Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min · 19 segments
Today, we’re talking with Rachel Herr-Musselman. She is a proud Lancaster County native who has turned her passion for health, wellness, and her community into something truly meaningful. Rachel…
Rachel Herr-MusselmanGuestMandyHostSo 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.
That area between the shoulder joint and your neck.
The tense area that most of us, especially women, they carry it there, right?
So we might find like trigger points or that tissue might be a little spastic.
So if we were in a lab setting and I could take a tissue sample of that area day one and show you under a microscope the dysfunction, like the muscle tissue would be, in most layman's terms, you know, junked up and not firing, contracting efficiently.
Right.
So then we go through the dry needling procedure, which is simplistically we're inserting microfilaments into the tissue.
So we'll use like a trigger point stimulation or we can put like clips onto the needle.
back to the brain that hey we need you something new right so we start this cascade effect of laying down like promoting blood flow to the area laying down new tissue a sense of you know fast forwarding on the healing process right so then if we were still in the lab setting seven days later i can take a sample of that same area and you're going to see tissue regrowth you're going to see healing And so
cool.
So to be able to do that in real time and provide that to patients that have had like chronic pain and all the other conservative treatments aren't working for them.
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.
That area between the shoulder joint and your neck.
The tense area that most of us, especially women, they carry it there, right?
So we might find like trigger points or that tissue might be a little spastic.
So if we were in a lab setting and I could take a tissue sample of that area day one and show you under a microscope the dysfunction, like the muscle tissue would be, in most layman's terms, you know, junked up and not firing, contracting efficiently.
Right.
So then we go through the dry needling procedure, which is simplistically we're inserting microfilaments into the tissue.
So we'll use like a trigger point stimulation or we can put like clips onto the needle.
back to the brain that hey we need you something new right so we start this cascade effect of laying down like promoting blood flow to the area laying down new tissue a sense of you know fast forwarding on the healing process right so then if we were still in the lab setting seven days later i can take a sample of that same area and you're going to see tissue regrowth you're going to see healing And so
cool.
So to be able to do that in real time and provide that to patients that have had like chronic pain and all the other conservative treatments aren't working for them.
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