Dry Needling
Experience Dry Needling Services in Foxboro & Stoughton, MA
Discover a cutting-edge technique that enhances healing and recovery, dry needling. Focused on relieving pain and improving muscle function, Elite Sports Performance & Physical Therapy brings dry needling to Foxboro & Stoughton, MA patients. This specialized procedure uses fine needles in trigger points to relieve tension and promote muscle repair. Whether you’re an athlete aiming for peak performance or a patient seeking physical therapy, our experienced team is here to help you achieve your health and fitness goals.
What Is Dry Needling?
Dry needling is a versatile treatment that addresses several orthopedic conditions. It can effectively treat muscle strains, ligament sprains, joint pain, and range of motion impairments. Dry needling also alleviates headaches, lower back and neck pain, and improves recovery time after a sporting event. By targeting and releasing trigger points in your muscles, dry needling reduces pain and enhances your mobility. Our trained professionals use fine needles to penetrate deep into your muscles, joints, and connective tissue to improve overall function and speed up healing.
How Does Dry Needling Work?
This medical process creates micro-lesions inside pathologic tissues using fine needles to stimulate local inflammation responses. This increases the blood flow and brings healing proteins to the affected area, helping reduce chronic inflammation by countering blood vessel narrowing (vasoconstriction) and low oxygen levels in your body tissues (tissue hypoxia). Dry needling also interrupts how pain travels through your nervous system, providing local and whole-body pain relief. Increased blood flow following dry needling helps promote the growth of new, healthy tissue as the body heals the micro-lesions. Altogether, dry needling enhances your body’s healing and speeds up recovery by jump-starting your body’s natural healing response.
Dry Needling vs Acupuncture: What’s the Difference?
Dry needling and acupuncture involve inserting fine needles into the body, so you may wonder what the difference is. Acupuncture, rooted in Eastern Medicine for over 2,000 years, aims to clear or improve energy flow along meridian lines within the body to treat various ailments like anxiety, depression, and respiratory disorders. Dry needling, based in Western medicine, targets specific trigger points within muscles and connective tissues to penetrate deeper and create micro-lesions to jump-start the body’s healing response and alleviate pain in your musculoskeletal system.
Schedule Your Dry Needling Session Today
Experience the numerous benefits of dry needling at Elite Sports Performance & Physical Therapy, where our professionals are ready to help you reduce pain and enhance your recovery. Unfortunately, most insurance plans don’t cover dry needling, but we have made this service affordable. Add dry needling to your physical therapy session for $25 or schedule a standalone session for $85 (Prices subject to change without notice). Don’t delay your progress. Book your appointment and take that next step towards peak performance and improved health. Schedule your session at our Foxboro or Stoughton, MA locations today.