DRY NEEDLING is helping long term tendonitis and muscle scar tissue/adhesions

Trigger points (small knots), scar tissue and hard tendons left this way for a long time will not heal from pills of any type, since the tissues are now in a physically altered state. Manually therapy (sustained pressure) is the general method to separate and re-align stuck tissue fibers. Its very time consuming and costly if you rely on others for this service. I have wrote many posts in the past on doing this your self. This works for most people, but trouble areas do not always heal 100%.

Enter the new therapy I have just begun to use for stubborn trigger knots, hard tendons ect - its called DRY NEEDLING done by PT's and covered as part of the therapy visit.

Its sticking a needle 3/8 to 3/4 inch into the muscle knot for only a couple seconds, the muscleis goes into spasm and then releases. The next day you feel a little better, and slowly heal the following weeks. It seems to work for tendons also. Time will tell if it lasts. Its not night and day, but it does do something positive.

When you google this, acupuncturist WILL put this down. Because it invades in "their" territory, and they say PT's dont get enough training to do this safe since the needle goes in deeper than acupuncture. Well, you dont stick needles near the lungs , duh!!

Conventional medicine discovered this simple therapy as a combination of manual trigger point release and acupuncture (but way quicker, deeper and one needle at a time). And since its practiced by conventional medicine as a PT therapy, most ins covers it which further aggravates acupuncturists.

Its painful for a couple seconds, feels weird, spasms, needle drawn out, then loosens up for the following days to weeks as it heals.

Only problem is I could have this done almost all over. But, there are certain places you cant have needles stuck in you, so you cant do this all over.

The better you get, the more better you want to get. Feeling better is addictive after 25-30 years of pain. My hip and shoulder are one step "free-er", my foot has not locked up after this one month ago.

I imagine it could take another year for these issues to heal after the tension is released- remember I've been this way in some areas 25-30 years, so my body technically adapted irregularly to it. Like a tree growing through a fence, remove the fence, branch is still crooked, but free to grow straighter in the future.

AWESOME... very interesting. Glad you are making progress with this. I turned a corner when I started on Ketoconazole again with the new abx I started - muscle pain has lessened quite a bit so there was some lingering yeast/fungal issue for me (I had gone off antifungals for awhile).

Going to bookmark this because muscle fatigue is also a lingering issue for me - I am scared that it was caused by the levofloxacin I took... which could mean it's permanent damage. Fingers crossed that I'm wrong.

Keep us up to date, astro.

-p

"Someone here once thought they were correcting me by saying big joint issues had nothing to do with adjacent muscles. Wrong! They have a LOT too do with adjacent muscles since that's what they are attached to."

Of course they do....common sense...right?

My shoulder blade/shoulder along with my upper back muscles are all playing a part in my issues. Not just my frozen shoulder side, but the other side that was compensating for my weak side.
My physio has been great....my rom is so much better...just about completely now....and my strength on my frozen shoulder side is improving steadily...I almost feel normal.