Dry Needling
Do You Want To Relieve Your Muscle Pain Quickly?
Dry Needling Can Significantly Reduce Muscle Pain In As Little As 1 To 2 Treatments!Are you having aching muscle pain?
Persistent Muscle Tightness, Radiating Pain, or Unexplained Weakness?
If you're experiencing muscle tightness that persists despite stretching or foam rolling, pain radiating to other areas, unexplained weakness, or intermittent pain, trigger points could be the culprit.
What are Trigger Points?
Trigger points, also known as muscle knots, are hypersensitive areas within muscles that can cause various symptoms.
Effective Relief is Possible
At GOfit Physical Therapy, we offer dry needling, a safe and effective treatment to address trigger points and alleviate your pain.
Unlocking Relief with Expert Dry Needling
Dry needling can be a powerful tool for addressing muscle pain, but its effectiveness hinges on skilled application.
GOfit's Difference:
Experienced Therapists: Our certified dry needling specialists have extensive experience and a proven track record of success, even in cases where other treatments fell short. We're recognized by the state of Maryland for our expertise.
Part of a Comprehensive Plan: Dry needling won't exist in isolation at GOfit. We'll identify the root cause of your trigger points and create a personalized treatment plan that may include dry needling alongside other modalities for optimal results.
We Have Helped Other People Just Like You!
“…[Kyle] identified the cause of my pain and treated the localized painful areas with dry needling. More importantly, he gave me strengthening exercises to treat the underlying muscle weakness and keep me running in the long term. After a few sessions with Kyle I started running again, and I soon after resumed training. I ran a personal best time in the Marathon and know that wouldn’t have happened without Kyle’s help! He got to know me as an individual and understand my running ambitions, and together we formed a plan that would get me running again quickly but safely…”
“…As a person with hypermobility, my joint issues can be complicated and are always in need of help which is why I chose to work with Cara. She spends the entire hour working on whatever I need during any given session which may include dry needling, neuromuscular re-education, massage, taping etc... I love working with Cara at GOfit because I not only see and feel the benefits of our sessions, but I’ve developed a connection with someone who is clearly passionate about her job, highly skilled in her profession, thinks outside the box, goes the extra mile to make sure her clients feel better and gives them accessible tools to apply when at home, traveling or at work. I highly recommend working with Cara if you want a holistic approach towards decreasing pain, improving performance or just feeling better overall. To be honest, I don’t know what I would do without her!!!”
Here Is Everything You Get At Your First Appointment With Us:
60-Minute Evaluation With a Board Certified Specialist & Fellow Of The American Academy Of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists. Our physical therapists have 99% more training than any other physical therapist nationwide. This comprehensive evaluation will find the root cause of your pain and make sure you fully understand why you’re having pain and what’s causing it.
Identify All Underlying Risk Factors That Could Be Causing Your Pain. This is the biggest reason why treatments fail and pain returns. We identify all risk factors and design a way to resolve them.
Get Accurate Diagnosis, Prognosis, And Results Timeline Without Needing Imaging. You will know exactly what is causing your pain, when to expect results, and what phase of recovery you are in.
Learn What Is The Best And Most Proven Treatment For Your Injury. We don’t waste time with treatments that don’t work. You will know the best way to treat your pain.
Get Unlimited Access Between You and Your Doctor Of Physical Therapy.
Bonus #1 Receive Treatment That Same Day. No sense in telling you what is wrong and not doing anything about it! We want to start some treatment ASAP to get you better, faster. This includes performing dry needling on day 1.
Bonus #2 Receive Customized Home Exercise Program. These home programs are easy to follow and will expedite your results.
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What is dry needling used for?
Dry needling is used to treat trigger points (commonly called muscle knots).
Trigger points are defined as hyper-irritable spots located in a tight band of muscle that is painful when compressed, stretched, or activated.
Why are trigger points bad?
Locally, trigger points can promote and cause muscle weakness, altered muscle activity, muscle spasm, muscle imbalance, and muscle irritability.
On a global scale, affecting the whole body, trigger points can reduce the body’s pain threshold and allow for non-painful stimulus to be perceived as pain (called allodynia) or cause the body to have an overreaction to painful stimulus (called hyperalgesia).
This sounds bad, but don’t worry, trigger points can be easily treated with dry needling.
How common are trigger points?
Trigger points are one of the most common and often overlooked causes of pain.
Trigger points may occur in the absence of other medical issues but may also be associated with other underlying conditions.
How does dry needling work?
Trigger point dry needling is performed by using a thin monofilament needle that is inserted directly into the muscle at the site of the trigger point.
The needle is used to elicit a local twitch response, which is an involuntary twitching of the muscle. This twitch response is usually the goal of dry needling and represents the elimination of a trigger point.
The amount of dry needling needed to eliminate pain and improve function is based on a case-by-case basis. No two people are the same and each treatment plan needs to be individualized.
Dry needling is effective!
Numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of trigger point dry needling on reducing local and global muscle pain and sensitivity as well as improving muscle strength, muscle activity, and muscle balance.
Dry needling is even more effective when performed by a skilled clinician. At GOfit we regularly see patient’s who have gone to other providers and tell us that dry needling “didn’t work” for them. Unfortunately it wasn’t the procedure that didn’t work, it was the person doing it. Dry needling is an art just as much as it is a science, you need an expert to get the best results. We are the experts.
Who can benefit from dry needling?
Anyone experiencing pain that is either being caused or perpetuated by trigger points can benefit from dry needling.
Pain caused by trigger points is usually experienced as diffuse aching, or tightness, and can also be described as a spasm in more acute cases.
Pain experienced from trigger points tends to be more pronounced when the muscle is at rest. Sometimes pain from trigger points have a “warm up” affect where things will feel better with a little activity.
Pain from trigger points can also be inconsistent. Some days the pain can be worse, some days the pain can be better and it’s hard for people to put a finger on what activity makes it worse.
Trigger points can also be asymptomatic where they don’t cause pain but cause muscle tightness and weakness and contribute to movement dysfunction throughout the body.
At GOfit Physical Therapy, we perform a complete examination that includes the evaluation of trigger points that may be causing or contributing to your pain.
We use dry needling as a part of a well-rounded physical therapy treatment plan.