"Dry Needling Explained:
Dry Needling is a Western term used to describe an over 2,000 year old style of acupuncture.
-What's called dry needling was first described in China's earliest medical text, the ‘Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic,’ it describes using tender or painful points, including trigger/motor points to rotate, lift and thrust needles causing muscle contractions.
- Needling painful points is one of acupuncture's earliest forms of point selection. China's preeminent physician, Sun Si-Miao (581-682 C.E.), called these points "ashi's." Any ashi point is technically an acupuncture point as acupuncture comprises more than acupuncture points on the 12 meridians. Many of the trigger/motor points are also meridian acupuncture points.
-A treatment for pain/injury by a licensed acupuncturist includes formal diagnosis using acupuncture meridian points plus ashi and trigger/motor points making acupuncture treatments personalized and full body focused including organ function, fluid physiology and not just needling into pain/dysfunction.
-Acupuncture School is a 4 year full-time medical masters degree averaging 3,500 hours, similar Bio-Science classes to Western Medical School, in-depth mastery of Chinese Medicine, National Board Licensing exams and doctorates.
-Western research into acupuncture shows it restores blood flow, modulates fluid physiology, innervates nerves and fascia, stimulates changes in the release of immunological modulators, neurotransmitters, hormones and is a science based medicine."
-Dr. Jason Pyeatt