Category: Journal Club

JOURNAL CLUB – DRY NEEDLING ON CONTRACTILE PROPERTIES OF SPASTIC MUSCLES POST-STROKE

EFFECTS OF DRY NEEDLING (DNHS TECHNIQUE) ON THE CONTRACTILE PROPERTIES OF SPASTIC MUSCLES IN A PATIENT WITH STROKE: A CASE REPORT – Free full text available here – Calvo, S., Quintero, I., & Herrero, P. (2016). Effects of dry needling (DNHS technique) on the contractile properties of spastic muscles in a patient with stroke: a… Read More JOURNAL CLUB – DRY NEEDLING ON CONTRACTILE PROPERTIES OF SPASTIC MUSCLES POST-STROKE

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When to treat segmentally – a 2-Minute Dry Needling Tip

As a dry needling clinician and educator acknowledging my own education, practical experience, and ultimately my own biases – I’ll try so present this as neutral as possible.  Because like many questions on application and dosage, the answer to this question is “it depends”.  Depending heavily on our appraisal, expertise, and critical thinking as an… Read More When to treat segmentally – a 2-Minute Dry Needling Tip

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Dry Needling Digest: Journal Club for Dry Needling Clinicians Part II

  Well, CSM has come and gone – a great week of collaboration, networking, education, and camaraderie with fellow PTs, faculty, and students.  My partialities quite obviously known, it is fascinating to reflect on the conference and really the status of dry needling and physical therapy nationwide.  States becoming battlegrounds over the technique with some… Read More Dry Needling Digest: Journal Club for Dry Needling Clinicians Part II

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#DryNeedling tip from @DPTwithNeedles – 4 reasons to consider stim

One of the more common questions on our courses is – “when do I use e-stim with dry needling?”. A fair question, because if you feel dry needling is infantile in terms of clinical research, then use and understanding of intramuscular electrical stim is embryonic. That being said, there has been a dramatic shift towards… Read More #DryNeedling tip from @DPTwithNeedles – 4 reasons to consider stim

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Dry Needling Digest: Journal Club for Dry Needling Clinicians Part I

The therapeutic mechanisms of dry needling are still relatively unknown, and this bothers some people.  You’ll hear proposed benefits ranging from lengthening mechanically shortened sarcomeres, to decreasing ascending nocioception, to eliciting local tissue changes at an ischemic triggerpoint, to a complete neuromuscular reset at the cortical and CNS level.  You’ll also find similar variance in… Read More Dry Needling Digest: Journal Club for Dry Needling Clinicians Part I

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