What can you expect from dry needling?

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When you have a sudden injury, it is very painful, and the timeline is within thirty days from the injury.  The amount of sessions that would be need would be less, because there is hope that there is no permanent damage or joint changes. So maybe an expected session protocol would be 1-2 times a week for a few weeks.  

The first session would provide significant pain relief, but other sessions maybe needed to feel your best to address the underlying trauma to the body.  

Healing is not linear, you may feel better, then after a treatment you might not feel such a significant improvement, but improvement is being made. Bones, muscles, surrounding tissue, and soft structures most likely have damage and have different healing times.

When you have a chronic injury, that means that the injury didn't heal within the thirty days.  If the injury has been longer than six months, then there are changes to the brain and how your body interprets pain. 

The number of sessions that would be need would be more than a recent injury. When you are in pain your body supports the injury.  That leads to muscle stretching and shortening to project the joint.  It can also lead to permanent joint and soft tissue changes.  

How many sessions that you would need depends on what else you are doing for this injury.  Expected session protocol would be 1-2 times a week for a month or longer to make permanent changes to your body and neuromuscular system.  

The first session would provide significant pain relief, but other sessions maybe needed to feel your best to address the underlying trauma to the body.  

Healing is not linear, you may feel better, then after a treatment you might not feel such a significant improvement, but improvement is being made. Bones, muscles, surrounding tissue, and soft structures most likely have damage and have different healing times.

Facial rejuvenation is as much for balancing the muscles of the face with the benefits that are for everyone who gets needles.  Each needle stimulates collagen, improves blood flow, reduces fluid stagnation, and leads normalized muscle movements. 

The areas that are addressed are the muscles around the mouth the TMJ, the eyebrows, and the cheeks.

The typical protocol for maximal benefits is to be treated twice a week for five weeks.  However, if you feel that you look and feel your best you can stop at any time.

The Vagas nerve contributes to the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn reflex.  When it is on over drive and it can contribute to pain, and an overtaxed nervous system.  When the Vagas Nerve has been on over drive you can find yourself not able to sleep, with gastrointestinal upset, nervousness, and anxiety.

Dry needling can directly place a needle to relax the nervous system.  It can break the overactive cycle and help you sleep better, deal with stress, and reduce anxiety.

You will notice that you feel calmer after this session, most people report sleeping better, and feeling calmer.  

A protocol for this therapy is once a week till you are better able to manage your stress or situation.  Or if you have very significant stress, you can come 1-2 a week for a half hour until you feel you can better regulate your nervous system.  Some people come for maintenace visits once a month or every other week.

Scars hold emotions, whether you received the scar from an accident, a surgery, or just from everyday life.  They can remind you of something horrible that happened.  They can remind you of some failing of your body.  Or they can remind you of when you were able to live again.  Scars are not just about your skin having a flaw.

However, scars can go very deep in the body.  They can restrict movement of muscles, joints, or even fluid.  They can restrict digestion, lead to pain that area or other parts of your body, or even breathing.

If you are a candidate for scar therapy, it does take a few sessions to get the maximum benefit.  I find that four sessions are needed to have significant permanent changes to the soft tissue around the scar, and the scar itself.

With so many changes going on in our bodies one day we are stressed, one day we feel tired, and some days our joints just ache.  How can dry needling help with this?  The Vagas Nerve would be addressed and there are herbal supports that I have made especially for this time in a woman's life.

By breaking the stress cycle, improving sleep, and supporting the body with herbs, you will be able to handle this transition in your life better.