Dry needling

So I've taken on more education with Ivy.

I'm able to provide dry needling services,

which is

fantastic.

So I'm going to give you a snippet of it.

Please.

So for those that don't know what dry needling is, very simplistically is if you have a tissue that's dysfunctional.

So the one area that I need a lot for patients is like upper traps, right? Because everyone carries their stress there.

But when you're in a contact sport, latent trigger points seem to turn into active trigger points, what I was saying in the beginning.

and it's just an observation that i've made and and i think you know those of you who work with athletes i think you'll start seeing if you're not already that a lot of times the acute injury needs some dry needling because of those active trigger points um don't write it off as just joint pain because a lot of times it's not um you'll see that with like um medial knee pain at the eye of the knee coming from a vastus medialis obliquus trigger point.

So if you just blame the joint, then you're leaving this person with pain that could go on for a long time and lead to a lot of unnecessary expensive testing and exams.

Whereas if you palpate and you find that really painful taut band in the VMO and you dry needle it, their medial knee pain in the eye of the knee will go away.

So you got to find those top bands at the upper part of the quad, like upper third.

And I don't go aggressive when it's an acute knee pain, like it just started after the last game.

I'm not looking for crazy dry needling situation.

But I do try to find at least one nice ropey trigger point in the upper quad and get at least one good twitch out of it.