Dry needling

Description

Dry needling session includes a single aplication of needles. Duration 30 minutes.

Doesn’t includes diagnosis or treatment throught TCM.

Dry needling is a technique used in physical therapy. It works on trigger points, points where there is contracture and pain, whether local or radiated. The difference with acupuncture based on Traditional Chinese Medicine is that it is a totally muscular treatment focused on generating the spasm that releases the tension accumulated in the contracture. There is no energy rebalancing, no diagnosis, and it can only treat pain caused by muscle tension.

Also in this session, mechanical treatments such as ganglions will be monitored, which require very specific manipulation for a short time. The session is not intended to be relaxing like maintenance sessions with acupuncture, but rather to specifically manipulate the area to be treated with the needles.

This session requires previous recomendation from our professionals after a first consultation.

Although the origin of dry needling dates back to 1979 from a study that concluded that punctures without injected substances (“dry needles”) caused a therapeutic effect different from that of the injected substance, in Western medicine needles were used to introduce substances into the body. It was only after the advent of knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine that this new technique was “discovered.”

In fact the initial study that led to the use of dry needling was on Myofascial trigger point infiltrations. This tecnique was first proposed by Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. David Simons in the early 1940s. These doctors injected different substances such as corticosteroids, analgesics, saline solution, etc. At the trigger points. And later they realized that the needles had the same effect without introducing any substance.

Later, the radiculopathy model (“Intramuscular stimulation”) appeared, proposed by the Canadian doctor Chan Gunn, based on the fact that many musculoskeletal pains are due to peripheral neuropathy or radiculopathy, defined then as “a condition that causes a disordered functioning in the peripheral nerve.” To distinguish this method from the “Dry Needling” technique, Gunn called it “intramuscular stimulation.”