05/19/2025
DRY NEEDLING & ACUPUNCTURE
What can it help with?
🔹Muscle Pain and Tightness
🔹Limited Range of Motion
🔹Sports Injuries
🔹Sciatica
🔹Headaches
How does it work in your body?
✅ Release Tight Muscles- when you have a painful "knot" or tight band in your muscle, it's often stuck in a contracted state. The needle causes a tiny twitch or release in that muscle, which relaxes the tight area, improves movement, and reduces pain.
✅Improve Blood Flow- the needles cause tiny micro-injuries that increase circulation to the area- like turning on a sprinkler in a dry garden. More oxygen and nutrients come in, and waste products and inflammation get cleared out.
✅Calm the Nervous System- needling sends signals to your brain and spinal cord that help turn down pain. It helps reset overactive nerves and ells the body "this area is safe, you can stop hurting". It also triggers the release of natural pain-relieving chemicals like endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine.
✅Stimulate Tissue Repair- the micro-injury from the needle activates your body's natural healing response by waking up fibroblasts (cells that rebuild tissue), increasing stem cell activity, and promoting collagen repair in tendons, ligaments, and fascia.
✅Balance the Body- in acupuncture, needles are placed along energy channels (called meridians) to restore balance in the body. Modern science has found these points often align with nerve bundles, fascial planes, and lymphatic and blood vessel networks. By stimulating these points, needling can reduce inflammation, improve digestion, sleep, and mood.
What You Might Feel
🔸a quick pinch or dull ache as the needle goes in
🔸a "twitch" or heavy sensation in the muscle (a good sign)
🔸relaxation or tingling during or after the session
🔸slight soreness for 24-48 hours as your tissue heals