What is Dry Needling?
Dry Needling is a manual technique and therapeutic modality in which a sterile solid filament needle is inserted into soft tissues at points selected by your physical therapist. It is a highly effective form of physical therapy treatment for a multitude of musculoskeletal, neurogenic, and inflammatory conditions.
Are you interested in learning more about Dry Needling at Sternen Physical Therapy? If so, make an appointment today! Or continue reading to learn about the benefits of dry needling.
Dry Needling (DN)
DN is based on the research and work of Dr. Yun-Tao Ma from the American Dry Needling Institute. Students attend foundational and advanced courses to become certified in the DN process. Advanced courses include other micro-vascular therapy including DN with electrical stimulation and cupping.
What Are The Benefits Of Dry Needling?
At our Cleveland, OH physical therapy clinic, we’ve discovered that when we combine traditional exercise-based treatments with dry needling, most of our patients achieve the pain-free results they desire.
After a thorough exam to determine the severity of your problem, our physical therapists will tell you if this is the best course of therapy for you!
This service may help with a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, and it has several health benefits.
The following are just a few common conditions that can be treated with dry needling:
- TMJ dysfunction
- Back pain
- Overuse injuries
- Chronic headaches
- Neck pain
- Joint pain and discomfort
- MANY MORE…
This method of treatment has been shown to benefit a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders, including, but not limited to:
- Tennis/Golfer’s elbow
- Sciatica
- Muscle spasms
- Muscle strains
- Tendinitis
- Knee pain
- Hip pain
- Acute and chronic injuries
- Overuse injuries
- Neck pain
- Headaches
- Back pain
- Fibromyalgia
How Does Dry Needling & Cupping Work?
Dry needling works at the systemic and local tissue level in order to restore internal homeostasis. Homeostasis is a process in which the body’s internal environment is stable, despite changes in external conditions. DN promotes self healing.
Soft tissue dysfunction involves soft tissue injuries including tissue inflammation, sensitized nerve tissue, scar tissue formation, tissue adhesion, and deficiency in blood and lymphatic circulation. The process of inserting a sterile needle starts with puncturing the skin, and then involves physical stretching of the tissues by mobilizing the needle and creating lesions in the soft tissue. This initiates a tissue remodeling process to reduce tissue tension, normalize local inflammation, and replace injured tissues. DN can produce a local twitch response when inserted into an active trigger point and this will reduce referred trigger point pain.
The DN process also works with the systemic nervous system using peripheral nerve mapping to reduce the neurogenic inflammation for pain management of neuropathy and radiculopathy syndromes.
Advanced DN therapists also use micro-vascular techniques, such as cupping and
electrical stimulation with the needling. These techniques follow the same principles of foundational integrative dry needling. Cupping involves placing cups on the skin to create suction and facilitate blood flow. This helps relieve muscle tension, which improves overall circulation and promotes cell repair. Cupping is used along with manual therapy and exercise to give patients optimal treatment results.
DN is available as part of your insurance-based physical therapy care at Sternen Physical Therapy. The Ohio Physical Therapy board recognizes DN procedures as in the scope of physical therapy practice. Yet, the DN treatment billing codes may be denied by your insurance, as the treatment is still investigative. A fee for uncovered codes may be assessed at the time of service.
DN is also available through Cleveland BodyWise as a part of your ongoing wellness. Schedule a brief 15 minute appointment, or up to a 45 minute session for dry needling at these cash-based rates.
- 20 Minute DN ONLY (No Therapy) = $45
- 40 Minute DN ONLY (No Therapy) = $100
- Bodywise + Dry Needling Add On = $135
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DN in the course of therapy (i.e. therapy units billed as well) = $25
Ready To Try Dry Needling?
Visit Our Cleveland, OH Physical Therapy Clinic Today!
If you are suffering from chronic headache pain, neck pain, an overuse injury, or another form of discomfort, please contact Sternen Physical Therapy in Cleveland, OH right away to schedule an appointment. Our skilled team can promote pain relief starting today!
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