11/01/2026
✨ When the body remembers how to respond ✨
What you’re seeing here isn’t the needle “making” the muscle move.
It’s the nervous system responding 🧠
This needle is engaging a reactive point in the posterior calf — a meeting place of muscle, fascia, circulation and nerve signalling.
In a hyper-irritable myofascial trigger point, the tissue is already primed. When the needle engages the system, we often see a local twitch response (LTR) — visible here as areas of the calf muscle briefly contracting — and this characteristic “dancing” quality of the acupuncture needle 💃
In Chinese medicine, this is known as De Qi (meaning “obtaining vital energy”) — not just a sensation, but a conversation between needle, tissue and nervous system 🌿
In modern terms, it reflects reflexive neuromuscular release, altered pain signalling, and a shift from protective holding into regulation.
It can look dramatic.
But the aim isn’t the movement.
The aim is restored communication, reduced guarding, improved circulation, and function returning where it was stuck ✨
Sometimes healing is subtle.
Sometimes it dances 🌀
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