Dry needling has emerged as a promising treatment option for patients with hip arthritis. By targeting specific trigger points in the muscles surrounding the hip joint, it can help alleviate pain, improve mobility, and enhance overall function.
How Does Dry Needling Work?
Dry needling involves inserting thin, solid needles into trigger points, which are areas of muscle tension and inflammation. This technique is believed to:
- Reduce muscle tension: By releasing tight muscle fibers.
- Decrease pain: By affecting the nervous system and reducing pain signals.
- Improve blood flow: To promote healing and tissue repair.
- Restore normal muscle function: By helping muscles work more efficiently.
Benefits of Dry Needling for Hip Arthritis
- Pain relief: Dry needling can significantly reduce hip pain associated with arthritis by addressing muscle-related pain.
- Improved mobility: By releasing tight muscles, dry needling can help increase range of motion in the hip joint.
- Enhanced function: As pain and stiffness decrease, daily activities become easier to perform.
- Complementary to other treatments: Dry needling can be combined with other therapies, such as physical therapy and medication, for optimal results.
Important Considerations
- Qualified practitioner: It’s essential to seek treatment from a trained physiotherapist with experience in dry needling.
- Individual response: Results may vary from person to person.
- Not a standalone treatment: Dry needling is often most effective when combined with other treatment modalities.
Dry needling is often most effective when combined with other treatments like physical therapy, medication, and lifestyle modifications.
Patients' Testimonials
Low back pain present for 2 years with it severe for the last 8 months. He has had 3 steroid injections and an epidural in that time. He has had improvement from those but only temporary pain always came back after a month. Here is his 3rd physical therapy and Acupuncture session and he has reported 50% improvement today. He said after his 2nd treatment he was pain-free for 2 days. Although the pain has come back in the last 2 days it is not at the same pain threshold.
Pain present for 4 months, a chase of chronic shoulder and arm pain.
This is her second treatment and her shoulder and arm pain have reduced 80%,also off of all pain killers etc. A home care programme of strength and stretch exercises have been given with specific focus on the root causes of the pain. Remember pain is the symptom; the goal is to find the root cause and then everything thing else follows naturally.
Treatment of Achilles tendon injury sustained for four weeks. She has been given a home care plan of stretch and strength exercises, and we have also done some hands-on therapy on the calf and Achilles tendon also.
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