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The debate about Acupuncture and Dry-Needling can be quite heated and we believe can be explained quite easily. Most people do not realize there are many systems of acupuncture with various focusses. Just like art, law, and the many specializations within Western medicine. Unquestionably, whether called Orthopedic Acupuncture or Dry Needling, these approaches have gained wide acceptance and proven to be extremely effective in the hand of a properly trained provider.
Orthopedic acupuncture is a specialty within acupuncture where the needle insertion is focussed on treating muscular-skeletal issues, joint movement patterns and addressing what has commonly become referred to as trigger points. The most rudimentary version of “Dry Needling” is that it is based on inserting needles based on the modern Western understanding of anatomy and physiology.
Unfortunately, other professions who have tried to co-opt this style of acupuncture have attempted to market it as something different than acupuncture. Like most politics- some people may be misled because they are not well educated in the subjects. We know better than to lump all the Physical Therapists into the same category as the industrial insurance mills who rush patients thru the same exercises to their assistants 2-3x/week and not every Chiropractor spends 5 minutes with each client providing the same 5 adjustments to every patient. Every provider sets its own bar on their level of dedication and training. We are confident in the skills and systems we train in to be amongst the best available.
Well trained providers will move beyond simply needling the sore spots or trigger points. Some providers can needle motor points, which cause the muscle to twitch- a motor point is the junction between where a nerve decussates and triggers the muscle to contract via depolarization.
Another way of looking at it is that the needle can reach things that other tools cannot since it is invasive and can go into the body and between small spaces. Direct needling can target scar tissue and adhesions releasing spasms and locked up structures in just a few visits. There is now a trend of other providers to use electric stimulation.
Electroacupuncture
Acupuncturists have used electric stimulation since the early 1950s to push electrons into the fascial lines and create different responses from the body. Nowadays, we can observe the effects that are alternating the waveform or frequency of stimulation has on the body’s nervous system by eliciting various neurotransmitters. Electroacupuncture can be used to strengthen, fatigue, reset, or promote circulation around muscles. One might think of it as helping to reset the nerve-motor junction and turn on inhibited structures. Electroacupuncture medicine goes far deeper than this in regards to effects on the entire body, but we shall limit the scope of its discussion to orthopedics for now.
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Michael Woodworth has been performing Orthopedic acupuncture of motor points, trigger points, scar tissue and resetting inhibited muscles and motor control patterns every day for over 15 years, following 5 years of formal education.
We have treated many people who had experienced some style of “dry-needling” only to have them comment on how much more effective our techniques are. We are anatomically trained thru our cadaver labs, ART certifications, countless hours of orthopedic acupuncture and sports medicine courses. What’s unique is our ability to combine this approach with the diagnostics of SFMA/FMS systems and the palpation/treatment of Active Release Techniques (ART). The end goal is clinical excellence and results that bring us the referrals of our clients.
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