of it before.

> >>>I define it in my book as acupuncture done on neuroanatomical

bases.

> Alon

 

Ok, do you mean acupoints or areas where there's pain? As an area

that has pain is an acupoint as stated by the Nei Jing.

 

Atti

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Ok, do you mean acupoints or areas where there's pain? As an area

that has pain is an acupoint as stated by the Nei Jing.

>>>>Areas with pain are the simplest level of neuroanatomical. It goes much more

in-depth than that.

Alon

 

 

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Attilio,

 

dry needling is more than just a generic term. it refers specifically to a

trigger point therapy taught by Dr Gunn, an anesthesiologist and pain

specialist. i believe he hails from british columbia. dry needling is done

for trigger points. the university of washington started using dry needling

in their pain services in 1987. one of the fellows, an anesthesiologist, of

course, said repeatedly that he preferred dry needling to the usual

anesthetic injections, because you get a direct experience of how that

trigger point is behaving. they used seirin needles and placed them in a

plunger that tightens around the needle. the plunger provides a handle with

which to work that is more convenient than the needle's plastic handle. the

needle is inserted in trigger points one at a time, without manipulation to

speak of, until the trigger point lets the needle go. occasionally a point

will grab a needle for a good minute until it releases, but it is usually

faster than that.

 

the problem in practice is that you have to autoclave the plungers, and

personally, i do not have an autoclave. it is important to educate patients,

letting them know that as trigger points relax, they will spasm. of course,

this can happen after acupuncture tx and massage therapy, as well. it is

important for them to drink extra water after the procedure, including some

as immediately as possible. this will minimize pain from any transient

spasms. even extreme spasms should settle down within 24 hours. for some

cases, use of a tens after the procedure can help with the exacerbation, but

i am talking about the kind of tens people take home to use. i don't want to

make this sound like a miserable technique, because that is not at all the

case. it is very effective, and very worth a reasonable transient

exacerbation of pain.

 

i believe helio sells Dr Gunn's book.

 

Lynn

 

 

 

 

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dry needling is more than just a generic term. it refers specifically to a

trigger point therapy taught by Dr Gunn, an anesthesiologist and pain

specialist.

>>>Not true. It was first used by travell to differentiate between injection and

non-injection of myofascial triggers. She was using a regular injection needle

(not acupu needle) but without injection.

Alon

 

 

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i believe he hails from british columbia. dry needling is done

for trigger points.

>>>Gunn does not treat " trigger points "

Alon