Podiatry Services Bendigo
Dry Needling
Promoting lower limb healing and recovery.
What is Dry Needling?
Dry needling can be a valuable technique for addressing many different foot and lower limb concerns. This quick and relatively painless therapy involves inserting thin, single-use sterile needles into specific trigger points with the goal of alleviating pain, improving mobility, and promoting healing.
This soft tissue treatment requires extensive experience and a thorough knowledge of muscles and the relationships between them and surrounding elements, such as nerves and connective tissue. Our highly skilled therapists can offer this option as a standalone therapy or as an adjunct to our other management options for injuries or chronic health conditions.
If you are looking for a holistic form of treatment that may be used for a broad array of issues and goals, dry needling may be of interest and benefit. At Evolve Podiatry Bendigo, we can discuss with you the advantages of this therapy, if it may be suitable for you, and how it may fit into your health care treatment.
How Does Dry Needling Work?
Dry needling is a non-pharmacological and minimally invasive approach in which specialised needles create a tiny ‘lesion’ in the soft tissue of a targeted area, which is referred to as the trigger point in relation to your problem. This sends your body a message that stimulates the repair of the ‘lesion’. This reaction, known as the ‘twitch response’, encourages blood flow, inflammation reduction, and muscle relaxation to promote overall healing in the affected area.
Each needle is inserted into or over the tension in muscles, tendons, ligaments, or fascia, carefully manipulated, and then removed after a beneficial length of time. This generally ranges from a few seconds to about twenty minutes, depending on the concern.
Dry needling may support the healing of a wide variety of injuries, concerns, or health conditions, encouraging pain relief and improved functionality.
Benefits of Dry Needling
One of the key advantages of dry needling is its ability to directly target and deactivate trigger points, which are often the source of pain and dysfunction in musculoskeletal conditions. By releasing tension and promoting muscle relaxation, dry needling may provide pain relief and restore normal function.
Dry needling may be particularly helpful in treating conditions such as plantar fasciitis, achilles tendinitis, shin splints, chronic pain, sports injuries, muscle spasms, foot pain, heel pain, and myofascial pain syndrome. It may complement other therapeutic interventions such as physical therapy or chiropractic care, enhancing their potential benefits and accelerating the healing process.
Your Dry Needling Questions Answered
This form of therapy is relatively pain-free. Some people experience a small amount of discomfort during or after the session, such as a brief cramp-like contraction, particularly if the affected area is especially tight or sensitive, but this is typically short-lived and minimal. Many people do not feel any uncomfortable sensations. There may be a small amount of bleeding or bruising at the insertion site, but this is rare.
The length of time it takes before you may feel results will differ. Many people experience immediate relief from pain and muscle tension, while others notice improvement about two days later. Depending on your requirements, goals, and other treatments, you may find one session provides you adequate relief, or you may find more long-term results after a few sessions.
We provide Dry Needling services to people in Bendigo and across key suburbs including:
Why Visit Evolve Podiatry Bendigo for Dry Needling?
We are proud to provide our patients with a variety of options for holistic treatment that may improve comfort, functionality, and overall well-being. Offering dry needling as a service means our highly experienced therapists aim to elevate your care with this soft tissue treatment.
When it comes to your podiatry-related concerns, visiting Evolve Podiatry Bendigo for treatment such as dry needling therapy may be highly beneficial. Our experienced practitioners utilise this technique to address various foot and lower limb issues, aiming to provide pain relief, improve mobility, and accelerate healing, promoting your overall recovery.
Whether dry needling is used as the sole form of treatment or as part of a wider program, it has the potential of bringing you relief and helping you reach your goals.
Embrace the Potential of Dry Needling
Taking advantage of our dry needling service for feet and lower limb issues may enhance your quality of life as these problems may significantly impact your daily activities, mobility, and quality of life if left untreated. By targeting trigger points and releasing muscle tension with dry needling, we aim to help to encourage healing for normal function and reduced pain, which may translate into improved performance in sports, daily activities, and work-related tasks.
If you are experiencing discomfort or reduced mobility due to foot or lower limb concerns, please contact our friendly team to organise an initial consultation in which we will assess your suitability and develop an individualised treatment plan.
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